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If only we could all fall asleep this way... the world would be a better place. This could quite possibly be one of the cutest freaking things I have ever seen. Just looking at this makes me sleepy. The only thing that could possibly make this a better nap is if dogs could pur. Get on that dogs, time to step up your purring game.
The satirical website The Onion announced that North Korean leader King Jong-un had been named the Sexiest Man Alive. The story was picked up and reported in earnest in China's largest newspaper, The People's Daily. It was also republished in The Korea Times. However, it was far from the first time that Onion stories were mistaken as fact. The Daily Beast runs down nine stories of the same thing happening to various politicians, ESPN, and even the New York Times. Link
Kids, you don't understand what it was like in the old days. We didn't have flash drives. We had to carry around these huge memory storage disks that had just a tiny fraction of the capacity of your USB doohickeys.
Look at this one. Neulant van Exel, a design team in Berlin, turned it into a coffee table. They've ripped out the guts so that you can access interior storage space by pushing the shutter open.
At 1200 frames per second, the first minute of this video only covers one second of the cheetah's run! Greg Wilson shot high-speed footage of five cheetahs from the Cincinnati Zoo, including the world-speed-record-holder Sarah, over three days to get this video. They ran at up to 60 miles per hour, so I would imagine the most difficult part would be keeping the cat toy ahead of them. Read more about cheetahs at National Geographic. Link -via Metafilter
With these tasty Millennium Falcon truffles, you certainly can because these babies' have a few surprises left in them, sweetheart.
In 1970, Bill Baxley, the new Attorney General of the State of Alabama, reopened the investigation of the 1963 bombing of a church in which four little African-American girls died. For doing so, he received death threats from the Klan and similar organizations. Baxley's response to one was short and to the point.
Link | Photo: Francis Buckley
This little guy was saved from a fur farm when he was just a kit, ever since he was a youngster, his favorite snack has been marshmallows -although he only gets them here and there because they are pretty much pure sugar.
If you think memes are too lowbrow, then perhaps you'll enjoy this Tard the Grumpy Cat fan art by Gaston Zubeldia.
Billboards are there to sell you things, but artist Stephen Glassman has another purpose in mind: art. He's aiming to turn billboards in Los Angeles into giant planters filled with bamboo. But first, he has to figure out how to water the thing:
Making the idea work could be tricky. Russell Fortmeyer, an engineer with Arup who has been assisting on the project, said they've even talked of mining moisture from the air to water the bamboo. Then there's the question of how much the installation would weigh — and whether the billboard could support the weight. They want to avoid restructuring of the billboard frame, which could be costly.
David Lara, spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, said his department would need to consult with the city attorney's office before approving a permit for such a project. Sign-offs from fire and planning authorities might also be necessary, Lara said.
Longtime billboard opponent Dennis Hathaway said he would rather see a bamboo garden than advertising. "But I'm not sure how long it would last. At some point that billboard is going to be a McDonald's ad again."
Corina Knoll of the Los Angeles Times has the full story: Link
Those crazy rocket scientists! They have tons of very expensive high-tech equipment and what do they do? No they didn't cook turkeys with it, but they could if they needed to. Gizmodo asked NASA engineers how they would go about using their work machinery to cook a Thanksgiving turkey, and they came up with four rather strange methods. Read about each one, illustrated. Then when you're stuck on planet X over the holidays, you'll know what to do. Link
(Image credit: Josh McKible)
Surrealist filmmaker David Lynch must have plans for the Thanksgiving holiday, and we would guess those would be odd plans. Ann Friedman charted her assumptions in a pie chart. Mmmm, pie. Link -via Nag on the Lake
As contestants on a game show that has video producers competing against each other, the team of Travis Kurtz and Matin Atrushi had 72 hours to make a funny video, and this is the finished product.
We made this video for a TV show called "Viral Video Showdown" on SyFy Channel (Episode "Such a Cliche"). We had 72 hours to come up with an idea based on: 1.) action 2.) a cliche and 3.) the idiom "Between a rock and a hard place" and then write, shoot, edit and deliver a final product. We hope you enjoy it.
The episode featuring the making of this video will air this Tuesday. -Thanks, Travis!
Government artists knew what would grab attention for China's aerospace research program. Babies! Puppies and kittens! Adorable smiling faces! See more of these posters from the 1960s through the 1980s at Retronaut. Link -via Flavorwire
Doktor A. News wants to congratulate you on gaining immortality. The directions are as follows.
1. Remove strap and leads from the storage drawer.
2. Place electrodes against forehead and tighten strap.
3. Attach bulldog clips to terminals in the jaw.
4. Set over-ride timer to desired duration.
5. Crank the main handle to build electrical charge.
6. Close the main switch to engage the electrical flow.
7. Increase the electrical voltage using dial.
8. Wait until your Asphyx manifests within the tube.
9. Shut off charge to electrodes using the main switch.
10. Transfer the Asphyx to a long term containment device.
11. Congratulations you have gained immortality.
Well that was easy and not the least bit dangerous. This was created by toy maker Doktor A and took nearly 2 years to finish. His inspiration was from the 1972 film The Asphyx.
The Asphyx appears in Greek myths as an angel of death like deity who appears at the moment of demise to seek release from it’s eternal pain by possessing the dying soul of its victim. This piece is directly drawing on the iteration of the Asphyx as seen in the 1972 British horror film starring Robert Stephens and Robert Powell and imagines what may have come to pass with the success of Sir Hugo Cunningham’s experiments in trapping an Asphyx, if the events of the film had not taken such a terrible turn for the worst.
This guy is a toy maker, where were these toys when I was growing up? My parents messed up, I never had anything nearly this cool.
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