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Just enjoy this bit of 30-second silliness from Gentleman Scholar titled "Count on Me." Wonderful! Hit play or go to Link [vimeo]
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German photographer Jakob Wagner added a bit of sci-fi flair to nightscape photographs of the world's largest cities in his art series Urban Zoom.
Photo: Provenance unknown Monika Tuchowska
... and don't go extinct!
Update: This picture is by Monika Tuchowska, who has a list of other illustrated puns on the DeviantART page. -Thanks, KellyBB!
Now that's an old timey National Geographic magazine to treasure forever! Artist Glen Brogan (previously on Neatorama) imagined how Indiana Jones' esteemed father, professor Henry Walton Jones, Sr., would look like gracing the cover of National Geographic in the late 1930s.
Via Popped Culture
YouTuber MegaBella917 explains how her dog Bella eats:
This is our cute dog Bella. She was diagnosed with congenital megaesophagus soon after we found her at 4 months old. Megaesophagus means that her esophagus is enlarged and lacks the muscle mobility to swallow food while horizontal. This is her "Baileys Chair," which she needs sit in while eating and for 10 minutes after she eats. She eats soft dog food with a little water mixed in. She is now seven months old and doing great!
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Craig of Victims of Circumsolar webcomic explains the unfair judgments we heap onto people simply by their choice of breakfast: Link
Being dead at one's own funeral is not unusual, but waking up at one's own funeral after being mistaken for dead, then actually dying is definitely unusual:
Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, was mistakenly declared deceased by doctors [...] But she later woke up - in a coffin surrounded by sobbing relatives. She started screaming after realizing she was about to be buried alive.
Mukhametzyanov, a resident of Kazan, was rushed back to the hospital where she was declared dead -- this time for real.
From the NY Daily News: Link
It's a crime solved ... by a fart! When a policeman kept on farting in a police car, his colleagues were forced to roll down the window to escape the smell. But instead of fresh air, the waft of marijuana drifted in.
Metro has the story:
‘All three officers’ suspicions were raised and they left the car to get some fresh air and find the cause of the cannabis smell.
‘Imagine the surprise on the faces of the occupants of the house further along the road when the officers, following their noses, found a cannabis factory with a crop worth £12,000.’
Seven people at the property in Leicester were arrested.
Oh, and the cop who kept on farting? Metro explains:
The officer with the wind problem had been on a high-protein diet after taking up body building.
Photo: @lizkaster - via KFnet in T-Town
Crossing the street can be quite dangerous, so when the city of Tacoma, Washington, didn't do anything to make it safer for pedestrians, vigilantes took matters into their own hands and painted rogue crosswalks and a bike lane.
According to Lewis Kamb of The Nws Tribune:
Some business owners and residents in the burgeoning neighborhood just north of City Hall said the unauthorized crosswalk — which unidentified parties painted on the west side of St. Helens Avenue between Sixth Avenue and Baker Street — illustrates a growing frustration with the city.
“We have a lot of cars just blowing through here, and we’re concerned,” said Morgan Alexander, owner of the nearby Amocat Café. “We actually asked the city to take some action. But they really haven’t done anything.”
Well, the accusation that the City wasn't doing anything is not technically correct: they sprang into action ... and erased the rogue crosswalks (which cost the city thousands of dollars in public works). They've also threatened to pursue legal action against this form of "vandalism." Word on the street is that they're analyzing paint chips and such.
But according to RR Anderson of The Tacomic, the vigilante crosswalk bandit, whoever he is, is not going to let the city walk all over him:
The game of LIFE is about to get larger - much larger. Life-sized, in fact!
The island of Yoron in Japan will host a life-size version of LIFE board game, where players will shuttle across the island in a bus to play along:
As 2013 marks the 45th anniversary of the Game of Life in Japan, one island has decided to celebrate by turning the entire place into one big Game of Life board complete with spinners and play money.
The life-sized Game of Life will be held from 20 July to 16 September on Yoron Island located just North of Okinawa. The impetus for this plan was the fact that the island is shaped like that hilly part of the game board where the spinner sits.
Throughout these summer months, players will be given a map showing the game squares and an allotment of fake money like that used in the game. The players will then spin one of four wheels located around the island and proceed to that spot. At the end of the game, any play money left over can be converted into gift certificates.
When is a hot dog, a hot dog? When the law says so!
When hot-dog cart owners are being threatened by closure by health inspectors, the Assembly Health Committee in California came up with the legal definition of a hot dog to help them out:
The proposed change to state health laws spells it out: "'Hot dog' means a whole, cured, cooked sausage that is skinless or stuffed in a casing that may be known as a frankfurter, frank, furter, wiener, red hot, Vienna, bologna, garlic bologna or knockwurst and that may be served in a bun or roll." [...]
The definition is needed so health departments can hold hot-dog vendors, who boil already cooked wieners, to a less-stringent sanitation standard than food stands that cook raw foods, such as bratwurst, said Justin Malan of the California Assn. of Environmental Health Administrators.
Marc Lifsher of the Los Angeles Times explains: Link
Well, at least they didn't define watermelon as a vegetable or declare pi as 3.
Russian photographer Denis Budko captured these stunning images of what happened when melting snow on the Mutnovsky volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, revealed an otherworldly snow tunnel.
Think you're pretty good at air hockey? Not as good as this robot! Researchers at the Namiki Lab in Chiba University, Japan, have created an unbeatable robot that plays air hockey:
How is it unbeatable? Think of it this way – the robot is tracking the game at a crazy rate of 500 frames per second. This translates to, from the robot’s point of view, the human opponent moving at a laughably slow pace, like the robot seeing the game in a Matrix-style bullet-time.
Apart from that, the computer also uses 3 layers of detection and action systems, using the data from the cameras to decide whether it should hit the puck, defend the goal, or stay still. This system of analyzing data is called Motion Pattern Histogram (MPH). The robot uses this data to estimate whether its opponent is playing aggressively or defensively. Over the course of a game, the robot can detect these MPHs in real-time and compare them with reference patterns to help it figure out what you’re doing.
John Hofilena of Japan Daily Press covered the sad demise of humanity's table hockey dominance: Link
So this is what happens when astronomy and advertising collide: Luna Corona is a clever billboard by Cramer-Krasselt ad agency for Corona beer. The billboard, located in Manhattan, lets the Moon play the role of a wedge of lime.
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