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Now THIS is Texas Poetry!

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via Pleated Jeans

Can't argue with that! This Sonic Drive-In fast food restaurant in Texas goes straight for the jugular (or is it stomach?) with this gem of a poem: "Roses are red / so is ketchup / Have a corndog."


Archery Tag Lets You Play Out Your Hunger Games Fantasy in Real Life (Without Killing Anyone)

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Photo: Agaton Strom / The New York Times

Move over, paintball! There's a new game in town and it's straight out of the "Hunger Games." Well, except that nobody dies and it looks like a lot of fun. Behold, archery tag, which is like dodgeball but with bows and arrows.

"The cool new weapon in media is a bow and arrow," said marketing consultant Peter Fermoselle to Stacey Anderson of The New York Times, "It's old fashioned. It brings a little more nobility to shooting someone."

Archery tag was invented by John Jackson of Instinct Archery, and the new sports was helped by the popularity of archery in pop culture phenomenons The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead. The game is similar to dodgeball: two teams of players scramble to collect arrows at the center of the arena, then proceed to shoot at each other from across the field with the foam-tipped arrows. A player is disqualified when hit by an arrow).

It certainly looks like fun! Check out the video clip below:

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You'd Never Guess the Technological Beast Hidden Inside This 19th Century Church

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All photos by courtesy of Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Build in the 19th century, Chapel Torre Giona is a stunning neo-romantic building that used to serve the Roman Catholic Church as the place of worship of the Collegi de Monges de l'Ascenció school of monks, but no longer.

Now, though the power within the former church is not ecclesiastical, it is no less fascinating: Chapel Torre Giona now houses one of the world's fastest supercomputers.

Meet MareNostrum (Latin for "Our Sea"), one of seven supercomputers in the Spanish Supercomputing Network and arguably the most architecturally beautiful. Set inside the chapel, the raw power of modern technology stand side by side with ancient collonades, Romanesque arches and ornately carved wooden doors.

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NeatoPicto Funny Pictures of the Day

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Downside to Being a Mountaintop Guru by Bizarro

Love funny pics? You're in luck: we've just updated our LOLpic blog NeatoPicto with over a dozen neat new funny pictures. Check it out:

Double Decker Couch in Real Life Dog Hides in Toys Just Like E.T. When Men Could Get Arrested for Bathing Topless Butterfly Strawberry
       
Mission Impossible Mouse How To Train Your Dragon Kite Caution: Do Not Swallow Clothes Hanger Sewer Grate Skelleton Graffiti


D-List X-Men by Lee Gatlin


Cleaning the Bed Sheet When Suddenly ... Dementor!


Seal is an Expert Fishmonger

Love funny pics? View tons more at NeatoPicto!


Cleaning the Bed Sheet when Suddenly ... Dementor!

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Redditor MuffinHatLP took a snapshot of his mom shaking out a sheet from the balcony, when - holy sheet! - suddenly a Dementor appears!


Seal is an Expert Fishmonger

Alex


via Arbroath

All sold out! You can't compete with a pinniped when it comes to selling fish at a local fishmarket. After all, it knows how to "seal" the deal!


Downside to Being a Mountaintop Guru

Alex

Once you reach the mountain top guru, what question would you ask him besides how to reset your router password?

Our pal Dan Piraro of Bizarro loves to use the mountaintop guru motif for "exploring the truths of human society," and this one nails it for all the anti-social Internet-addicted hermits out there.

I suppose another downside of being a such a technologically advanced guru is that you probably get asked often how to achieve the enlightened state of being connected to the Wi-Fi.

By the way, this Bizarro panel reminds me of the Internet Dream shirt from the NeatoShop!


D-List X-Men

Alex

Good news: You've got a super power just like the X-Men! Bad news: The super power you've got are of the kind drawn by Lee Gatlin here in his fantastic series D-List X-Men - via Pleated Jeans

I have to say, being the Magneto of condiment ain't half bad. Ain't half bad at all!

If you could have a (completely useless) super power, what would that be?


Double Decker Couch In Real Life

Alex


via Uber Humor

We wonder what Master Builder made this: Double Decker couch, like the one featured on The LEGO Movie:

Yes, you've probably seen it already: the double decker couch hails back from 2011, way before the LEGO Movie became reality.


These Superhero Pets Have One Super Power: To Make You Squee with Glee!

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Captain America Guinea Pig

Bad day today? Superhero hamster, guinea pig and chinchilla to the rescue! We dare you not to squee with joy after seeing these wonderful pets dressed up as superheroes, thanks to the fantastic felt costumes by Chez Marmota.

Take a look at more dressed up pets:


Robin Chinchilla


Bat Chinchilla

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Mechanical Objects With One and Only One Purpose: To Hold Themselves Up

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Cavity Mechanism #14 w/ Glass Dome (2014)

San Francisco-based artist Dan Grayber specializes in creating mechanical objects that are intricately designed for one thing and one thing only: "to compensate for the complications created by its own existence," which in this case is to hold themselves up.

And hold themselves up gracefully is exactly what they did. Take a look:


Cavity Mechanism #12 with Glass Dome (2013)

Grayber described the pieces as "counterweight driven mechanism that wedges itself into the side of a cavity (the glass dome in this case), suspending itself.


Display Case Mechanism #2 (2013)


Cavity Mechnism #13 w/ Glass Dome (2013)

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Dog Hides in Toys Just Like E.T.

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Imgur user Stink3ye posted this pic of his dog hiding amongst the toys from his one-year-old who pulls his ears.

It must've seen ET!

via Cheezburger


When Men Could Get Arrested For Going Topless on Public Beaches

Alex

It was a different world then! This LIFE Magazine pictorial from July 18, 1938 is titled "Men Now Bathe Without Tops On Many Public Beaches":

In Europe and on the West Coast topless bathing for men has long been no novelty on public as well as private beaches. But in the more inhibited East a male costume consisting solely of trunks was, until just recently, cause for arrest on almost all public beaches and raised eyebrows on many a private one.

At Atlantic City topless bathing suits are still forbidden, and only this year has Long Island's ultrademocratic Long Beach allowed men to air their backs and chests. This trend which originated on the French Riviera has seriously distressed manufacturers who claim there is little field for originality of design in trunks. For proof of their contention, see Long Beach pictures below.


Butterfly Strawberry

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Genetic engineering has gone too far! Just kidding - redditor sicknickmondo found this strawberry that looks just like a butterfly.


Mission Impossible Mouse

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Redditor sharkyshark7 found this special ops mouse infiltrating his house for some cheese. Either that or Tom Cruise is a lot smaller in real life.


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