๐น You've undoubtedly heard of AI-generated images, where surprisingly life-like images are generated from text descriptions by AI tools. Well, it didn't take long for the ghost (demon?) in the machine to start showing its face. Meet Loab, an AI-generated demon that spontaneously emerged and now shows up again and again in many of the generated images.
๐ช That escalated quickly! In Cรฅrven Der Pรผmpkรฎn, the Swedish Chef used ever-increasingly violent weapons to carve two Jack-O-Lanterns. LOL! Now I want to carve a pumpkin with a Viking battle axe!
Love cute animals? We've got them over at Supa Fluffy:
๐ฆ This raccoon channeled his inner Winnie-the-Pooh and got his head stuck in a peanut butter jar. Thankfully there were some really nice humans that got him out of that sticky situation!
๐ต "If you're happy and you know it, overthink it." The Holderness Family sings the anthem of people who always overthink things. Here's The Over-Thinking Song.
๐ฆฟ Sure, you can still outrun the world's fastest bipedal robot right now, but you know how technology improves by leaps and bounds. By the time the Robocalypse happen, surely the bots can easily catch you when you try to run away.
๐ What does an engineer do when he's in charge of decorating for Halloween? Wild Bill Knowles has the answer: make a diorama of skeletons roasting a Chevy S-10 pickup truck!
๐ธ๏ธ If that's too involved for you lazy Halloween decorators, try this one: how to make Easy Giant Halloween Spiderwebs (or simply don't clean for oh, a decade or two, and let natural spiderwebs accumulate instead).
๐บ Rebellious skateboarders will openly flaunt pandemic restrictions during the lockdown, but roller skaters are much more devious: they organize Secret Roller Discos where they gather every week to roller skate and hang out.
The world's largest corn maze, located the Richardson Adventure Farm in Spring Grove, Illinois, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Agent 007 of Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond.
The maze displays the images of (almost) all James Bond actors - Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig - as well as other details from the movie, including the gun barrel, an Aston Martin DB5 car and the Casino de Monte-Carlo.
The "James Corn" (hah) maze was created by planting corn using GPS-equipped tractors, which automatically dropped seeds according to certain patterns. After the seed sprouted into corn plants, they get a maze with 10 miles of trail winding through 28 acres of live corn.
The James Bond corn maze is open to the public from September 10 to October 30, 2022. Besides getting lost in the maze, visitors can also participate in pumpkin picking, zip lines and other activities.
๐ก๏ธ Lantern shield is definitely one of the weirdest weapons ever invented. Yes, it's a shield, but that's not all: it's also a metal gauntlet with an integrated sword, retractable blade, central spike and ... a lantern!
๐จ Bob Ross of The Joy of Painting didn't make mistakes, just happy accidents but this Bob Ross of War is all about the joy of warfare. Pro-tip: When he says, "Let's get crazy", run away.
๐ฅ You probably have no hope of living like a royal, but there's one royal thing you can do in the kitchen: bake the Queen's own Royal Scottish pancakes by following her recipe.
๐บ Lastly, what do you get when you make a cat the lead singer of a heavy metal band? Cattera, of course, and it's a-meow-zing!
Uh oh, we've got some bad news if you love sriracha: a hot chili sauce shortage is looming.
Huy Fong Foods Inc, the maker of the beloved hot sauce, has suspended production of the Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, Chili Garlic and Sambal Oelek because they ran out of chili (they use about 50,000 tons of chili every year).
"Several spiraling events, including unexpected crop failure from the spring chili harvest," said the company as reported by San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
A recent letter sent by the company to its vendors advised them "not promise any products to your customers unless you have the product in stock."
BRB! Going to the supermarket to hoard me some Sriracha (doesn't this seem just like the good ol' days of the pandemic?)
Sick and tired of playing Wordle? Here's something that may replace that daily word game obsession: Cell Tower by software developer Andrew Taylor.
It's a game of finding hidden words in a stack of random letters. You may immediately see certain words in all of those letters ... but the way to solve the game is to utilize ALL of the letters to make words, not just some letters.
Like Wordle, there's a Cell Tower game released daily. Try to see if you can solve it without asking for a hint (which will make the game not count towards your streak).
It's harder than it looks, but it's quite a bit of fun!
This sea lion named Wendy sure acts like she owns the joint. First she waddles into a luxury hotel's pool, swims a bit, then kicks a man out of his very own deck chair to do a little sunbathing!
Early in Nike's history, the company was in a fight for its life against a crushingly large tariff assessment. So what's a scrappy little sneaker company to do? Phil Knight revealed the story of how Nike actually produced its own counterfeit Nike shoes called The One Line to fight the US government ... and won!
"A Young Boy Running at Midnight" is a touching story of a journalist who came across a teen running at midnight, after he got off work at a local McDonald's in the northern Indian city of Noida near New Delhi. But why did the young man run? You'll never guess the reason.
This biblically accurate Clippy is an angelic Microsoft Office Assistant drawn by illustrator Evangeline Gallagher.
Thousand-year-old conical vessels dug up in Jerusalem turned out to be ancient hand grenades used against the Crusaders and perhaps also against the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Usually, when you need to reach something a bit too high and all you've got is a chair, well, you stand on the chair like it's a stepladder. Apparently that inspired the creation of this artful Stepladder Chair: it transforms from a regular kitchen chair into a three-step staircase though at $1,800 a piece, you could presumably buy a chair and an actual stepladder instead, or simply hire a butler to do your bidding.
Concert at the cemetery is a touching event by the Last Words Legacy Project to help people heal.
Why aren't they wearing capes? Looks like anyone can be a Bat in the Hat in Mana-hatta! This funny What We Do in the Shadows-inspired t-shirt design is by indie artist Nemons.
๐ Some old houses have a tiny door that opens to the outside of the kitchen. Whatever could it be for? Find out the reason behind this mysterious door, as well as many other bygone features found in older homes that would confound modern homeowners.
๐ค Computer are good at things that can be done by brute force, but jobs that require creativity are safe from artificial intelligence. Right? Well, perhaps it's time to think again: new advancement in AI brings us DALL-E 2 which can create realistic images from simple text descriptions.
Tell it to draw "teddy bears mixing sparkling chemical as mad scientists in a steampunk style" - and you'll get that image above. The technology is so good, it's scary.
๐ฒ When Yolanda Frontany and her husband bought this old house, she didn't realize that she'd find herself owning a piece of history. It turns out that her house was the one where Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson invented Dungeons & Dragons! But after taking critical hits from the elements for 100 years, the old house is in dire need of repairs, and Frontany has started a crowdfunding campaign to save it. Here's The Quest to Preserve the Birthplace of Dungeons & Dragons | Indiegogo campaign.
๐ฃ During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Union soldiers were loading a canon when a Confederate shell hit the canon's muzzle and plugged it up! It's the perfect shot.
โ๏ธ Need a place for your upcoming event? Don't rent a boring dance hall for your party or wedding - rent Mexico's presidential jet instead! After more than 3 years failing to sell the airplane (it's too expensive to reconfigure into a typical passenger jet), current Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador has decided to rent it out for special events.
๐บ We all want to get away from our family sometimes, but this Chinese man has been living in the Beijing Airport for 14 years to get away from his family. He said that he had a falling out with his family, who wanted him to quite smoking and drinking but he'd rather live in an airport than do either.
Image: Biro Humas KLHK
๐ง Dyson's new air-purifier and noise-cancelling headphones combo named Dyson Zone looks like it came straight out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. The company made the product launch announcement dangerously close to April 1 and had to confirm that it's actually not an April's Fool joke.
๐ฆ Scientists asked participants to rate pictures of people for attractiveness and found something interesting: people infected with "mind-altering" toxoplasmosis are more attractive! So, what's going on? Does the parasite Toxoplasma gondii change facial symmetry by changing endocrine levels, or do attractive people just have a higher chance of contracting the parasite?
Image: Sebnem Ilhan
๐ Usually, studios pay for billboards to advertise their new releases but HBO decided to do a Euro step. To promote Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, they refurbished a basketball court in Inglewood, south central Los Angeles, and donated $10K to a local school. Now the community can enjoy a game of hoops on a new basketball court. Slam dunk!
๐ This is not a banana, but it is the ultimate in banana dessert. Watch pastry chef Amaury Guichon create an amazingly realistic banana pastry. (Now I'm hungry!)
๐ Why don't we all live in steel houses? In the late 1940s, steel houses with steel on the outside and the inside was the hot new thing. For a while, it was considered the future of housing ... until it wasn't. Here's the story of the rise and fall of the steel house.
"A large portion of downtown Indianapolis remained evacuated. Report are sketchy at this point but we do know that apparently there are terrorists holed up in the downtown part of our city with nuclear devices."
๐ฃ Fortunately, that wasn't real: the fake newscast was part of a 1986 training video developed by the Nuclear Security Administration, the federal agency that's responsible to avoid nuclear catastrophes in the United States. The video was part of "Mighty Derringer," a multi-agency exercise in which a large city was devastated by a nuclear blast.
๐ธ Got a bad experience at a local business? Most of us would just grumble but not Layne Barton. When he got a bad experience at his local Western Dental & Orthodontics clinic, he rocked his protest: he set up his amp on the sidewalk in front of the dental clinic and shredded his guitar.
๐ฅ๏ธ My favorite link of the day: Clinton Jones challenged his fellow artists from around the world to design CG art on the theme "Infinite Journeys" and 2,448 of them answered the call. Jones featured the Top 100 3D renders in this fantastic clip. Don't miss this one!
โ Have we reached peak Will Smith news yet? If you're tired of hearing celebs give their take on the infamous Oscar slap, consider what people who just happen to share the same name as the actor must be feeling. They're the wrong Will Smith, and they're taking abuse online.
