You are the one they call homeowner? I see you are practiced in working
in the kitchen. Rise before Zod. Now, kneel before Zod ... in this beautifully
appointed kitchen filled with modern conveniences.
Zod should know. He's been designing kitchens for 30 of your Earth years.
And in that time, Zod has developed a reputation for quality service and
superior workmanship at a price to suit any budget.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
to watch this bit of comedy by Shaun Micallef of Newstopia - via Boing
Boing
No, horse meat isn't why Wendy's burgers are so darned tasty. They use
demon flesh, instead. Oh vandalism, you can be cute sometimes. Via Obvious
Winner
Forget Luke and his goody-two shoes friends! German fan group Project
X-1 found the lack of attention to the Dark Side disturbing, so they
set forth to build a life-size replica of Darth Vader's TIE Fighter space
ship.
Impressive. Most impressive, as the Sith Lord would say: Link
- via Topless
Robot
Now this should bring a pearly white smile to your face. Chilean/Japanese
artist Kazuki Guzmán
sculpted the tiny figure above, sitting on a toothbrush, out of regular
toothpaste! Link
"Our Princess is in Another Castle of the Pyrenees!" based on
René Magritte's "Castle of the Pyrenees" (1959)
"Super Brothers!" based on René Magritte's "High
Society" (1962)
"Racoonda" based on René Magritte's "Golconda"
(1953)
"Bullet Bill Transfixed" based on René Magritte's "Time
Transfixed" (1938)
So this is what happens when Super Mario meets René Magritte.
Tumblr artist Super Magritte
playfully recreates masterpieces from the Belgian surrealist painter in
8-bit style featuring your favorite Super Mario characters. Check it out:
Link - via Animal
NY
"The most serious health problem in the U.S. today is obesity."
The all-too-familiar sentence started an article about obesity in America
that would fit right at home right now ... except it was actually written
60 years ago.
In 1954, LIFE Magazine featured an article titled "The Plague of
Overweight," in which they followed the journey of a woman named
Dorothy Bradley who struggled with overeating and body-image issues that
many of us can relate to today.
Ben Cosgrove of LIFE wrote in this blog post:
“Some five million Americans,” LIFE wrote [back in 1954], “medically
considered ‘obese,’ weigh at least 20% more than normal and, as a result,
have a mortality rate one-and-a-half times higher than their neighbors….
Another 20 million Americans are classed by doctors and insurance men
as overweight (10% above normal) and are drastically prone to diabetes,
gallstones, hernia, kidney and bladder impairments and complications
during surgery and pregnancy.”
Today the numbers cited by LIFE have ballooned to even more appalling
proportions: according to the CDC, “more than a third of U.S. adults
(35.7%) and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents
aged 2 – 19 years are obese.”
But perhaps the most astonishing and troubling statistic about obesity
in the USA relates to the speed with which this affliction has taken
hold: for example, in 2010 (again according to the CDC), “there were
12 states with an obesity prevalence of 30%. In 2000, no state had an
obesity prevalence of 30% or more.” Feel free to read that again — and
try to imagine the toll those millions upon millions of extra pounds
will have on the health of those men, women and children, and on the
nation’s economy.
I don't know about you, but that looks like a particularly terrible place
to sleep! Photographer Shi Tou snapped this pic of napping laborers on
a road as cars drive past in Chongqing, China: Link
Forget expensive drones! Police in Xinjiang province, China, have come up with a better alternative: geese.
“Among all poultry, geese [are known] for being extremely vigilant and having excellent hearing,” Zhang Quansheng, a police chief in Xinjiang’s Shawan county, told the newspaper.
The People’s Daily said the “sharp, keen and brave” animals were proving an invaluable tool in Xinjiang’s war on crime and were now being “actively promoted” across the region.
Law enforcement agents described the geese as a new “highlight of stability maintenance work” and said they had proved themselves “better than dogs” in tackling crime.
Geese, the police chief added, is like a radar that does not need power. Let's honk to that: Link
We don't know what it is about the sugary slice of heaven known as donuts that inspire generosity in humans, but inspire it did. A drive-thru customer at Heav'nly Donuts in Amesbury, Massachusetts, started a "pay it forward" chain that lasted 55 people in a row:
“After that it was like, oh we’re three cars deep, four cars deep, and after about the 15th car I started letting the customers know, ‘Hey, we’re 17 cars in, you can either keep it going or you can take your coffee and go. Either way it’s your choice,’” the clerk said.
According to the clerk, 55 customers rolled through the drive-thru back-to-back, each one paying for the next order.
The chain only broke when they ran out of customers: Link
To celebrate the National Ice Cream Month, ice cream purveyor Baskin-Robbins commissioned smell and taste expert (apparently, there is such a guy) Dr. Alan Hirsch to conduct a study on the relationship between ice cream flavors and personality.
"We uncovered quite a few surprising findings when investigating what a person’s favorite ice cream flavor says about their personality," said Dr. Hirsch. "For instance, we found that people who prefer Rainbow Sherbet are more pessimistic than you would think, in spite of the flavor’s bright taste profile, and that those who prefer Rocky Road are actually very good listeners.”
The results:
If your favorite flavor is Vanilla, you’re more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist.
If your favorite flavor is Chocolate, you’re more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible.
If your favorite flavor is, Very Berry Strawberry, you’re more likely to be a tolerant, devoted and an introvert.
If your favorite flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious.
If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, you’re more likely to be ambitious, competitive and a visionary.
If your favorite flavor is Pralines ‘n Cream, you’re more likely to be loving, supportive and prefer to avoid the spotlight.
If your favorite flavor is Jamoca (i.e. coffee),you’re more likely to bescrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist.
If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be generous, competent and a go getter.
If your favorite flavor is Rainbow Sherbet, you’re more likely to be analytic, decisive and a pessimistic.
If your favorite flavor is Rocky Road, you’re more likely to be aggressive, engaging and a good listener.
Earlier this month, a truck crash in Salem, Oregon, killed hundreds of chicken. To commemorate the sad event, PETA wanted to build a statue:
PETA wanted to build a statue standing more than five feet tall and weighing 250 pounds at the intersection of Commercial and Division streets. It was designed by “The New Yorker” cartoonist Harry Bliss.
The statue “would serve as a reminder not only to livestock haulers to take extra precautions with their live cargo but also to city residents that chickens are among the most abused animals on the planet and the best way to try to prevent crashes like this is to go vegan so that chickens don't have to make the trip to the slaughterhouse in the first place,” PETA spokeswoman Shakira Croce said in a news release.
The city, however, declined the organization's generosity: Link - Thanks Tiffany!
When the woman sitting next to Steve Cullum on the airplane decided to
use his arm as a pillow, he decided to turn lemon into lemonade by making
the drooly experience into a little YouTube gold:
Minding my own business on a flight home, when I ended up in an extremely
awkward situation. This lady was totally out of it. As soon as she sat
down, she started falling asleep, and it only got worse as the flight
continued. I tried lifting her up, shaking her, and startling her, but
it seemed like nothing was going to work. So, I thought it would be
fun to get some of it on video to share with family and friends. Then
she finally moved... Only to find someone else for the last part of
the flight. Ha!
In her series Cinematography, Tokyo-born artist Maiko Takeda uses something unusual as fashion adornment: shadows.
Maiko wrote:
Cinematography collection questions whether shadows can be transformed into material that adorns the body. When the light shines through each piece, a photograph-like image appears and follows the silhouette of the skin. Shadow is ephemeral yet remains the main part of the work.
Flickr user Poster Boy NYC (previously on Neatorama) "improved" the poster advertisement in a Brooklyn subway station for the upcoming Wolverine movie with, uh, clever slicing action. You better believe it, bub! Link
