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.
๐ If learning is not a competition, then there shouldn't be winners, right? That's what the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado reasoned when they decided to stop recognizing valedictorians. Needless to say, that decision was controversial.
๐บ It's a fact of life that cats shed (and sometimes, they throw up a hairball) but you don't have to let all that fluffy fur go to waste. Instead, just do what Twitter user @MiniraDairy did and needlefelt some house slippers for your cat. A-meow-zing!
๐น There are many cover of this famous video game theme music, but Scott Bradlee of Postmodern Jukebox has managed to give us chills some playing the Super Mario Bros. theme music as ragtime piano medley. Fantastic!
๐ค Doctor Frankenstein, I presume? Scientists have made lab-grown living "xenobot" robot that can replicate and make more of themselves. And they're shaped like Pac-Man!
๐ Hollywood rom-coms are wrong: science has debunked "opposites attract" as researchers found that friends and lovers actually tend to share beliefs, values, and hobbies.
๐ฆฅ Got a home gym? Perhaps a Peloton that's now serving as a laundry station? Then this comic title "Smart" Home Gym Equipment for the Less Active by Gemma Correll will surely resonate.
๐ต "Every song has been tempo matched, beat synced, harmonized and spliced together perfectly. Honestly, it's a work of genius": 600 Songs from 1990 to 1999 remixed. What a fun musical blast from the past.
๐จ Here's a nine-panel AI generated artwork by @TDRAW_Ai_Art, with each panel depicting a futuristic cityscape. But when the nine panels are put together, you'll see the Mona Lisa, as drawn by AI. I'm sure Leonardo da Vinci would approve!
๐ From our new site Spooky Daily, where we celebrate everything Halloween 365 days a year, here are some celebrities that were born on Halloween. Some of them probably got sick and tired of candies as birthday presents.
๐ฅง I'm drooling for Gustav Klimt's The Kiss made in pie. Lemon pie to be exact (the artist called it a "Klimt Klemon Pie" which is all sorts of clever. Kissable AND edible, a rare combo indeed).
๐ The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a speed of 27000 km/h (16,800 mph) so it takes it just half a second to transit the Moon. But amazingly, astrophotographer Thierry Legault managed to take this phenomenal photo of the International Space Station crossing the Moon.
๐ During a basketball game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Saint Mary's Gaels, a basketball got stuck between the backboard and the shot clock. But when even the tallest player and a referee with a mop standing on a chair couldn't dislodge the ball, it was time to call in the big guns: cheerleaders.
โ๏ธ Of 575 chemistry professors in the United Kingdom, just one is black.
๐ป Ghostbusters 1954 is a clever mashup of 17 movies, including The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello meets the Invisible Man, and The Day The Earth Stood Still and stars Hollywood luminaries such as Bob Hope and Dean Martin. It's a YouTube masterpiece!
๐น๏ธ In 2005, a fan-made render of the portable GameCube Advance went viral and people have been wishing for Nintendo to make it real. A hacker by the name of GingerofOz got tired of waiting and decided to build his own GameCube Advance.
๐ผ Some animals are just endowed with higher cute quotient than others. Take, for example, red pandas (which you might learn from the new Pixar movie Turning Red). But there is one thing cuter than a red panda: baby red panda! And the Taronga Zoo in Australia got two new baby red pandas guaranteed to make you say "awww!"
