Winter has come to much of the South, including Texas. We are familiar but not intimate with cold weather, as King of the Hill teased. It is currently well below freezing in the Texas town of Roanoke, which is north of Fort Worth. The police department of that municipality has published this guide to understanding the difference between freezing rain and sleet.

People who live in the tundra north of the Red River may understand it intuitively, but those of us south of that wall representing the northern limit of civilization must learn that the ice is different. Freezing rain is liquid when it strikes the ground, whereas sleet fell in solid form. The police explain this distinction using iconic of law enforcement foods: the donut.

-via Scanner Radio Fort Worth

Do you want to drive women wild with desire? Flex out your dewlap with your hyoid muscles. Pulse it rhythmically while bobbing your head up and down. Hopefully your dewlap has a naturally red coloration.

If not...well, just be confident. Likle this guy in Ryan Mason's At Random Comics. Flex what you have like you have the biggest, brightest dewlap in the forest.

When the dystopian comedy movie Idiocracy was filmed in 2004, the fashion coordinators selected crocs as the common footwear because they looked simultaneously futuristic and stupid. But they have since transcended those humble and intentionally insulting origins to be a worldwide "fashion" phenomenon.

The LEGO and Croc companies have collaborated to develop these novel variants in the shape of LEGO bricks. Will they protect your feet in the event that you step on LEGO bricks left on the floor by small children. It will be necessary to test them to find out.

This pair isn't a one-off design for publicity. Crocs is actually selling them for $149.99 starting on February 16.

-via Discussing Film

If you are a Star Trek fan, you will appreciate this video of this lady performing Frozen in Klingon!!! pic.twitter.com/lg6aQGqaOX

— Hollywood Horror Museum (@horrormuseum) January 22, 2026

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Zillow Gone Wild points us to this mansion located in Disney World (TIL: you can actually live at Disney World) that is decked out for a committed and extremely wealthy Disney fan. The Star Wars-themed home theater gives the impression that you are watching the screen from inside the Millennium Falcon.

As Gary Larson predicted in the below 1982 scene from The Far Side, bovine life has now developed the ability to use tools.

Scientific American reports that Veronika, a cow in the town of Nötsch im Gailtal, Austria, has begun using a deck brush to scratch herself. She even adjusts her grip on the brush to scratch different parts of her body and both ends of it for distinct purposes. Veterinary behaviorists report this is the first known tool use by bovine life.

It begins with scratching sticks. It ends with nuclear weapons.

I say that we strike first while we still can.

-via @gdholtby

The French company and brand Bic is famous worldwide for its iconic ballpoint pens, notably the Cristal, which it unveiled in 1950. To celebrate the 75th birthday of this office staple, the South African division of Bic company threw a party for it.

Fast Company reports that the company also commissioned the creation of selected LED lamps made to resemble giant versions of the Cristal pen. They can be suspended over your work-covered desk like a Sword of Damocles or tastefully accenting a wall. Each will sell for $350 when they become available in the United States.

Previously on Neatorama: hilarious reviews of Bic Cristal pens made specifically for women.

On January 6, 1592, Irish patriots Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Art O'Neill, and his brother Henry Shane O'Neill escaped from English captivity in Dublin Castle. They ran for 62 kilometers to safety in the wild lands of the Wicklow Mountains. The winter conditions were brutal and Art O'Neill died while Hugh Roe O'Donnell lost his big toes due to frostbite.

To commemorate this heroic moment in Irish resistance to foreign rule, runners participate in the Art O'Neill Challenge. There are running, hybrid, and trekking categories. All participants strive to reach the summit of a mountain topped by Art's Cross--the spot it is thought to be the location that Art O'Neill was buried.

-via Frank McNally | Photo: History Ireland

No cap, Dr. Alison Luchs drips the rizz on us with her totally slay vibe about "Urn with Grotesque Masks," a treasure at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A professional historian with decades of teaching experience in art history, Luchs mogs the haters with her exposition on this Egyptian stone turned into a column by the Romans, then modified into an urn by Sixteenth Century Florentines.

It's giving, especially given that this gyatt urn likely held nothing but the owners' aura. Some might find it sus, but the artists responsible would have no opp in their era or modern times.

So get out and touch grass at the National Art Gallery. Staying at all home day is big yikes.

YouTubers Monen mit Melonen (Google Translate says that's German for "monkeys with melons") are master violinists. Yet they are also starving artists who can afford only one violin. It would appear that they're not fond of taking turns or their practice time is limited and thus necessitates simultaneous practice.

In several videos, they play one violin simultaneously.

-via David Thompson

The premise is ingenious: we have the classic Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet most memorably told by William Shakespeare but we experience that story from the perspective of Godzilla.

How does Godzilla appear in the most well-known play? My immediate thought was to replace Friar Laurence with Godzilla as the cleric's personality and role in the story is very fitting for the great kaiju.

But it will be necessary to wait for the release of IDW Publishing's one-shot comic book on April 8 to know for sure. Godzilla's official website informs us that readers can expect love, intrigue, and the destruction of fair Verona.

-via Discussing Film

The grandeur of the Pokémon universe began thirty years ago and Japan is celebrating the franchise. Sora News 24 tells us that a permanent Pokémon theme park is opening in Tokyo. It's called Poképark Kanto.

It consists of two sections: Pokémon Forest, where visitors will be able to encounter Pokémon in natural environments, and Sedge Town, which consists of attractions aimed at the needs of trainers.

A few promotional photos are available. They show this lovely carousel ride with your favorite pocket monsters. You'll be able to ride it starting on February 5 with the grand opening. But demand for tickets is so high that the park managers have a lottery system for visits up through March.

"Yeah, I know how stupid this is. But it had to be done."

No, Aaron Christophel is far, far from stupid. His project is intelligent and thoughtful. What if you want to play Doom but only have access to a Krups Cook4Me electric cooking pot? Christophel provided detailed instructions on which steps you need to take.

If I understand him correctly, Christophel has arranged his Doom porting in such a way that a person must complete the game in order to again use the cook pot for cooking food. That's motivation to kill the demons and secure final victory!

-via Hack A Day

This gentleman on the Chinese video hosting app Bilibili plays the erhu--a two-stringed bowed instrument. It produces excellent fiddle music as aptly demonstrated with the American folk song "Dixie." The erhu's vibrant notes transport us to a land of cotton for old times there are not forgotten.

-via Orikron, who imagines the song as authentically Chinese had the Ming dynasty had not closed off private maritime trade in 1371.

Can I tell you how to get to Sesame Street? Yes, but I assure you that you should go as a tourist. You do not want to actually live there. The residents are freaks. And I don't mean just their physical features, but also their behaviors. Comedian Ross Snow depicts life as a normal person on The Street.

This is Snow's schtick. He's also depicted an insurance adjuster on Stranger Things, what Gordon Ramsey would be like as a child, and a realtor trying to sell your Sims house. Perhaps we're all better off on this side of our screens instead of these fantasies.