Or, to be more precise, it's a didgeridoo with a curved shape that resembles a saxophone.

The Strawberry Man is a musician who got is name by wearing strawberry-themed outfits early in his career. When he encountered the didgeridoo, he was fascinated with its mesmerizing sound and decided to learn how to play it.

The didgeridoo looks like a simple pipe, but playing it is a physically demanding task. It requires circular breathing--simultaneously inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth without pausing.

The Strawberry Man took his didgeridoos on tour, but found transporting them on planes very challenging. He needed a more compact instrument. The result of his experiments with collaborators is the Saxo-Didge--a didgeridoo that retains its traditional sound while fitting into a much smaller space.

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Nathan Yau, a statistician who runs Flowing Data, created an interactive chart that illustrates how are we connected to the people that we spend time with over the course of a typical day. Yau used data from the American Time Use Survey conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics between 2022 and 2024. The tool is adjustable by sex, age, and either weekend or weekday.

As a chronologically well-endowed man not yet retired, most of my time is spent with co-workers, but that trends toward my wife in the evening. I assure you that under no circumstances am I with friends at 2 AM.

Some people find the 6-7 meme frustrating. My teenage children found it amusing until I started working it into every conversation that we had. Then they stopped using it. Victory!

The only way to defeat being ambushed by a youth meme is to charge into it and never let it go.

In-N-Out Burger disagrees. People magazine reports that the In-N-Out Burger restaurant chain, upset at people yelling 6-7 when number #67 would be called, remove it from the enumeration. The number that is called after Order 66 is number 68, thus disarming would-be memers among the customers present.

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Vinnie's is a pizzeria in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn is famous for innovative pizza designs, such as pizzas topped with smaller pizzas and a pizza box that is itself made of pizzas. Its menu is always startling.

Most recently, the culinary wizards at Vinnie's have devised the ultimate comfort food pizza. What could be better to eat on a cold winter's day than tomato soup paired with grilled cheese sandwiches? Vinnie's proposes a pizza covered with that meal.

Gourmand and committed New Yorker Nicholas Heller visited and recorded this video of its production. The carefully prepared sandwiches are added halfway through the baking process so that the entire pie bonds together.

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Deke Cameron is The Glass Clown, a stained glass artist in the Austin, Texas area. You can commission him to create windows and pieces so suit your own needs or consider purchasing one of his passion projects inspired by popular culture. Here, for example, is Swedish Chef, one of the finest cooks the Muppets ever produced.

You'd better pick up that mace, Hamburgler. You're need it!

Our anti-hero of the Ronald McDonaldland cinematic universe has been, at long last, called to account before the throne of Ronaldus McDonaldus.

But Ronaldus's hunger for blood far exceeds the contents of the veins of Birdy the Early Bird. He wants more suffering--enough to cover up the cheers of the crowds that he has corrupted through the daily sights in the PlayPlace.

The Hamburgler now must face the Grimace. Truth be told, he's too dangerous for the PlayPlace. That's why Officer Big Mac fled the city last week. He knows that eventually he'll end up in the belly of the Grimace as depicted by Last Place Comics.

The Independent reports that 17 parachutists were preparing for a coordinated jump out of a Cessna Caravan flying out of the airport of Tully, Queensland, Australia.

One unlucky skydiver experienced a premature deployment of his reserve parachute, causing him to impact against a stabilizer with his legs and then get caught on that stabilizer by the parachute.

He then used a knife to cut the 11 ropes that connected him to the reserve chute and deploy his main parachute to successfully land on the ground.

The pilot, unaware of the problem, experienced difficulty controlling the plane as a result of the accident. He considered bailing out but was able to regain control of the craft and land it safely.

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Rosemary Marco is an artist and writer who communicates information about the natural world and the importance of preserving it. She's especially passionate about birds and would like to have their powers.

A gular pouch could be especially helpful during harsh winter months when food becomes scarce or during workplace meetings that drag on into my lunchbreak. Perhaps I could create an artificial one and wear it around my neck.

Mateo Zielonka is a world-renowned pasta chef who recently published a cookbook teaching his craft.

He's made astonishingly realistic pasta versions of household objects, such as cookpots, and logos, such as the shield of the Arsenal soccer team.

"Is it cake?" is the old question. "Is it pasta?" is an update by Zielonka.

In the case of the above video, our master chef used molds to create LEGO minifigs and blocks out of flour. Then he carefully cooked the delicate objects to buttery perfection.

Instagram user @nao2748 is a food artist who crafts amazing treats that delight all of the senses. Her projects include focaccia loaves with crab-shaped tomatoes, cake sandwiches with Santa Claus, and cheesecakes shaped like foxes.

She's also made pizzas shaped like frogs. The frogs are ready for the winter, as they have their mittens on and wear beanie caps to shield themselves from the cold weather.

They bake well and still look like cozy frogs warmed by the heat of a fireplace (or oven). Hop over to her kitchen and try one.

British-American actor Roddy McDowall appeared in all three of the original Planet of the Apes films in the role of Dr. Cornelius. In the third film, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, he finds himself in contemporary human-ruled Earth.

Enter Jameson Montgomery, a fashion writer for the New York Times. Reader Nina says that she loves a robe that Cornelius wore during the film. She would like to own and wear one like it. Can Montgomery help her? Montgomery then goes on a quest to locate this robe or a copy of it. The hero's journey takes him to fashion history experts and vintage clothing collectors in search of the lost totem.

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YouTuber Builda Dad Garage builds extraordinary vehicles in his workshop, mostly extreme vehicles designed to tackle the roughest environments. These include tracked wheelchairs, dually go-karts, minibikes with mower attachments, a bike that rolls on barrels, and amphibious trikes.

One of his recent inventions is a mechanized ladder that can push through snow and over obstacles thanks to rear-mounted tracks. It's an ideal machine for, say, clearing gutters. This way, you don't have to climb down and reposition the ladder every few feet. Just stay at the top and drive.

He also made a wheeled variant for, presumably, transportation over roads.

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Radiohead's famous single "Creep" is spoken from the point of view of a man who's a bit creepy because the object of his love does not return it. He's watching his subject very carefully. He's making a list and he's checking it twice.

Or is that Santa Claus from the 1934 Christmas classic "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"? It's easy to get the two songs confused because they tell a similar story, especially after Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It gets to work mashing them together.

This song is from Ballard's Christmas album, which includes the previously shared "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" sung by Creed.

Eric Coquin Poirier is a Québécois musician and inventor of musical instruments. He's especially fond of modifying accordions, guitars, and harmonicas to create one-man bands or instruments for people with disabilities.

With the harp reactor, Poirier is going far beyond modifying pre-existing instruments into devising an original invention. This instrument, much of which appears to be 3D printed, combines several harmonicas with a bellows similar to what you might find on a concertina.

In this video, Poirier puts his invention to the test by performing Michael Jackson's "Beat It."

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Roslyn, North Dakota has only 181 residents, but those happy few can claim to reside in the shadow of the International Vinegar Museum.

It was founded by Lawrence "The Vinegar Man" Diggs, who is also the founder of Vinegar Connoisseurs International. You can think of him as the world's foremost expert on and devoted fan of vinegar. In 1999, he converted the old 1930s-era auditorium of Roslyn into a museum dedicated to this liquid. Visitors can learn about hundreds of different uses for vinegar, as well as taste many that Diggs has collected.

Rosyln has learned into its vinegary identity. It now has an annual vinegar festival which includes a parade hosted by a pickle mascot. It occurs on the third Saturday of every June

-via Atlas Obscura | Photos: International Vinegar Museum