It's not that I don't like you. It's just that I don't like being so close to other people. Good fences make good neighbors, you know.
Michael Pederson, a street artist in Sydney, Australia, makes signs and leaves them in public places. For his most recent project, he printed these helpful cards and left them available for people to use. They would no doubt be helpful for dealing with strangers who get a bit too close.
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Add a scoop of ice cream on top and you've got all 3 food groups covered!
Anthony Calleo operates the Pi Pizza Truck, a food truck in Houston, Texas that serves gourmet pizzas. He's now offering a fresh take on his most popular dish, which is a pizza with soppressata salami. He wraps it around a hamburger, then adds olive tapenade. There's no need for further condiments because the pizza bun itself has them inside.
Calleo calls it the Jumping the Shark Burger. Each one costs $16 because, well, it is a gourmet pizza.
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a version of you that did not eat that entire box of cookies. But there's only one because that's a surprisingly uncommon choice for you to make. It's almost like you were fated to get this big.
How do you make modern art? Ethan Klein went to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to find out. He examined how seemingly ordinary objects are actually thoughtful expressions of meaning for which you should pay the artists large amounts of money.
Then Klein, though not a trained artist himself, set about the task of creating his own modern art. He placed his red beanie cap in a frame and put it on eBay for sale. He is willing to part with it in exchange for $1,000,000.
Klein's framed knit cap is a work of genius. No, really, it is! Here's how you can tell: the bidding on eBay stands at $2,000,100.
Okay, so maybe the framed beanie is not itself brilliant. But if Klein can actually sell it for that amount, then he is a genius.
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Content warning: foul language, pelvic thrusting.
In the 1970s, French artist Jacques Duval-Brasseur produced a series of brass and glass tables that look like animals. Pleasant birds were among them. But for the super classy look, I would have gone straight for his scorpion table. There's a light in the tail to illuminate the surface of the table. It would be a perfect accompaniment for the scorpion office chair!
Other incredibly neat designs that are, oddly, no longer in production include tables that look like a frilled-neck lizard and a giant crab:
(Photo: WeFood)
Every year, people across the world throw out 1.3 billion metric tons of food. Safe, well-grown food is simply wasted. People in Denmark responded to this problem by setting up WeFood, a new non-profit grocery store that uses only food that has been thrown out by other grocery stores for having damaged packaging or being past its expiration date. As a result, food at WeFood is about 50% cheaper than at most stores.
The project has been part of a generally successful effort to reduce food waste in Denmark and other European nations. Amy X. Wang writes for Quartz:
Denmark as a whole has been doing a good job of cleaning up its act. The country throws away 25% less food than it did five years ago and many of its supermarkets sell food that is near its expiration date at reduced prices. Elsewhere in Europe, France has banned supermarkets from throwing away unsold food and is asking restaurants to provide take-out containers.
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Why? The answer is simple. As Rocket News 24 explains, "anything worth doing is worth overdoing to a ridiculous and dangerous extreme."
In the past, the Rocket News 24 crew has asked its local Burger King outlet to serve burgers with 1,000 slices of cheese, 1,000 slices of bacon, or 100 onion slices (sadly, not on the same burger). Now they asked for as many pickles on their Whopper as 10,000 yen would buy, which is about $89 USD at the moment.
This beautiful, vinegary monument is the result of the labors of the burger artists at the restaurant. It weighs 3.7 pounds. You can see more photos of this majestic burger at Rocket News 24.
Jake the computer programmer is leaving for a new job. His co-workers, including redditor DerpyDruid, had this cake made for them to share. Jake will be back, though: many other programmers in the comment thread say that this code won't compile properly.
Rachel Nichols, a sheep farmer in Wales, has a 3-year old daughter named Lilly. The little girl is learning many practical skills on the farm. In this video, for the second time this season, she helps a sheep give birth.
She gets elbow-deep inside the mother's uterus and feels around for the direction of its body. Then she moves the baby into a good birthing position and pulls on its feet, gently bringing it into the outside world. Great job, Lilly!
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Step 1: get into a split position.
We'll get back to you once you've accomplished that task.
Now, step 2: move to the finish line 10 meters away before anyone else does.
Kazumi Kawahara, who I think is the victor in the contest above, is also the Guinness World Record holder for the fastest 10-meter split mover. She completed it in 16.90 seconds and, as you can see in the video, does so with a bold swagger.
I'd like to think that in a better future, international disputes would be settled through split contests like this one.
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Most people at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry are wizards, but not everyone there works as a wizard. The Setup Wizard is an example. He's not even a wizard. He's a muggle, but he can work magic with the local computer network.
On his blog, The Setup Wizard recounts his daily triumphs and struggles as he tries to keep the Hogwarts computer systems up-to-date and functional. You can read about his adventures here.
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Tieta the Toucan was in the hands of an illegal animal seller in Rio de Janeiro. Last year, wildlife rescuers freed her and addressed a pressing health problem: half of her upper beak was gone. That's a big deal. Beaks not only help toucans eat, but also help them stay cool by dissipating excess heat.
So last July, 3d designers built her a plastic replacement. They tested their prototypes on taxidermy toucans, then coated their final design with a castor oil-based polymer. After fitting it on Tieta, she took 3 days to adapt to the prosthetic. Then she began eating normally. The BBC reports:
Tieta's surgery only took 40 minutes to perform but was not without risks, veterinarian Thiago Muniz says.
He explains that the prosthesis will allow her to eat independently and also help her access glands on her body that keep her feathers waterproof.
With the help of the prosthesis, Tieta will also be able to feed any chicks she might have in the future.
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A standard men's suit is designed to look best while standing. It gets a bit baggy while seated. That's a problem for people who are usually seated, specifically, in a wheelchair.
In 2004, a journalist who uses a wheelchair approached fashion designer Izzy Camilleri and asked her to produce fashionable clothing that fit a wearer well while using a wheelchair. Camilleri went on to found IZ Adaptive, a company that produces just that. It has a wide range of fashionable clothes for men and women.
For example, this suit jacket comes in two pieces. The user puts it on one at a time, then zips up the back. The arch cut in the back prevents bunching-up while in a chair.
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Thankfully, only five people were slightly injured. The outcome could have been much worse.
This escalator is in the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, China. On February 19, the escalator suddenly reversed, throwing people back. Officials took it offline. They don't know why it switched directions without warning, but are investigating it.
-via Rocket News 24
Tom Charlton snapped this terrifying photo of a Ophiophagus hannah in the Krabi Province of southern Thailand. He mentions to a friend on Facebook that he found the snake in a stream outside the friend's bungalow. My recommendation: move.
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