Actor Jeff Goldblum has a . . . let’s say unique laugh. Is it playable? You can try it out on this sheet music. Be sure to play it on your bagpipes con brio, which apparently means “vigorously.”
Is it faithful to the original? Here’s a sample of Goldblum’s laughter.
-via Tastefully Offensive | Image: unknown
Hebron High School of Carrollton, Texas faced off against Allen High School of Allen, Texas. Hebron pulled off an elaborate trick play. Like a good stage magician, the team distracted its opponents by drawing their attention to the center of the field.
Meanwhile, one player ambled over to the sideline, apparently to talk to a coach. But he remained inbound and thus still in play. Hebron kicked the ball down the field, which was recovered by the player near the sideline.
Referees called the play an illegal shift, so it wasn’t accepted. But it was a commendably clever attempt.
-via 22 Words
When it is completed, the first ship in Maersk Triple E series will be the largest ever built in human history. Photographer Alastair Philip Wiper got the chance to crawl around it for a few hours while the hulk, still under construction, passed through Copenhagen last year. You can see his photo set of this amazing machine here.
The Maersk shipping line plans to build 20 of these marvels, each of which is 59 meters wide and can carry 18,000 shipping containers. When the first one is complete, it will have a crew of 15 who can enjoy on board amenities, including a swimming pool and a movie theater. This ship is the pride of Opko, South Korea, where its construction now take place.
-via Ka-ching!
Wonder Woman has long flown an invisible jet. Recently, LEGO produced a massive, 3,200-piece version of it. Since John Wray and his kids love LEGO, they spent a day carefully assembling this incredibly complex model of the plane. You can see more photos here.
I'm really impressed with the level of detail that LEGO put into this set. The model looks almost like the real thing!
-via Kotaku
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Why are these men not wearing shirts? Maybe it's hot, but they're actually in uniform. This is a classroom at a school for sumo, a traditional Japanese sport. Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku has a roundup of more photos and a description of student life there. The Sumo Training School in Tokyo has a 6-month curriculum that includes 2 hours a day inside a classroom. There, the students learn etiquette, calligraphy, and singing, among other subjects.
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Having advanced in years and become infirm, Nancy Cowen of Westcott, Surrey, UK, had to move into a nursing home. It was necessary for her to part with her beloved cat, Cleo. She sent Cleo to live with her former neighbors.
But Cleo was having none of that.
Nursing home staff noticed that two weeks after Ms. Cowen moved in, a cat began hanging around outside, sleeping on the benches. Ms. Cowen and her sister saw the cat and confirmed that it was Cleo. Jennifer Hardwick writes for the Dorkling and Leatherhead Advertiser:
The happy pair have now been officially reunited, with Bramley House able to cater for the contented feline and keep her in her beloved owner's company.
The pet-friendly facility has also pledged to give Cleo a home for as long as she needs one in the future.
In about 1899 or 1900, the German chocolate company Hildebrands published postcards that showed what life would be like a century hence in the year 2000. What is remarkable about them is that so many of these predictions were completely accurate--as though the artists really could see into the future.
For example, this postcard shows people traveling over the water on personal boatwheels and footboats while supported by helium-filled balloons. It's hard to think that there was a time when this wasn't normal.
The combination steamship/locomotive is now how many people in coastal regions make daily commutes to work and school.
Do you want to control the weather? Until just 50 years ago, it was impossible to set your personal weather preferences. If it was raining, you just had to carry an "umbrella"--or actually get wet!
Other predictions were less foresighted. The artists also imagined being able to electronically transmit theater performances to viewers far away or travel on airships to the North Pole. Still, the accuracy rate of these postcards is really impressive. You can view them all here.
-via Visual News
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France from 1774-1792, was fond of her dogs and could afford to buy them luxurious homes far beyond what the average human could afford to live in. This is a doghouse made for her by the famous French furniture builder Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené. It's currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It's made of beech and pine wood covered with gold and cushioned by silk and velvet.
-via Messy Nessy Chic
Nick Chipman is the executive chef of DudeFoods, a site filled with the most manly and nutritionally dubious foods in the world. We've featured his work extensively.
He recently made a hamburger that had compressed macaroni and cheese for buns. One of his readers pointed out that he could make a mac and cheese burger even more mac-y by building a Big Mac with mac and cheese buns. This beautiful meal is the result.
Chipman says that it's hard to eat because it's so tall. But:
On the plus side, there’s a really simple solution to the problem — deep fry the entire thing and serve it on a stick!
We've seen Starbucks cups with doodles, but we've never before seen Starbucks cups like this! South Korean artist Soo Min Kim takes Starbucks cups and makes them into wonders fit for any art gallery.
Sometimes he changes the siren into different characters or places her in other settings. Recently, he's been cutting out portions of the cups and illuminating them with tea lights to provide a visual depth to the scenes. You can view more of his work at Rocket News 24.
Many 12-year olds like to spend their free time playing video games. But Mikey has no interest in them. He has a more low-tech hobby: throwing ping pong balls. And he is a master of it!
Mikey throws the balls against hard objects, bouncing them off to land in cups. Sometimes he throws a few balls off several objects and lands all of them right on target.
As the video progresses, Mikey's shots get more complicated. The final minute is astounding.
-via 22 Words
On Saturday, Morrisville State College of Morrisville, New York beat Kean University with a score of 37 to 31. Morrisville quarterback Lemar Johnson greatly contributed to that victory. In one incredible moment, Johnson jumped over a Kean player trying to block him and ran the final few feet to the end zone. This video shows that moment at normal speed, then in slow motion.
-via Huffington Post
In a live action Pokémon movie, who should play Snorlax? Nick Cage, of course. And Bulbasaur? Nick Cage, again. He should play all of the roles because he is Nick Cage--the everyman, er everypokémon, of our generation.
Jess Bellamy, an artist in Los Angeles, paints images of Nicholas Cage as various Pokémon. Hopefully, she will continue until she collects all 649 of them.
-via Technabob
The little Siberian husky hears the call of the wild and is ready to heed it. But first, he must escape from this confounded bowl! Out of his way, plastic. The wolf within must run!
-via Daily of the Day
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There is little information available about DeviantART member Too Dim. The madness expressed in the online journal doesn't clarify the art. But it is clear that Too Dim is a gifted and inventive artist who works in a wide variety of media, assembling objects in combinations you'd never expect and shaping them with refined skill.
