Do remember how hard it was to learn how to drive? It was scary for you, but even scarier for your instructor. Now imagine that coming of age experience in the future, when cars can fly. That's the premise of Crash Course, a funny short film produced by students at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand.
It's reminiscent of this scene from The Naked Gun.
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The Scorpion Chair is ideal for formal occasions. But you can't be "on" all of the time. Sometimes, you need to retreat to your cozy corner to relax after a hard day at work. Etsy seller Chic Sin Design has just the right chair for that purpose.
We've previously seen that company's beanbag chair shaped like a sleeping bear. This one will get you in a similar mood. It's a soft, plush chair shaped like a human skull. Just sit in the jaws and chill.
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The Mars Bar is the signature chocolate candy of the Mars chocolate company--a firm that has not only international but also interplanetary reach. Of course, on Mars, it's necessary to market the same product under a different name. The focus groups were clear about that. Artist Rafik Emil H. illustrates the result.
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It's called the Aromafork. Molecule-R, a company in Montreal, is marketing it as a way to make food tastier. The premise is that if food smells better, it will taste better. The hole in the fork has a space for a scent-infused slip of paper. Bringing the fork to your mouth to eat brings the paper to your nose, filling your nostrils with that scent instead of the smell of the food.
The company currently sells 21 different aromas, including mint, strawberry, wasabi, and cheesecake. What flavors would you like to smell in your fork?
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Last Friday, we told you about a wonderful word problem written by 8th grade student Cody Swanek. It's about the troubles that J.J. Abrams, the director of the next Star Wars movie, faces during production. Pictured above is his original manuscript. It reads as follows:
J. J. Abrams is making Star Wars Episode 7. He rented three speeder bikes which was 700 imperial credits to start. He must pay 100 imperial credits to keep his speeder bikes daily. If he does not pay daily, Prince Xizor and other Black Sun members will kidnap J. J. Abrams, bring him to Mustafar, and sacrifice him.
J. J. Abrams is also paying 5 bounty hunters to keep separatist spies out. That costs 200 imperial credits to start, then 50 imperial credits for each bounty hunter every time they capture a spy. The Separatists send 2 spies every day.
In how many days does J. J. Abrams spend the same amount of imperial credits on speeders and bounty hunters?
Abrams has undertaken the monumental responsibility of creating the Star Wars movie and is thus not a man to shirk from a challenge. Topless Robot reports that Abrams solved Cody's problem and mailed him a handwritten explanation of his reasoning.
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This is how William Toomey's ring-tailed lemur, Koko, traverses a hallway. There's no need for him to touch the floor.
Can you do this? Please record your efforts and post the videos in the comments.
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Volkswagen wants people to think of its electric cars as futuristic, so it hired William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to appear in this German language commercial. It shows a young and hardcore Trekkie getting the thrill of his life when William Shatner moves into his neighborhood.
This behind-the-scenes video, which is embedded below, is even better. I gather that Owen Jonas, the boy in the video, is an actual Trekkie himself. Shatner looks around the toy collection and shares bits of interesting trivia with him. For example, Shatner explains that toymakers made hand phaser replicas that were better than the props, so the show began using the toys instead of the props.
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Can you drive your opponent to the ground? Then, obviously, you should bear this giant green macaron as a trophy. Rocket News 24 reports that this giant cookie was a prize at the Sumo Senshuraku championship. The famous French pastry chef Pierre Hermé made it for the tournament.
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Imgur user Managerofnothing wanted to restore his Volkswagen Rabbit GTI. To do so, he bought another GTI and stripped it for parts. He still had most of the shell of the extra GTI left over. So he decided to use it to build a grill.
This beautiful custom grill has a cherry wood counter around the fire pit and is painted to match the restored GTI. He's wired the headlights, which will no doubt make griling at night easier.
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Siobhan Thompson of BBC America's Anglophenia blog imagines insulting people using only the words of William Shakespeare. In that case, my response to the Bard is:
You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
You can find all of her references with links to the full text of the plays here.
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(Photo: Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon)
That's a pace of about 5.4 MPH--a fairly comfortable jogging speed if you have two legs. But Larry Chloupek finished this half marathon while using crutches. He performed this feat at the Rock 'n' Roll Arizona marathon back in January. He recently received confirmation from Guinness World Records that he holds the title of the fastest half marathon completed on crutches.
And the policeman said, "Why the long face?"
Monday was a quiet night at the headquarters of the Cheshire Constabulary in Winsford, Cheshire, UK. Then a horse, obviously in need of police assistance, walked in. The officers did not make him feel welcome and shooed him out.
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"Come here, buddy. Good boy, good boy. That's a good fish"
Christopher Green caught a white bass. He let it go. But then it came back! He held it, then let it go, and kept this going for at least a minute.
This clever ring set shows the Enterprise engaged in saucer separation--a process which permits the primary hull to detach from the secondary hull. In the Next Generation, saucer separation was a fairly smooth process. In classic Trek, this was an emergency procedure assumed to be permanent. This Enterprise appears to be from the modern, re-imagined universe. I don't know what is canon about saucer separation on that ship. But we can assume that it portends ill for the relationship.
Allison Hourcade, a jeweler who maintains the RockLove studio, designed this ring. It's one of her many inventive designs. You can view more of them here.
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If you really want to treat your friends like σκύβαλον, then this is what you do to them when you have a lingual advantage over them. But at least you're drawing two people closer together in a romantic bond.
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