You don't need to scroll. Just move your eyes. Twitter user Morikuma_Works, an engineer in Japan, made good use of extra monitors by showing the entire Mario world 1-1 in one easy view.
I've got 2 monitors on my workplace computer. Now I finally have the argument that I need to secure 2 more!
-via Kotaku
Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones
Walter White from Breaking Bad
Frank Underwood from House of Cards
Karen Abad, a photographer in California, created paper backdrops from scenes of famous television shows and movies and dressed babies for starring roles. Pictured above is baby Olivia, who seems to prefer dangerous characters.
You can see more photos in the series here, here and here. The other shows in the series are Girls, True Detective, The Walking Dead and Moonrise Kingdom.
-via My Modern Met
(Photo: Laurent Laveder--Photographer's Gallery)
If you're in the United States, you may have seen snow this deep in recent weeks. But this photo is from Saint-Guénolé, France. On March 3, a terrible storm blew in from the Atlantic and swamped the town with bubbly seawater. You can see another photo here.
Keller Laros was diving off the coast of Kona, Hawaii on January 11, 2013. A bottlenose dolphin swam up to him and hovered. Laros could spot the problem immediately: there was fishing hook and line stuck in his left side. With scissors and a pliers, he carefully untangled and removed them.
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(Photo: Woodley Wonder Works)
I can answer with an unhesitating yes, but apparently some people are wary of the idea. The acclaimed Chef Edward Lee has developed an obsession with pig milk. To his knowledge, there is little history of modern Americans consuming pig milk, largely because full-grown sows are dangerous. In an interview with Modern Farmer, Lee explained, ". . . if you get kicked by a goat, you’ll get bruised. Get hit by a 250-lb. sow, you’re dead."
Still, Lee is persistent. He's trying to develop a method to sooth lactating sows and get close without startling them. He's fresh tasted pig milk. Lee says that it's tasty:
Yes, a bit. It was very viscous, warm, tart. It doesn’t taste that different from cows milk straight out the teat. Most milk tastes gamey when raw. It’s after pasteurization that the real flavor comes out. All the subtleties come out when you make cheese with it. Reducing it and itensifying it and concentrating the flavors. That’s when you notice the differences.
I look forward to trying the cheese that he develops.
It took 6 months of work, but it was time well-spent. Robson Menezes dos Santos created a short animated feature showing his son in the Dragon Ball universe. The Portuguese-language video is embedded below. It features the same voice actors from the Portuguese-dubbed version of the show. There's a lengthy photo show in the middle. You can find the animated parts at the beginning and the 6:59 mark.
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Máté Petrány of Jalopnik has assembled a list of the strangest submarines ever built. Among them is this marvel, a flying submarine.
That's right. This vessel could both fly and travel beneath the surface of the water. An eccentric American engineer named Donald Reid invented it. Throughout the 1950s, he worked on models for flying subs, some of which were radio controlled and completely functional. Reid tried to get the attention of the US Navy, but without success.
In 1958, he patented his design and started to build a prototype in an apple orchard on his property in New Jersey. Reid made the fuselage out of glass fiber and a conning tower out of aluminum. He built in 2 engines: a 60-hp airplane engine and a 1-hp electric motor to power the rear propeller.
His son Bruce donned scuba equipment and tested the craft as a submarine. It did not fully submerge. Part of the wings and the bow stayed annoying out of the water. Bruce was also a student pilot, so he tested it as an airplane. The craft took off quickly, flew to 100 feet in the air, then crashed. Bruce determined that the tail was too heavy. It threw the plane off-balance.
Reid kept working on the design. He also had to work on licensure. Did he need an airplane license or boat license? The New Jersey Department of Conservation decided that it was a boat. The Federal Aviation Agency added it to its list of authorized aircraft.
On June 9, 1964, Reid successfully drove it at 4 knots while submerged 5 feet below the surface of the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey. Then Reid surfaced, removed a protective covering over the airplane engine and few it at 60 miles per hour about 20 feet over the water.
Source:
Massie, Robert K. "The Sub That Sails the Sky." Saturday Evening Post 1 Jan. 1966: 52-54. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy took photos of ordinary buildings, then digitally erased everything but the front walls. The result is a world filled with facades and devoid of depth. He explains its meaning:
The façade is the first thing we see, it’s the surface of a building. It can be impressive, superficial or safe. Just like during a wandering through a foreign city, I walk through the streets with these questions: what will happen if we stick to that first vision? If the daily life of “The Other” was only a scenery? This series thus offers a vision of an unknown world that would only be a picture, without intimate space, with looks as the only refuge.
The series reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town." You can see more images from Gaudrillot-Roy's series at Colossal.
I used to say that hot fudge is the best sundae topping, but now I realize how terribly wrong I was. The best topping is even more ice cream, as the restaurant Café Est! Est! in Tokyo has clearly proven.
Casey Baseel of Rocket News 24 visited the establishment, which is located in a shopping mall. It hopes to be "a borderline religious experience for diners with a sweet tooth." And Baseel really does mean a religious experience, as more photos indicate. If there is a god of ice cream, this is her temple.
The Reuben sandwich is the world's greatest sandwich. It is heaven between two slices of bread, which is perhaps why my French Toast Reuben Nutella Elvis Sandwich was such a hit.
The finest Reuben that I've eaten was about 15 years ago at a now-defunct restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama known as The Oven. It was naughtily served on pumpernickel, not rye, and was roughly the size of a regulation football. It is a precious memory that I shall carry with me for the rest of my life. Reubens are great and this was the greatest among them.
There is one problem challenge to eating a Reuben. A well-made Reuben will inevitably spill out its contents as you eat it. Eating a Reuben is messy. So Nick Chipman of Dude Foods devised this brilliant variation.
Because it's served in a cone, Nick's Reuben sandwich makes less of a mess. He made the cone by pressing rye bread around a cone form, then baking the bread in an oven for 10 minutes. Then Nick filled it with the traditional ingredients of a Reuben: corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Thousand Island salad dressing.
Prepare for a cuteness overload before clicking on the play button. This video will fully satisfy your cute puppy needs for at least the next week.
-via 22 Words
This is Call of the Wild, the latest sculpture series by Herb Williams. From his studio in Nashville, Tennessee, he experiments with different media. For the past decade, he's used crayons. In a 2008 interview, Williams describes how the idea came to him in a dream:
My son woke me up in the middle of the night from a dream at just the right point where (I’ll get into the specifics of the craziest dream I’ve ever had in another interview) I saw a crayon sculpture. I don’t know too much about visions and lucid dreaming, but I do think that the subconscious works out what you can’t, if you just keep at it.
In a documentary about the project, Williams says that when he saw the crayon sculpture, he immediately snapped awake. He had a sketchbook by his bed, so he went straight to work. For the past 10 years, Williams have been living that dream.
Wiliams traces his Call of the Wild series back to learning about synesthesia, which is experiencing something through multiple senses. His sculptures explore how animals might experience color.
-via Visual News
(Photo of a surviving Zero by PENTAX)
In 1943, 2d Lt. Owen J. Baggett of the US Army Air Force was deployed with the Tenth Air Force to India. At the time, Japan occupied Burma and threatened India. Lt. Baggett was the co-pilot of a B-24 bomber.
He was on a mission with the 7th Bomb Group to attack a Japanese position in Burma. His plane was heavily damaged by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M ("Zero") fighters. Lt. Baggett and his crew bailed out.
The Japanese pilots swung around, intent on killing the aircrew slowly descending to the ground on parachutes. A 1996 issue of Air Force Magazine describes what happens next:
The Japanese pilots immediately began strafing the surviving crewmen, apparently killing some of them and grazing Lieutenant Baggett's arm. The pilot who had hit Baggett circled to finish him off or perhaps only to get a better look at his victim. Baggett pretended to be dead, hoping the Zero pilot would not fire again. In any event, the pilot opened his canopy and approached within feet of Baggett's chute, nose up and on the verge of a stall. Baggett, enraged by the strafing of his helpless crewmates, raised the .45 automatic concealed against his leg and fired four shots at the open cockpit. The Zero stalled and spun in.
Baggett made it to the ground safely, but was captured. He spent the next two years in a ghastly prisoner of war camp near Singapore. His captors had a measure of respect for him:
Shortly after he was imprisoned, Baggett, Jensen, and another officer were taken before a Japanese major general who was in charge of all POWs in the area and who subsequently was executed as a war criminal. Baggett appeared to be treated like a celebrity. He was offered the opportunity of and given instructions on how to do the "honorable thing"--commit hara-kiri--a proposal he declined.
The Japanese had found the body of the pilot that Baggett had killed. He was dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Baggett survived the horrors of Japanese captivity and returned to the United States. He later retired to San Antonio, Texas and lived to age of 85.
-via American Digest
DeviantART member CARDI-ology modifies Xbox controllers with pop culture themes, such as Batman and Pikachu. Naturally, these pony controllers caught my eye. I'm especially impressed with the one at the top showing Vinyl Scratch, the most famous DJ in Equestria. Blue and white LEDs in the front give the controller the appearance of nightclub lighting.
When you watch this, you'll swear that it's a spoof--not a real ad televised by a licensed, practicing attorney.
You'll be wrong. Dan Muessig is a criminal defense attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His ad shows a series of actors playing criminals that Muessig has sprung loose from the pokey. It's so preposterously over-the-top that some lawyers find it offensive. Elizabeth Daley writes for Reuters:
Tom Loftus, spokesman for the Allegheny County Bar Association, found the ad “insulting to Pittsburgh lawyers and lawyers across the country, who take great pride in their profession.”
He said he worried that the video could be misinterpreted: “There could be kids watching it, or people who don’t even understand what tongue-in-cheek means, and what they’ll see is: If you commit a crime, this attorney will get you off without any explanation.”
Muessig defends the commercial as a reflection on real problems in the criminal justice system:
“It’s a send-up of the cartoonishly amoral Jewish criminal-defense attorney,” he said. “The criminal justice system is broken, it creates a system where we are basically putting people on a conveyor belt to prison. If you want to get your ire up, get your ire up about that.”
-via Nag on the Lake
