From her home in Geneva, Celine Rousseau produces La Table. C'est magnifique! Her kitchen gives birth to amazing tarts, pizzas, and charcuterie. This pizza doesn't use cherries, but it does use cherry tomatoes, parmigiano reggiano, and ricotta.
-via Totally Gourmet
One day, a particular employee at a hospital in Catanzaro, Italy stopped showing up for work. He still got paid, though, for the next fifteen years. He was paid the equivalent of $646,545 for that time.
The man is now under criminal investigation, as are six other people at the hospital connected to the incident.
How did he get away with it? BBC News explains:
The employee was a civil servant, and was assigned to a job in the hospital in 2005. It was at this point he stopped going into work, the police said.
The police have also accused him of threatening his manager to stop her from filing a disciplinary report against him.
That manager later retired, police added, and his ongoing absence was never noticed by her successor or human resources.
-via Dave Barry | Unrelated photo by Pixabay
Video director, writer, and all-around Renaissance man Mark Slutsky is on fire lately with brilliant, innovative ideas for products and services that could be in our near future.
Why do we use old fashioned fire alarms that scream at us? That tech is decades old. We can do and build better now.
But wait--there's more! Slutsky is already improving his idea before it hits the prototype stage:
An NFT is some sort of blockchain thing. And don't ask me to define blockchain--just invest my life savings in one.
-via Super Punch
Oliver the cat wants to play, but his human servant needs to work. The two get along well enough thanks to The Loveseat, a chair designed by Stephan Verkaik and Beth Horneman. It's made out of beech wood and recycled polyurethane leather. The exercise wheel can be added to either side of the chair
Katerina Murphy, an artist in Ukraine, makes three-dimensional stained glass sculptures. They're made, specifically, out of sea glass, which is weathered glass that washes up on beaches. Slide a light inside and they turn into vibrant cat lamps.
I don't have much information about this lamp design. But it appears that dropping a steel marble in the top activates the power switch. It takes about 21 seconds for the marble to spin in the video. Alternatively, I suppose, an impatient user could simply drop the marble down the hole.
-via Core77
If you're wearing a mask, how to you hold nails or screws in your mouth while on a home improvement project? Arlen Abraham helpfully suggests gluing a magnet to the inside of your mask. I'd bet that it would also help you keep track of any loose USB flash drives that you need to tote around.
-via Super Punch
Vitaly Vivchar of Tomsk, Russia trained with yoga and freediving techniques before attempting this amazing feat. While holding his breath, he climbed onto a submerged bench and pressed a 110-pound barbell 77 times! In doing so, Vivchar blasted pass the previous record of 62 presses.
Some sources are reporting that Vivchar only completed 76 presses. Either way, the current Guinness World Record is his.
This 4-month old puppy, Emy, found a butterfly in her yard in Brazil. Her humans report that the two played together for over an hour. Such is bliss.
-via Nag on the Lake
Sadly, this product is not widely available yet. It's a one-off created by a friend of Twitter user Danimal Cannon after he joked about pickling cucumbers in Monster Energy drink. Let us hope that the Monster Beverage Corporation seizes upon this brilliant idea and puts these pickles on grocery store shelves all over the world.
-via Super Punch
I don't want my cat to see the bedroom of Michael's Cat lest I get tasked with building a private room for him. The room has all of the essentials: a bed, a rug, art hanging on the wall, and a TV monitor. I don't see a door to ensure privacy, but we can assume that's a work in progress.
-via Super Punch
David Butler would rather not appear in his fiancée's Zoom meetings. Or, perhaps, his fiancée would prefer that he not show up. Either way, he donned a morph suit that Zoom will use to digitally remove him from the background as he passes by.
-via Geekologie
It's like that scene in Starman: red light means stop. Green light means go. Yellow light means go very fast.
Florida Man, the alien living among us, decided that he didn't have time to wait until the drawbridge in Daytona Beach closed again. As it rose, he gunned the engine and was briefly airborne as the two halves of the bridge separated.
-via Dave Barry
At approximately 8.2 feet on an edge, this massive Rubik's Cube is the largest in the world. And it's not a sculpture on display, but playable. This enormous puzzle is located in a mall in Hong Kong, where enterprising players begin solving it at the 1:45 mark. You can watch some of the construction process at the 3:47 mark.
-via Technabob
A gravity clock slowly rolls down an inclined plane. The turning motion powers the clock. To reset it, move it back to the top of the platform. Physics Fun explains:
As the clock rolls down the incline (here 12 hours are captured in time-lapse of 24 seconds), gravitational potential energy is translated into the kinetic energy of the moving clock gear train and oscillating balance wheel. The clock face and mechanism hang suspended with a counterweight that keeps them upright- although you might notice the mechanism of this vintage clock sticks a little at 7 o’clock. The clock unit is also quite heavy, weighing in at 2.7kg (6lbs). After some research I believe this clock was produced in China about 50 years ago.
-via reddit
