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Road Net Brings Heavy, Speeding Trucks to an Immediate Halt


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Barrier1 Systems is a defense contractor that has developed a number of amazing retractable road blocking systems. The above video shows several of them, starting with a net that can be kept below the surface of the road, then deployed in an emergency. Hitting one of them is like slamming into a brick wall.

Company Website via Geekologie

Teddy Roosevelt-Bear Riding a Laser Eye-Firing Abe Lincoln



Don't you recognize the scene? It's the Battle of San Juan Hill -- July 1, 1898. Criminy, they don't teach kids anything in school these days! It was this battle, among others in Cuba, that led to the development of the 1903 Springfield rifle, as the Krag-Jørgensen proved (as you can see in the picture) to have an inadequate rate of fire compared to the Spaniards' Mausers.

This excellent true to life image from history has been attributed to deviantART user Matthew McKeown.

Gallery Link via Geekosystem

Man Says That Mudflap Girl Is His Mom



The iconic "Mudflap Girl", long seen on America's highways, finally has an identity. Ed Allen of Washington, D.C. says that it's his mother. Allen's father, a trucker, kept a photo of his wife wearing a swimsuit in his rig:

Dad kept the photo in the cab of his truck, which always bore his wife’s name on the hood. When a new corporate owner forbade Stewart from decorating a company-owned vehicle, Stewart put his wife’s silhouette on his trailer’s mudflaps so his boss couldn’t see her when the truck was backed up to a loading dock.

In 1967, Ed Allen said that a local truck-accessories manufacturer named Bill Zinda saw the design. He liked it and, with dad’s permission, started selling it. No one ever trademarked the image, and Mudflap Girl got around a lot during the freewheeling ’70s.


Link via Jalopnik | Photo by Flickr user Brandon Doran used under Creative Commons license

Previously:
Dating Mudflap Girl
Wyoming Library's Mudflap Girl

Anatomical Dress



Rachel Wright made a few dresses from vintage slips and nightgowns that depict the anatomy of the wearer. She's doing so to express an intersection of public and private lives:

The Dream Anatomy series explore these imagined realms inside the body. Because these garments are meant to be worn, the boundary between the internal and the external is blurred. The invisible is made visible: wear your inside on the outside. By using women’s slips and nighties, articles that were not originally intended for public life, I am playiing with the line between the public and the private arenas.


Link via Craft | Artist's Website

Baby Duck vs. Dog


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The baby duck is definitely winning. In fact, he's toying with the dog, as though pushing him around takes no real effort. Com'on dog, your ancestors were wolves. Man up.

via Ace of Spades HQ

Heart Plunging Machine



After one man went into cardiac arrest and his family successfully performed CPR on him with a toilet plunger, Advanced Circulator Systems developed the ResQPump. It's a machine that regulates chest compressions and airflow during the resuscitation process:

According to a study published in The Lancet this winter, the ResQPump, which is used for chest compressions, and the ResQPOD, which prevents too much air from entering the lungs during CPR, could increase certain cardiac-arrest victims’ chances of survival by 50 percent.

The ResQPump works like a toilet plunger, but while decompressing it can draw air back into the lungs. The ResQPOD, cleared by the FDA in 2003, regulates airflow by creating suction in the chest, which draws blood up into the brain.


http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/device-modelled-after-toilet-plunger-improves-cpr-success | Photo: Advanced Circulatory Systems

Previously: CPR Certification at Home with the Nintendo Wii

Dino Planters



This is really cute! Etsy seller PlaidPigeon modified plastic dinosaur toys so that they'd serve as planters. This one is Rick the Dilophosaurus with a Zebra Haworthia Succulent growing in his back.

Link via Dude Craft

New Beard Style: The Monkeytail



Is this brilliant or stupid? Or is the brilliance such that it is indistinguishable from stupidity? Should we force Alex to grow one? Let us ponder these issues.

Link via Geekologie | Photo: The Monkey Tail

Wookiee the Chew in Burned Wood



The marvelous artist James Hance loves to mash up pop culture themes, particularly Star Wars and Winnie the Pooh. Here's one of his recent projects showing Wookiee the Chew walking into the sunset, followed by Piglet D2. At the link, you can view another piece of burned wood showing Eeyore as an AT-AT.

Link | Artist's Website

Awful Taxidermy



Crappy Taxidermy is a photo blog devoted to highlighting the worst works of taxidermy, such as this Santa Fe diesel locomotive. Someone bagged a 16-point buck. That's pretty good!

Link via Doobybrain

Man Sues His Parents for His Allowance, Court Orders Him to Move out and Find a Job

The parents of a 25-year old man in Spain told him to either look for a job or they would stop paying him $588 in monthly allowance. Then they followed through on their threat. So the young man sued them in court. The judge dismissed his complaint and ordered him to move out of their home and find a job:

However, the judge told the man, who has not been named in court documents, that he must leave his parents' house within 30 days.

The judge said the man was studying law, albeit at a slow rate, and would probably not complete the degree for several years, but he thought he was still capable of finding some kind of work.


Link via Lowering the Bar | Photo by Flickr user Tax_Rebate used under Creative Commons license

Amazing Stick Balancing Act


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I'm having trouble finding any information about this video. It appears to show a performer balancing sticks, one on top of another, without dropping a single one. At the very end, he must balance the entire assembly on one remaining, upright stick. How does he do it?

via reddit

Renaissance Paintings of Hockey



No, the NHL isn't that old, but Alexandr Reut is fond of suggesting that it is. He's composed several works showing hockey in a style reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance. This one depicts the Washington Capitals winning the Stanley Cup. If the players are unfamiliar to you, the legend at the article link identifies each one.

eBay Link and Article Link via Copyranter

Road Signs Turned into Furniture



Tim Delger has made some nifty tables and chairs from old road signs, such as the coffee table above. I'd love to see what he could do with a Bucket of Blood Street sign.

Link via Dude Craft

Zombie-Proof House




The architectural firm KWK Promes takes security very seriously. Its "Safe House" design, at the push of a button, drops steel shutters, swings concrete slabs over windows, and lifts a drawbridge. For those of you who think that this is silly (because zombies, unlike vampires and werewolves, aren't real), just remember:

If you’re prepared for the zombie apocalypse, a hurricane is just a storm.


Link via Geekologie | Photos: KWK Promes

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