You can do this. Do you remember that time your wife told you to buy a specific shirt from the catalog for her birthday? She said she wanted magenta. Empty your mind except for the moment you selected the color.
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The photo sharing app Instagram rolled out its new logo this week. So if you look for Instagram on your phone, this is the symbol that you're searching for.
Matt Haughey noticed that it looks a lot like the horrified subject in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. Munch composed that famous image after this moment of inspiration:
I was walking along the road with two friends
The Sun was setting – the Sky turned blood-red.
And I felt a wave of Sadness – I paused
tired to Death – Above the blue-black
Fjord and City Blood and Flaming tongues hovered
My friends walked on – I stayed
behind – quaking with Angst – I
felt the great Scream in Nature
So I challenge the Mona Lisa and Whistler’s Mother
I can't think of a better metaphor for using Instagram that this experience.
-via Althouse
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The rounded, almost spherical forms have a lot of aesthetic appeal. That's why Taiwan's latest café craze is bubble tea served in light bulbs.
Bubble tea, which is a tea-based drink that has balls of tapioca resting in the bottom, originated in Taiwan. Now that country is upheaving the tea game again by serving it in huge light bulbs. Rocket News 24 keeps us abreast of the development:
Perhaps hoping to jump on the trendy train, a Taiwanese bubble tea store is employing both good-looking women and an idea like a lightbulb going off over your head. [...]
Instead of regular plastic cups, this bubble tea is served in a gigantic lightbulb. It’s a bit unclear whether these are repurposed bulbs or brand new lightbulbs without filaments, but these drinks are definitely getting some light shined on them.
You can see more photos at Rocket News 24.
There have got to be easier ways to get rejected. And from extensive experience, I can confirm that there definitely are.
Tong Aonan of Shenyang, China wanted to express his romantic interest in his neighbor. So, over a 2 month period, he made an enormous mosaic portrait of her. He composed the design in Photoshop, then executed it in 840 Rubik's Cubes that he purchased for $460.
She said no.
CNN reports that Tong isn't sure what to do with it now:
He says he has no hard feelings towards her. Although he wasn't able to win her heart, he said she was moved by the gift and has accepted it.
"I hope they will stop making personal comments about her (online)."
Tong said that he likes playing with the puzzles in his free time as he doesn't like going out and socializing.
The portrait is still sitting in his home and he says his next "puzzle" is how to move it.
This whole endeavor seems very inefficient. When I was his age, I could have been rejected by 20 women in the same time that he spent getting rejected by one.
-via Shanghaiist
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As luck would have it, I am wearing cargo shorts and just took off my phone holster, which I wore while taking my kids to a park.
Zach Weinersmith, who is himself a father, understands that conception changes not only a woman's body, but a man's as well.
Fans of the Chicago Bears football team were excited! Inside this giant claw machine was a life-size plush verison of Staley, the team mascot. It would be an incredible prize, if only they could move it to the drop bin.
What they didn't know was that the plush bear was actually a person inside a Staley suit.
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The Siberian Husky knows how to play this game. Like a human hot tub, the dog Slush Puppie machine is the perfect way to relax.
In about a month, I'll want one of these for myself.
-via reddit
UPDATE 5/16/16: Commenter Frau helpful points to the source video, as well as another video of the same incident. It's in Thailand.
The last panel nails the blogging experience. Blogging is a fast, user-friendly way to get ignored in not only real life, but the online life as well. It's also a great way to never meet fascinating people.
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Molly DeLuca of Tampa, Florida was in her backyard, watching her 7-year old granddaughter and Haus, her 2-year old German Shepherd, play. Suddenly, the dog reared up and leaped in front of the girl. Haus fought a diamondback rattlesnake that had sneaked into the yard and saved the little girl's life.
The snake bit Haus 3 times, almost killing him. Haus is now in intensive care for the severe kidney damage that he suffered from the venom. The AP reports:
The snake's venom damaged the dog's kidneys. Vets now expect a full recovery, but it won't be cheap: Each day in the ICU costs between $1000 to $1500, and each vial of anti-venom costs $618. Haus is averaging 4 or 5 vials per day as the poison leaves his system.
Fortunately, public recognition of Haus's heroics have led to overwhelming support for his GoFundMe project. He has received $35,000 after starting with a goal of $15,000.
-via Jonah Goldberg
At 81, he's seen everything. Zombies aren't going to worry him at all. Even though he's surrounded by ever-growing hordes of the undead, the old man shoots and slugs his way to survival.
YouTube user Microe Waves set up an HTC Vive virtual reality system at his grandfather's house. He writes, "he got a little too immersed."
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What do you do if your friends come over and drink all of your beer? You need a hidden supply to keep for emergency purposes.
Peter Götting of Germany is prepared. He built a 3-tiered beer stash of 30 bottles that rises and sinks with the pull of a lever. If you don't know about it, the machine looks like an ordinary garden planter.
I sense a Nobel Prize in this man's future.
-via Geekologie
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It's a radical approach to chocolate-making: mix bone marrow chips into chocolate to make it taste richer. That's what the Doughnut Project bakery in New York City did with the assistance of a local butcher shop for the filling of this donut. Grub Street reports that each one costs $5.25.
Bakers, please tell us what effect this ingredient would have on the chocolate. I'm rather baffled by it.
-via First We Feast
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Riley, a 5-year old Golden Retriever in Belmont, North Carolina, has been coming to the Happy Dog Café dog daycare facility all of his life. He loves the place, as he can always meet and play with friends.
So he recently decided to visit on his own. He didn't ask his owner, Tonia Montseller. Instead, one day, he just took off and walked over a mile until he reached the daycare. Then he sat outside the door until a human went in.
The daycare owner, Teresa McCarter, found Riley and took him in. She called Montseller and let her know that Riley had decided to spend the day with his friends. This time, McCarter said, Riley's stay was free.
-via Telegraph
This innocent cat gets an eyeful the first time he watches Alfred Hichcock's Psycho. Just as Hitchcock intended, his tension builds until it explodes.
Andrew Parrish edited this video of his cat, who is actually looking at a toy. He's too young to watch horror movies.
-via Tastefully Offensive
Never mind flying cars. This is what we've all been waiting for. Since the days of the old commercials promoting the idea of blending peanut butter and chocolate, the obvious next step has been to combine Reese's Pieces candies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
I mean, if you already have a centaur and a pegasus, you might as well cross-breed them and see what happens, right?
So the Reese's candy brand is producing the two treats together. This confectionary pega-taur should be available in stores in July.
-via Foodiggity
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