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New seasons of the anime series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Detective Conan have begun. To promote them, an artist in Japan created this amazing anamorphic wire sculpture. From this direction, it looks like Phoenix Wright . . .
. . . and from this angle, it looks like Conan Edogawa.
Here's a video showing the shift:
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Or, when in doubt, cut it a little too long. You can always take more wood off. You can't put wood back on.
Redditor PangurBanHammer brings us this photo. Many commenters offer similar pieces of advice for different professions, as well as amusing ways to teach them. Babygrenade talks about the measure-twice rule in cooking:
My chef friend had a new line cook that overcooked a steak. He told him to stick in the freezer to uncook it a bit. The line cook actually did and then forgot about it, so my friend replaced it with a raw steak before telling him to check on it.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. That's why, when you want a top-grade pizza, you call in The Vulgar Chef.
This week, he went deliciously overboard cooking pizza. He prepared two circles of pizza dough, one slightly smaller than the other. Then he placed between them a whole frozen pizza that he had already cooked and cooled. He baked this assembly briefly, then flipped it over and added toppings, such as cheese and tomato sauce. Most importantly, he added miniature pizzas on bagel bites.
The result is a profoundly pizza-like pizza. It's the Inception of the pizza world. You can find more photos and a production video by The Vulgar Chef here (content warning: foul language).
On March 25, several children near Capel, Surrey, UK were on an Easter egg hunt in a field. At the same time, a police helicopter was pursuing burglary suspects. The children spotted the suspects running into a nearby house.
So the kids lay down in field in the shape of a huge human arrow, pointing at the burglars' hideout. Surrey Police posted the camera footage on Facebook last Friday. Some people thought it was an April Fool's Day joke. But it was real. ABC News reports:
"No. This actually happened," Surrey Police said in reply to the comment on Saturday.
"We were torn whether to wait until tomorrow to release it [because of the April Fool issue] but it was such a good story we needed to share it." […]
The helicopter crew landed nearby after the hunt to thank the children and were treated with a few chocolate treats from the group, which "was an added bonus after a busy shift".
"'I'm sure the last thing the group of daring Capel residents expected when they set out on Friday afternoon was to abandon their Easter egg hunt to assist us in a police search but the initiative they demonstrated proved to be invaluable," NPAS Sergeant Paul Sochon said in the statement.
-via Weird Universe
Here is the ultimate desk for the adventurous spirit!
Smithers of Stamford is a family-operated British firm that restores classic pieces of furniture and turns old equipment into new household furnishings. This prize among their collection is taken from an original American Willys MB jeep. It's now a luxurious desk as robust as the original jeep that provided the body. Even the headlights still work!
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To make a Monte Cristo sandwich, assemble white bread, sliced ham or turkey, and Swiss cheese. Dip the sandwich in egg batter, then either deep fry or pan fry the result. When it's done, sprinkle it with powdered sugar.
Crafted Donuts in Fountain Valley, California offers this sandwich in a marvelous donut form. The traditional fillings, as well as what appears to be strawberry and lemon jelly, fill the interior of this breakfast treat. Yummy!
-via Thrillist
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Would you like to reduce the salt in your diet without losing that nice, salty flavor? The Rekimoto Laboratory at the University of Tokyo may have a solution. It's developed a prototype electric fork that deliverers a mild shock to the tongue of the user. To the brain, this simulates the experience of biting into salty food. Discover magazine explains how it works:
The fork’s electrical jolt is activated with the touch of a button, completing a circuit between your fingers, the metal fork handle and your tongue. When charged sodium ions hit our tongue, their electrical potential activates ion gates that relay messages to our brains. The fork hijacks this system by targeting these ion gates with an electric charge, fooling them into sending a salty signal to our brains.
-via Technabob
To mark last Valentine's Day, Lonac, a Croatian street artist, prepared this mural in Zagreb. He spray painted a human heart in several frames. When viewed in sequence through animation, they show blood flowing through a human heart.
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Darren Wong, a chef in New York City, invented the Raindrop Cake. It's a dessert inspired by mizu shingen mochi, a Japanese dish. It consists of mineral water and agar. You can eat the Raindrop Cake plain, but then it tastes a bit bland. For additional flavor, try adding soybean flour or brown syrup on top.
Wong talked to BuzzFeed about how he developed this unusual dessert:
Wong spent a lot of time on cooking forums to get an idea of what was likely to work and then experimented with a ton of different gelatins and agars.
“The hardest was trying to figure out how to store and transport something so fragile,” Wong said. “That entails packaging each individual cake separately in its own protective cocoon until it’s ready to be served.”
You can eat one at the Smorgasburg, a food fair in Brooklyn.
UPI reports that construction worker Bill Davis and a colleague near Tacoma, Washington discovered that two deer had become trapped in mud at a job site. They used an excavator to gently lift each one out of the soupy mess and place them on dry ground. Here's the first deer.
And here's the second. You can hear, they were very worried that this deer may have been injured and unable to move.
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In 1910, Samuel Clemens, the author who went by the name Mark Twain, died.
This was during the age of Spiritualism--the popular belief that it's possible to communicate with the spirits of the dead through mystical rituals, such as seances. 7 years after Twain died, Emily Grant Hutchings, a journalist, announced that the ghost of Twain had dictated a novel to her through a ouija board. It was titled Jap Herron. Hutchings published it.
The estate of Mark Twain said it owned anything Twain wrote--even while dead--and therefore sued Hutchings for copyright violation. Thus began one of the strangest copyright lawsuits in American history. Parker Higgins writes at Fusion:
Twain’s estate, while skeptical that the book was really authored by the deceased author, said that, if it were, the estate owned the rights to it and publisher Harper & Brothers had a contract to publish it.
At the heart of the case were some novel legal questions: Can the law recognize a dead person as the author of a new work? And if so, could Twain’s ghost (or its human mouthpiece), wiggle out of Twain’s agreement with Harper & Brothers to publish all of his books? Finally, even if those copyright hurdles could be cleared, what about using Twain’s pen name, which the publisher held as a registered trademark? (Twain’s legal name was Samuel Clemens.) […]
So the more firmly they insisted Twain himself was behind the work, the more they strengthened the Twain estate’s copyright argument that it, as the owner of all things written by Twain, owned this book, too. And Twain had a deal with Harper & Brothers that gave it the sole rights to publish books by Twain, so Hutchings and her publisher would have to produce credible evidence that he wanted to break that deal in his afterlife.
Jap Herron, which was probably ghostwritten by Hutchings herself, is now indisputably in the public domain. You can read it here.
-via Jonah Goldberg
Thank you for being a friend who can transform into a magical girl and save the world.
DeviantART member Sparklearmy presents the cast of The Golden Girls as Sailor Moon characters. Blanch is Sailor Mars, Sophia and Dorothy are Sailor Saturn (I think), Rose is Sailor Mercury, and Rose's famous sock puppet is Sailor Moon herself.
Somehow Dorothy's loathsome ex-husband Stan is Tuxedo Mask, which must make things awkward for the Sailor Saturns.
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The 1974 documentary The Texas Chainsaw Massacre describes everyday life in a quiet small town in Texas. At the beginning of the film, a group of kids stop by a gas station in the town of Bastrop. The owner invites the kids in for some of his barbecue.
(Photo: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Gas Station)
That gas station is still standing. And now it's being turned into a real barbecue joint. The owners are restoring it to its original look from the film, as well as adding rental cabins, so you can spend the night there. The New York Daily News reports:
The BBQ joint, which owner Roy Rose described bluntly as a “horror barbecue resort” to KXAN in 2015, is going to have an outdoor stage as well as a cozy lodging option, if you really want to get the complete “Massacre” experience.
“We’re going to build a horror barbecue resort,” Rose said. “It’ll be a safe, and fun and scary place for families and everybody to come and have a good time.”
The horror movie superfan bought the landmark station last year.
His business partner in the endeavor, Ari Lehman, is well-versed in the realm of creepy — he played the role of young Jason Voorhees in the original “Friday the 13th.”
-via Geek Tyrant
Every year, the Easter Bunny visits little boys and girls and gives them presents, usually chocolate candy, colorful eggs, and jelly beans. The Easter Wolverine fills in for him in rougher neighborhoods. Don't try to take his goodies away, or you'll end up with a few carrots jammed in your belly.
Ernie Estrella and Mike Avila of Blastr visited WonderCon this year and photographed the cosplayers, of whom this unknown Easter Wolverine is the funniest.
-via Tor
Officer Scott Marsh of the Huntington Beach Police Department in California spotted a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot last Wednesday. He discovered that a woman and her 11-year old daughter were living in it. He called in the department's Homeless Task Force to assist them.
While they were talking to the mother and trying to find ways to help her, Officer Zach Pricer distracted the girl by teaching her how to play hopscotch. The Orange County Register quotes department spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Marlatt:
“It distracted her from an adult problem,” Marlatt said.
Pricer, a 13-year veteran, said he used hopscotch as a tool to learn more about the girl’s welfare.
“For an 11-year-old girl, to see a police officer towering over her is a scary thing,” said Pricer, 38. “I was trying to break the ice and get her to feel comfortable with me.”
On Thursday, a Homeless Task Force officer was working to find housing for the mother and daughter.
-via AP
