Some snooty know-it-all may correct you when you mention Frankenstein. "No, no--that's Frankenstein's monster. His creator is named Frankenstein. You should read the book instead of some lame horror movie."
That just shows you that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Chip Zdarsky, a comic artist, found the original manuscript to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. If you read to the very end, you'll see that the monster is also named Frankenstein.
-via Tor
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These days, it can be really hard for young people to break into their careers. Many have to endure long, unpaid internships to get the necessary skills and contacts for a paid entry-level position.
But not the interns at the World of Beer. This restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida is offering to pay its interns. There's just one catch: those 3 interns must travel around the world attending beer festivals and drinking beer.
So it's a task for only the hardy. UPI reports:
The interns, who would each be paid $12,000 in addition to their food, lodging and travel expenses, would be required to write about their beer-tasting adventures for the company's website.
"Whether you're a photographer or writer, social media maverick or beer blog surfer, we are looking for you. Adventure seekers and storytellers, beer experts or novices, brewery nerds and foodie fans all open to apply. So if you want to live, drink and tell the tale to the world, get ready to apply for the chance to share your experience as a Drink It Intern," World of Beer said on its website.
It's not just meat. It's art! Keiran Gormley is the meat department manager at the Uwajimaya grocery store in Seattle. He's the Michelangelo of the meat grinder. Gormley takes beef and pork and turns them into vivid sculptures that are almost too good to eat. Most recently, he sculpted Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy from Teen Titans Go!
Tori of Gringalicious is ready for Easter breakfast. She's wrapped miniature Cadbury Creme Eggs in donut dough, deep fried them, then dusted them with sugar.
And because that doesn't go far enough, she also prepared chocolate and vanilla-flavored marshmallow fluff. It's a perfect dip for these donut holes, as well as pretty much anything else in the kitchen. You can find her full recipe here.
-via Tasteologie
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Tattoo needles don't come with built-in spellcheckers, so sometimes some corrective work is necessary. In this case, the creative solution was to treat the original like an assignment handed in to an English teacher. He's a bit a sloppy with his coffee cup, but his command of spelling is perfect.
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The shoplifter entered a Tesco supermarket in Burkit Mertajam, Malaysia. He was unemployed and his wife was comatose due to complications from childbirth. He was, in short, desperate.
He grabbed $6.68 worth of food and tried to slip out the door. But a manager caught him. Remarkably, the manager decided not to press charges. Instead, he offered the man a job. The Star reports:
The store’s general manager Radzuan Ma’asan, who interrogated the man, decided to take a different approach in dealing with the crime.
Warning him never to steal again, he offered the man a job at the store.
“The man’s situation really touched our hearts. We visited his relative’s house. It was so empty and poor,” he said yesterday.
Radzuan said his staff visited the man’s wife who is now out of coma. The baby however did not survive the birth complication.
Radzuan said the store had yet to decide what type of job to offer the man. “He was not a regular thief. When we questioned him, he immediately confessed, saying that he stole the fruits and drinks because his son was hungry.
“In my 23 years of experience in the retail line, I had never come across thieves who admitted their act so easily. Most would give all kinds of reasons. He also told us that he was unable to work as he has to look after his three children, aged two to seven.
“So, we decided not to lodge a police report as this was a genuine case of extreme poverty.
“For now, our priority is to ensure that he enrols his seven-year-old son in a school,” said Radzuan, who handed the man cash to cover his current expenses.
When I was 6 years old and grocery shopping with my mother, I saw a man slip a can of tuna into his pocket. I pointed him out to my mom and said that we should turn him in. "No, John. If he's stealing a can of tuna, then he really needs it." That was an important lesson.
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Jasper Ruben did more than build an exercise wheel for his cats. That's fun for the cats, but fun does not equal data. And if it's not data, it doesn't exist.
So Ruben programmed a Raspberry Pi to track his cat's exercise performance. Hack A Day explains:
The wheel now features a Raspberry Pi which can track speed, calculate distance traveled, and determine the equivalent running speed of [Jasper’s] feline companions.
To calculate the speed of the wheel, [Jasper] is using a small coil sensor (similar to how bicycle speedometers work). Six nails in the wheel trigger the sensor. Once the data is on-board the Pi, some simple calculations allow [Jasper] to provide a few different metrics on how effective the cat exercise is. A webcam sends a live stream of the wheel online with a data overlay for your viewing pleasure.
The good folks at HTD arrange 6,000 matches into a tight rectangle. Then they light a single match in the corner. That one ignites, then spreads to its fire to its neighbors. The wave of flame sounds like a violent wind.
The fire continues, gradually burning into ashes. It's an almost meditative experience. The 6,000 matches are your worried for the day. The flame is your peace within. Or an entire gallon of ice cream--really, whatever works for you.
-via Geekologie
Joey Muha is a heavy metal-style drummer in Port Dover, Ontario. He's so good that he can turn even the children's song "I'm a Little Teapot" into a headbanging thrill.
He does many covers of other songs that you might not associate with heavy metal music, including the theme songs to Gilligan's Island, Bob the Builder, and The Little Mermaid.
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Edgar Artis, a professional fashion illustrator, sometimes draws dresses that you'll never see on the runway. Recently, he's been drawing women wearing dresses made out of food. His vivid gowns include lemon slices, kiwifruit, cake frosting, and popcorn.
(Photo: Jim Tshetter)
Now here's a fresh, vibrant look for a kitchen! And the dining area offers a great view for a breakfast.
It was a hundred-year old church in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago. But Linc Thelen Design and Scarfano Architects turned it into a modern house. They used the cavernous interior to create a spacious residence for a family.
This is 1 of 8 old churches turned into homes rounded up by The Contemporist. They all make use of large spaces in novel ways to create private abodes. I especially like the retention of window frames that are unusual in modern houses.
As you roll your shopping cart through the grocery store, you glance at your shopping list. The next item is pasta. But which among the many brands will catch your eye first?
Nikita, a designer in Moscow, makes this suggestion. He's developed a line of packaging concepts that make boxed pasta look like hair. The noodles become luxurious, fashionable hair in addition to food. You can see more digital renderings of the boxes here.
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It's not polite to stare, but you'll be in for quite a show if you do so at these dresses by Ying Gao. He's a textile artist in Québec. Gao calls this project from 2014 (No)where (Now)here.
It consists of two dresses covered with a layer of fibers. When eye-motion sensing cameras determine that someone is looking at them, the fibers writhe like living tendrils. The effect is even more startling when the lights are turned off.
The Predator forgot the dental module of his med-kit while packing for his hunting trip on Earth. Now he's having a rough time at the dentist's office.
Artist Simon Lee made this funny, detailed sculpture after listening to a real-life horror story from one of his friends about a visit to a dentist. Which tooth needs a filling? If it bleeds we can fill it.
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In 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Maryland was a slave state. There were many Confederate sympathizers in the state. There was a small chance that, left to its own devices, Maryland might have secede from the Union.
But the capital of the United States government lay on the southern edge of Maryland, so President Lincoln took no chances. For much of the war, Maryland would be occupied by Federal forces deployed to fight the Confederacy in Virginia.
It would be an ugly war, as Maryland would discover early on. One of the first outbreaks of violence was a riot in Baltimore on April 19, 1861--just a week after the Battle of Fort Sumter. Federal troops and pro-Confederate Marylanders brawled. Several of those Marylanders were killed.
Among the fatalities was a friend of James Ryder Randall, a journalist who would later join the Confederate Navy. In grief and anger over his loss, Randall wrote the song "Maryland, My Maryland." It includes this passage:
Maryland!
The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
"Maryland, My Maryland" became a Confederate war song and, eventually, the state song of Maryland. But now legislators want to remove the secessionist elements of the song. The Post-Star reports:
Sen. Robert Cassilly, a Republican, said it was wrong to try to eliminate parts of the state's history.
"Our song doesn't belong to the Confederacy. It belongs to us," he said.
Cassilly said the song celebrates the courage of people who are willing to stand up and fight for what they believe in, even if they turn out to be on the wrong side of history.
"It is what it is, but we learn from history, we learn from each other and we build upon it, so the idea that we're trying to excise our history is just, I don't think that's America," Cassilly said. "That's not what we're about." […]
The song calls for Maryland to secede from the Union — at a time when Maryland residents sympathized with the Confederacy. The song begins with a hostile reference to Lincoln, who brought troops through Baltimore to protect Washington: "The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland!"
-via Marginal Revolution
