This is excellent! Besides being stylish, kilts are also practical wear as they permit natural ventilation into the, uh, Heart of the TARDIS. And there will be no need to go on a diet. No matter what you weigh, you'll look slimmer in this kilt by Kilt This.
Like any proper utilikilt, it comes with 2 large pockets, 3 additional containers, an apron sporran, and D-rings for your gear, such as screwdrivers--sonic and otherwise.
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Do you need to leave your dog outside the store while you step in for a few minutes to buy something? You can tie your pup up, but he may not be safe. Here's an alternative solution.
Dog Parker is a new start-up business with 5 locations in Brooklyn, New York. It's a box that sits outside shops. Members can slide a security card to unlock the box. There's a padded floor inside and the box is temperature controlled. When you return, just slide your security card again to retrieve your dog.
The charge is 20¢ a minute plus a $25 annual fee. Members can use a box for a maximum of 3 hours every 12 hour period. If the temperature gets below 32°F or above 85ºF, the Dog Parkers are closed until the weather improves.
The company is developing a mobile app that will permit members to reserve a time slot in advance, as well as monitor their dog remotely.
Here's a demonstration video:
Dominic Wilcox is an artist noted for his crazy inventions, such as the breakfast digger and the smartphone nose stylus. He decided to tap into the creativity of 450 children in Sunderland and South Tyneside by asking them to design inventions. Then he asked local makers to turn their designs into reality. Wilcox calls the project Inventors.
It really worked! For example, Wendy Ridley, age 9, wanted a family-sized scooter. She got it--right down to her specific color scheme:
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Bavaria Films is a movie production company in Germany. Like Universal Studios has its own line of theme parks and resorts, so does Bavaria Films have its own fun park available to the public.
The 1984 children's fantasy film The NeverEnding Story has become among the company's most treasured classics with an enduring fanbase. Many props from the film are there, including the Southern Oracle and Morla. You can even ride Falkor, the luck dragon from the story.
When putting together an adventuring party, it's important to include a cleric to heal injuries along the way. A high-level cleric may not offer great combat abilities, but is essential to keeping the party effective on dangerous missions.
Redditor LinkGrajo13's character got hurt and needed a quick healing job. And so:
My friend came into our weekly session with a new cleric. When I asked him to heal me, he handed me this
This is, by the way, only the first form. The cleric in question showed up in the discussion thread with a complete list of the forms, which you can download and use--until there is a regulatory change that requires you to start over.
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It was June 24, 1977. The scene: Madison, Wisconsin. A 17-year old boy was about to get into a fight with two other boys at a gas station where he worked.
That's when the King of Rock 'n' Roll showed up:
Suddenly, a limousine pulled up and out stepped an overweight, middle-aged man in a blue jumpsuit. He walked up to the struggling parties, struck a karate pose and told them, “All right, I’ll take you on.”
This man was Elvis Presley.
The two attackers recognized him and immediately backed down. Elvis asked them all, "Is everything settled now?" It was. Elvis got back in his car and left.
(Photo: Badger Herald)
Appropriately, there's now a memorial plaque at the site where this amazing event took place. It's called the Elvis Karate Fight Memorial Plaque and, thankfully, it's open to the public.
Be the Elvis that you want to see in the world.
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Working as a professional football player is a full-time job. But that's not stopping John Urschel, a defensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, from picking up a side hustle. In his case, that's working through a doctoral degree in math at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Adam Epstein of Quartz reports that Urschel plans to study "spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning."
While Urschel and his colleagues on the Ravens went to the playoffs last year, he wrote a paper titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fielder Vector of Graph Laplacians." Now in an off season, he's back at work on his degree. Quartz quotes Urschel describing his motivation to play:
“I play because I love the game. I love hitting people.”
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Devon Hawkins was just chilling at home in Quincy, Illinois, drinking a bit, when someone shot through his back window, hitting him in the chest. He casually chatted with KHQA news reporter Reyna Harvey about the incident like he's describing a trip to a local grocery store. If it's a big deal to Hawkins, it's hard to tell because he's incredibly relaxed about the entire incident.
Content warning: foul language.
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For Peechaya Burroughs, a photographer in Sydney, Australia, balloons are the perfect prop. When framed the right way in a picture with the proper background, they become eggs, donuts, water, and more. You can find more of her work on Instagram.
It's still January and you are about to take your full annual capacity of cuteness. Enjoy this video of newborn puppies and a baby napping together. Just be aware that it will not be safe to watch anything else that is cute because this video alone is nearly a lethal dose.
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(Photos: Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service)
Bumper and Thumper are rabbits that live at a group home for adults with mental health issues in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. They have a hutch on the side of the house. A storm blew down the hutch and Bumper up on the roof, leaving him stranded.
Firefighters responded to the scene. They coaxed Bumper down, who is now safe back in the hutch with Thumper.
In the beginning, the first chapter of the Book of Genesis tells us, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without web content. So on the eighth day, after he had rested, he wrote search-engine optimized web articles in slideshow format with clickbait titles. In McSweeney's, Kendra Eash retells this Bible story for an internet age:
In the beginning God created the Internet. And the Internet was without form, and void; and God said, let there be Content; and there was Content. And God divided the content among Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr.
And God said, Let the Content multiply at the hand of the people; it can really be anything.
Even, just, like, playing yogurt cups like bongos, the Lord God said. Or reviewing a Bath and Body Works candle. It’s wide open.
Except nipples, God added. Just women’s nipples are off limits.
And God said, Let the Content be sponsored by all the brands of the earth; Nike and Adidas, Apple and Google, Scion and Ford, Always and Tampax, for Content might influence a primary sales objective.
Be sure to read it all, especially the last line, which is perfect.
-via Popped Culture
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If you're with someone at the time, then, like the old joke says, you don't have to outrun the T-Rex. You just have to outrun your friend.
But what if there's no one else available to distract the hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex? Good news, everyone! According to calculations that scientists made from preserved footprints, you can probably outrun a T-Rex--at least for a short distance. Discover magazine reports:
The researchers estimated the walking speed of the T. rex to be 2.7 to 5 mph, which is much slower than, say, Usain Bolt, who clocks in a maximum sprinting speed of 27.3 mph. For context, the average walking speed for a human hovers around 3 mph. The calculated speed indicates T. rex was traveling at a slow trot, and at a speed similar to other large carnivorous dinosaurs. Still, even when walking, tyrannosaurs moved covered more ground in a single step than the large herbivores that they coexisted with and presumably hunted. Researchers published their Glenrock trackway findings in the journal Cretaceous Research.
But how does this fit with previous estimates of T. rex speed, based on other lines of evidence? Tony Martin, a trace fossil expert and professor at Emory University and unaffiliated with the study, said the new findings are in line with past estimates.
“Biomechanical studies of tyrannosaur bones, combined with calculations of their musculature and computer models, tell us that tyrannosaurs were more suited for walking and probably could not outrun, say, a jeep,” says Martin. [...]
Based on the evidence, it seems like anyone in decent shape could’ve outrun a T. rex.
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Mimo the cat is asleep. And when she sleeps, she's totally out. So the first mouse crawls over her. There's no response. More mice come out to play . . .
. . . and Mimo doesn't notice! Eventually, 21 mice climb on top of Mimo, who doesn't stir.
They should use this time for something more productive, such as raiding the cheese supply!
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(Image: Mattel, Will McFadden)
Mattel recently announced that Barbie dolls will be available in 4 different body types, not just the original blonde with measurements of 39-18-33 when scaled up to life-size. They include a model who is all about that bass with a more rubenesque figure. The toymakers hope to promote a more positive body image among young girls who play with Barbie dolls.
But what about Ken? He's thin and muscular---in fact, he's totally ripped. Who among us men can compete with this fantasy image that women are raised to accept as ideal? Not those of us with "dad bods." That's why some people on the intellectual discussion forum of Twitter are saying that Mattel should add a more realistic Ken to date Barbie.
