At the Dirt Quake IV rally in King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK, Alan Birtwistle demonstrated how low he could go. With every pass, the track officials lowered the limbo pole just a bit lower.
This should be incorporated into every motorcycle race.
-via Jalopnik
First sea bunnies, now sea sheep? >> http://t.co/LYGFFMYJOq pic.twitter.com/2F6n34RuIv
— AnimalPlanet (@AnimalPlanet) July 22, 2015
This is Costasiella kuroshimae -- the Leaf Sheep. It's appropriately named because it looks like a sheep with green wool. What makes this little fellow so amazing is that it can eat algae and use the chloroplasts inside to absorb energy from light. Ameena Schelling writes for Discovery:
Leaf sheep retain the chloroplasts from the food they eat and use them to manufacture their own energy — just like a plant would. The process, known as kleptoplasty, is only found in certain sacoglossan sea slugs. While leaf sheep aren't particularly good at photosynthesizing, some species can live for months on photosynthesis alone.
-via Geekologie
Kaleb Lechowski's banana came with extra protein. Isn't that nice? Unfortunately, that extra nutrient escaped before he could finish his meal.
Be sure to watch Lechowski's final line.
-via First We Feast
This beautiful and unusual house design is the brainchild of Jono Williams, an engineer and graphic designer in New Zealand. It has 270 square feet of living space and is powered entirely by solar panels. Williams can control all of the electrical appliances with an Android smartphone.
They're not the fashion police, so there will be no citation for that ugly fanny pack that you insist on carrying everywhere. But the New York City Police Department would like for you to wear them on the front instead of the back, if you insist on wearing one at all, which apparently you do.
-via Jalopnik
Farmer Bob found an orphaned baby skunk. So he nursed it back to health. For two weeks, the little skunk lived in his pants pocket. They're best friends.
In this video, writer and producer Barbarella Fokos spends time with the little skunk who goes by the name Sweet William.
The Cambridge Science Centre at Cambridge University is located close to the serene Cam River, where punting is a popular form of recreation. Punting is an athletic activity and punters there are traditionally fueled by Chelsea buns, a type of sweet roll. Specifically, they’re fond of the Chelsea rolls made by a particular bakery and restaurant called Fitzbillies.
To promote their activities, the staff of the Science Centre decided to propel a punt down the river using a rocket instead of oars. The rocket itself would be powered by Fitzbillies buns. They made this engineering miracle work by freezing the buns into a solid block, then blowing nitrous oxide through a hole bored through the center of the block. This produced gas, which produced propulsive force. You can see a video of the successful launch at BBC News.
People who carry selfie sticks aren’t vain, just well-prepared. Our case in point today is Erynn Johns, 16, of Austin, Texas. She and her parents were swimming off the island of Nantucket. Erynn had a GoPro video camera on the end of a selfie stick. When a riptide pulled her under, she was unable to rise to the surface of the water. Her father pulled her up by grabbing onto the end of her selfie stick. The Boston Globe reports:
Lou Lou P’s Delights, a bakery in Leeds, UK, has received a lot of attention since photos of its loaves of bread shaped like cats went viral. If you’re a dog person, then this bakery has something for you too. Under a challenge, Lou Lou P invented the Pugloaf, a pug-shaped loaf of bread. There is no dog more loaf-like than a pug, so before you try to eat a Pugloaf, make sure that it’s not an actual pug.
-via Foodiggity
In 2004, William Shatner released his album Has Been. It included a cover of “Common People,” a song by Pulp. YouTube user LordRicco666 created this video for it, using scenes from classic Star Trek. It’s a truly outstanding job, matching Shatner’s words with the events of the scenes. The video perfectly syncs at two moments, 0:26 and 0:41, during which Kirk mouths the same phrases that Shatner performed nearly 40 years later.
-via Dangerous Minds
Is your dog feeling a bit lonely? Is he looking for casual fun with ladies nearby? What about you? Perhaps there's a nice dog owner out there. Just swipe right.
Tindog is a new dating app. Download it, add a photo of your pup and a few personal details (likes, dislikes) and start looking for a match. It's not a way to find a soulmate. But it may be a great way to have a canine playdate.
-via Huffington Post
P.S. Cat owners, don't despair. There's a Tinder for cats, too.
Mary Graham, a design student at Kingston University in London, writes "A product only has to contain 1% natural elements to be labeled as a natural product." So what is truly natural? If you want to use more natural cosmetics, it's necessary to look beyond the label. That's why she made a set of fake eyelashes that are truly and fully natural products. She found the grass in a forest and used eggs and snow to create the adhesive that holds it together. You can see more photos from her series here.
-via Junkculture
There's a tender line of friendship attributed to the titular character in the Winnie the Pooh stories:
If you live to be 100, I want to live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Jonathan Crossfield says that it's aprocryphal, which is probably for the best. Christopher Robin needs to find relationships that are less clingy.
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Instructables member tomatoskins recently got married. As a result, he’s been on the receiving end of a lot of advice about how to have a happy, trouble-free marriage. He’s been told that one of the challenges of marriage that a couple might fight over the most insignificant issues as they combine households, such as which end of the toothpaste tube to squeeze from.
To head off that problem, tomato skins made a double-headed toothpaste tube. It consists of two toothpaste tubes which have been joined together at the bottom. Now, no matter what end he or his wife squeezes from, it’ll be the right one.
A long time ago in a forest far, far away, good and evil themselves faced off to determine the fate of an arboreal empire. VidGeo reenacted the great lightsaber duel between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi at the end of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. Except this version features chipmunks, which, as we all know, are unusually Force-sensitive.
-via Gifsboom