Facehuggers from the Alien science fiction horror movie franchise are a symbol of love and affection. That is, after all, why they hug humans that they encounter. So it is appropriate that Timmy Hanno, a baker in Oak Lawn, Illinois, made this raspberry-filled fritter for his girlfriend, Brittany Ann Martin.
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This is Georgia Page, an Australian student who plays rugby for Lindenwood University in Missouri. She’s a tough, savage competitor. She broke her nose during a match against Notre Dame, but still went on to tackle two other players before a referee ordered her off the field to seek medical attention. Here’s the play:
A gentleman is discreet. Whatever vices he may have are hidden from public view. For that, he needs the Gentleman’s Surprise Chair. Although I cannot be certain, I think that it was once owned by M.S. Rau Antiques of New Orleans. One compartment hides from public the owner’s use of playing cards:
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For more than 500 years, the Lithuanian village of Ramygala has been renowned for its goats. They're the prettiest in the land! That's why, every year, the villagers hold a beauty pageant for its caprine maidens, who dress in their finest for the occasion. You can see photos of the contestants at The Daily Telegraph (auto-start video).
Last year, fashion designer Jeremy Scott developed a series of dresses for the Moschino fashion house. They include this eye-catching dress that looks like a sales tag. It's a critique on consumerism. I'll wait until it reaches the clearance rack before considering it again.
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How do you want to start the day? The best answer is "later." But if you must wake, then there's probably no better sound to stir you than that of a young child giggling. That's why the design firm Ideo developed the Lolzzz clock. When it's time to wake up, the clock physically rocks back and forth. The recorded laughter of Quinn, a 5-year old girl, plays. To make her laugh louder, tickle the clock's belly button.
Lolzzz is one of three inventions in the monYay! collection of time-management devices that will help you enjoy rather than dread life on a fixed schedule. The others are a bubble-blower calendar alert system and a Bluetooth-enabled tin can.
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Well, perhaps not the next immediate installment of the series. Jurassic Park is not so much a series with a fixed beginning and eventual ending, but a cycle. And in the first of the Human Park components, a reanimated Chris Pratt will play a dinosaur-eating primitive.
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"Mr. Worf, fire." With those words closed part 1 of "The Best of Both Worlds." When that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired 25 years ago this weekend, it was hailed as the greatest cliffhanger in Star Trek history.
The Borg, which were the greatest threat to the Federation in its history, had invaded and captured Captain Picard. They assimilated Picard and made him a Borg drone. In the midst of rumors that actor Patrick Stewart was leaving the show, the first part of the episode ended with Commander Riker ordering the Enterprise to open fire on the Borg cube containing the captive Picard. Fans were electrified.
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This is how Nature says, "Do not touch." In its pupal stage, the Dynastor darius butterfly looks like the rearing head of a snake. If you're searching for a snack and would like to prey upon a a vulnerable insect, you might take a pass on this one. Although it's still in its chrysalis, the Dynastor can shake from side to side, which only heightens the illusion. You can read more about it at Discovery.
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Dr. Randal S. Olson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in artificial intelligence, but is curious in other directions, including marriage. So he charted out the per capita number of marriages and divorces in the United States from the late 1860s to the present. You can find an interactive version of his chart here. It permits you to view data from individual years that Olson surveyed.
He notes that there are spikes in both marriage and divorce following World War II. That makes sense, as the stresses of the war could break apart marriages or prompt people who had delayed marriage for the war to get hitched promptly.
Marriage went into relative free fall during the Great Depression. But by the 1970s, it had become nearly universal. Now, Olson notes, the US has the lowest marriage rates since the Great Depression. Why do you think this is the case?
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Human Faire is my favorite event of the year. We get a truly authentic experience of life before the Revolution. My favorite part is the human duplication simulation. And, of course, the jousting. The humans must have been such fascinating creatures!
The only thing worse is when dead skeptics surface and try to prove to my customers that I'm a fake. I'll probably just shut down the shop when James Randi passes away.
There's so much fail packed into this 15-second video! The comedic moment comes at the end, with the anguished cry of a child, "That was our soccer ball!"
Not shown: a piano falling on the man 5 seconds later, right after he runs off a cliff while chasing the Road Runner.
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Since the 1989 premier of Disney's animated feature The Little Mermaid, we've been a part of Ariel's world. It's been 26 years since that movie came out, but the undersea princess still resonates with generations of fans. She's inspired many cosplayers. Here are some of the best, such as this Hipster Ariel.
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Do you have enough to worry about right now? No? Well, then have I got a deal for you! From now on, you have to be afraid that whilst driving down the road, a 5-foot tall circular sawblade may fly at your car and almost cut it apart.
A man in Chongqing, China had the fright of his life when a sawblade in the back of a trailer hauled by another motorist flew out and cut 20 inches into his car, directly into the driver's side. The driver was uninjured, but, the Daily Mail reports, "he was barely able to stand up when he got out of the car because his legs were shaking."
Giant sawblades: they could be anywhere, waiting for you. Plan accordingly.
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