Gabe Fonesca, a professional TV writer, understands the importance of breakfast cereal. His YouTube channel is an exhaustive exploration of the sugary glories of our childhoods. His home, appropriately, features a wall that is covered with box after box of classic and obscure cereals, including Smurf Magic Berries and Pink Panther Flakes. You can see more photos of this wonder here.
Fonesca made it by attaching thin sheets of steel to the wall. Tiny magnets hold the boxes in place, so he can adjust and re-arrange them with just a little pressure.
It's time to hit the beach. Cartoonist Cassandra Calin is ready for a new swimsuit. But nothing seems to fit just right or it's just badly designed. Her solution is the right one because Beavis and Butthead are always in style.
To promote its line of heavy dump trucks and excavators, Caterpillar asked professional golf players Erimo and Marimo Ikeuchi, who are twin sisters, to play on a special course that the company made. The neatly manicured green, complete with shrubs, grass, and a flag in the hole, rolled around in the back of a truck as the twins did their best to land their shots.
Rene Turrek, a German graffiti artist, painted a BMW with large images of the Hulk. Then he covered those images with a special type of paint that becomes temporarily transparent when in contact with hot water. It's like those Hot Wheels toy cars that change color when immersed in water.
Owen Lake, 6, lost his stuffed tiger while taking a flight from the Tampa International Airport to Houston. Yes, that's Hobbes from the legendary comic strip Calvin and Hobbes! Through some apparent misunderstanding during a game of Calvinball, Hobbes and Owen got separated.
Owen's mother called the lost and found office and confirmed that Hobbes was there. But, unfortunately, they had to board their flight immediately. Hobbes would have to wait until the family returned to Tampa.
There's a scene in the movie Jurassic World in which animal trainer Owen Grady, played by Chris Pratt, holds off three angry velociraptors using his voice and physical presence alone. Zookeepers love it! Many animal care workers in zoos around the world have been imitating the scene using other animals, including penguins, otters, and rhinoceroses. It's called #JurassicZoo. All zookeepers face dangers like Owen's daily.
Is that Britney Spears from the music video for "Hit Me Baby One More Time"? No, it's Zac Carper from the punk band Fidlar. Their video for the song "40 oz. on Repeat" is a tribute to famous music videos from the past 30 years, including Weezer's "Sweater Song," Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun," and George Michael's "Faith."
They recreated all of the sets and costumes with . . . what, about $5 worth of materials? Most of the work appears to be done with just markers and cardboard. And given those limitations, they did a great job!
How many different music video references can you identify?
Stuart Green's friend's cat lost an eye in a fight. He needs a proper replacement. But in the meantime, he's got this fierce-looking googly eye "to give his confidence a little boost." Green reports that it's working:
@stainedgrids it's started dating again, so confidence is at an all time high
The hustle and bustle of daily life--who needs it? There's way too much verticality in the day. Lie down and conserve your precious energy. Artist Carsten Holler has the right idea. For his "Decision" exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, he offers this interactive work called Two Roaming Beds. They are robots that automatically carry museum visitors around the exhibition while they sleep.
If you get too close to Valerie Susik's drawings of dogs, you may get wet, slobbery dog kisses! These pups aren't limited to paper when they see a ball, toy, or treat nearby. Susik, an artist from Kirov, Russia, photographs her drawings so that they appear to interact with the artist. You can see more on her Instagram page.
If you want to travel along the length of Scotland's Loch Ness, Google Maps offers a few suggested transportation methods: car, bus, and bicycle. These are typical of the service. But because this is Loch Ness, you can also travel with Nessie, the famous cryptid of the lake.
The event is called a kidney transplant chain. It's a sequence of carefully-timed transplants that match donors and recipients for compatibility. UCLA Health explains:
It starts with an altruistic donor - someone who wants to donate a kidney out of the goodness of his or her heart. That kidney is transplanted into a recipient who had a donor willing to give a kidney, but was not a match. To keep the chain going, the incompatible donor gives a kidney to a patient unknown to him or her who has been identified as a match, essentially "paying it forward." A specialized computer program matches donors and recipients across the country.
Adding to the logistical hurdles of so many surgeries, kidneys had to be ferried back and forth between the two hospitals. On Friday, two kidneys were sent from California Pacific to UCSF via a special organ transport service and two kidneys were sent from UCSF to California Pacific for a total of four, 3-mile trips. Two trips were made Thursday.
“Everything went as planned,” said Noel Sanchez, spokesman for Donor Network West. The Oakland company specializes in packaging and transporting organs.
This delicious-looking pizza that I can almost smell through the computer screen is pita pastrmajlija, a cheese and meat pie eaten in Macedonia. It's 1 of 16 breakfast foods from the different nations of Eastern Europe, including a deep-fried pastry from Albania and potato pancakes from Belarus. Most, but not all of the Eastern European nations are represented (Slovakia, Lithuania, and Moldova appear to be absent).
This fellow with a handsome mug is a lamprey, a type of fish. It's a parasite that attaches itself to other fish with its tooth-filled sucker mouth, then sucks the life out of its host. We've all known people like this guy.
He and his friends have been dropping out of the sky outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
