How can you make Oreos even more Oreo-y? Amy of the wonderful food blog Oh, Bite It! Shows you with her latest recipe. She wrapped Double Stuff Oreos with canned biscuit dough, then deep fried them until they were a rich shade of golden brown. Then she covered them with a glaze that she made with white Oreo stuffing. Now they’re ready to eat—although I would recommend serving them on a tasteful bed of Oreo cookies.
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It lies flat until you pick up the handle. Then it neatly unfolds into a decorative serving dish. I’ve never seen anything like it, but several redditors say that they’re commonly sold by street vendors in Rome. If you have a scroll saw, you can make your own by following these instructions.
DogTilligent has developed a dog collar unlike any other on the market. The All-in-One Smart Dog Collar has GPS, WiFi capability, an accelerometer, a thermometer, a speaker, LED lights, and a microphone. It helps a dog owner keep track of the dog by warning when the collar has traveled beyond a predetermined location. The Virtual Leash warns the dog when it’s moving away from a human companion by whistling, vibrating, and simulating a tug on the collar. Hopefully future versions will also have a display screen and app-uploading capability so that bored dogs can kill time by playing Candy Crush.
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Who is still alive in Westeros? My personal theory is that George R.R. Martin will conclude The Song of Ice and Fire by killing every single human being in Westeros and Essos, leaving only one person alive to take the Iron Throne. King Hodor will then starve to death after accidentally locking himself in a privy in the Red Keep.
We no longer have Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon, or that mischievous rascal Joffrey. They’re all dead. But the eternally underestimated and yet unlucky Tyrion Lannister is still alive. Peter Dinklage, the actor who plays Tyrion on Game of Thrones, sings a boast of this small victory in this short music video. It’s a promotional item for the BBC’s charity fundraiser Red Nose Day.
He ends it with a triumphant mic drop. Well done, Tyrion. May you live for another episode.
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From their homes in the Shire to Mount Doom where they destroyed the One Ring, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee traveled about 1,350 miles. That's the same distance as from Austin, Texas to Los Angeles, California.
Redditor Isai76 created a series of helpful maps that illustrate the distances in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. How far was the journey of the Fellowship from Rivendell to Moria? 175 miles, which is the same distance between London and Manchester. Isai76 has helpfully laid out each leg of the journey of the Fellowship. So start marching.
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Airbnb is offering an increasingly unusual if not eccentric range of property rentals, including a Super Mario Bros.-themed apartment, a hotel room at the top of a ski jump, and a hotel room inside a cable car. Now add to those travel possibilities a fairly ordinary house.
The restaurant doesn’t offer forks? Then just roll up your sleeve and follow the instructions. This prudent design is exactly why people should get tattoos. They’re notes and tips that you carry with you always. I suggest using yours for important pieces of information, like your appointments scheduled for next week.
-via That’s Nerdalicious!
When viewed from the right angle, this arrangement looks like the skyline of London, including Big Ben and the Shard in the background. But unlike the buildings of London, it’s completely edible! Food artist Michelle Wibowo made it out of cookies.
Kristine Smits, the expectant mother in this photo, got more than a sonogram. Photographer Leonie Versantvoort and body painter Marieke Crone worked with her to compose an anatomically correct depiction of the child growing inside of her. This is a great idea that could be improved only by a time-lapse video showing the painting and child growing over time.
You can see process photos here and here (warning: artistic nudity).
-via Huffington Post
You want a burger and fries? The Vulgar Chef can make you own. They’re not separate but together in this ingenious combination (warning: foul language). It’s a simple but innovating concept that all major burger chains should follow. Place a hamburger patty between two slices of cheese, then wrap the whole thing in cooked French fries. Place the assembly in a deep fryer. The result is this divine concoction that needs only pickles and onions to be ready to eat.
-via That’s Nerdalicious!
(Photo: Keith Basterfield)
Ah, Australia: where big spiders explode into hordes of little ones and cobwebs cover entire towns. It is the continent where, more than anywhere else, Nature is trying very hard to kill you in creative ways.
For the residents of Goulburn, New South Wales, that means spiders. Millions of them appear to be raining down from the sky. Now you may argue, “John, that’s not how the water cycle works.” To which I will reply, “But: Australia.” And that reasoning will prevail.
Scientist Martyn Robinson suggests that what’s happening is that baby spiders are engaging in the “ballooning” migration technique. They build streamers of silk which catch the air and carry them away—sometimes as high as 3 kilometers off the ground. Those silks cover buildings and fields in a phenomenon called “Angel Hair.” The Sydney Morning Herald quotes Robinson:
"They can literally travel for kilometres … which is why every continent has spiders. Even in Antarctica they regularly turn up but just die," he said.
"That's also why the first land animals to arrive on new islands formed by volcanic activity are usually spiders."
In some years, the mass migration of baby spiders means "you can have entire fields and paddocks and trees festooned with this gossamer or Angel Hair, as some people call it," he said.
Just be glad that Australia’s snake population doesn’t migrate this way (to the best of my knowledge).
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This is the grave of Julia Nathalie Graham Forsythe. She rests in the Gillespie Evergreen Cemetery in Transylvania County, North Carolina. Three of the biggest events of her life occured on same day of the year--May 14--each of which was a Monday. I've verified this with an online date calculator.
Well all have days like that.
Photo: James Barr, Jr.
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If you think this is what it would be like, make sure that you never vocalize those thoughts. The pains of childbirth will be the least of your rapidly growing collection. Just be patient and complain about being bored while waiting for the baby to be born.
She's not a cinnamon bun. She's a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission. But it would be hard to tell when she's wearing her iconic hair buns. Nadia Lungo, a food artist that we've featured previously, offers this minimalist but totally effective depiction of the gunslinging hero from Star Wars.
Conrad Milster, 78, is the chief engineer at the Pratt Institute, an art school in Brooklyn. He's been there for 57 years, keeping the old steam engines working smoothly. Some of those engines are more than a hundred years old. When Milster needs a new part for them, he mills it out of steel.
Contemplating the realities of retiring and leaving has become unavoidable. The old order is going away. Milster understands. But is is not a comfortable change:
I think about retirement and I'm sort of afraid to make that move. I'm 78. I'm still healthy. I'm still able to come into work. I think that I'm still reasonably mentally stable. I suppose that I'm going to have to think about leaving at some point. And one of the difficulties is that when I leave a lot of things are going to change. Is anyone going to give a damn about keeping the engines in nice looking condition out there? Would any modern manager put up with the incandescent lighting in here? Who's going to take care of the cats when I'm gone?
This short documentary by Dustin Cohen speaks of skill, aging, time, and change. Conrad Milster is an institution at Pratt and his way of life is an institution in American society--at least, for now.
-via American Digest
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