While in Shanghai, BMX champion Pat Laughlin performed an incredible stunt. He jumped a bike and, while in midair, jumped off that bike, landed on another, and kept going without interruption.
I hope that he wore a protective cup.
Laughlin didn’t succeed on his first try. No, he had to hit the ramp hard several times before he finally made the jump successfully. You can see his other attempts here.
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Can you see it? It’s right there in the still image of the video. This ninja of the sea is almost upon you, but it remains hidden. And it’s not limited to water, I’ll bet. Right now, it could be sneaking up on you, even in the alleged safety of your home. It’s right there next to you!
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In rather blunt terms, the police of North Adams, Massachusetts ask that you not get drunk, then chase bears through the woods while waving a dull hatchet:
**Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not advised**
The North Adams Police Department is urging everyone to NOT chase bears through the woods with a dull hatchet, drunk. Yes that really did happen tonight. We understand there are bears in the area. If you see a bear, LEAVE IT ALONE and call us. We certainly don’t need anyone going all Davy Crockett chasing it through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet. It is just a bad idea and not going to end well. It will however, certainly end you up in jail…which it did. The hatchet man was taken into protective custody due to his incapacitation from the consumption of alcoholic beverage. We are still trying to figure out what his end game was. Any thoughts on what he was going to do if he did locate it? We would certainly like to hear because we have no idea.
In recent weeks, residents have spotted bears in the vicinity of town. Most people heeded police warnings to leave them alone. One chemically enhanced gentleman decided on another course of action. He apparently survived the encounter.
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Except for the straw, this entire milkshake is edible. Perry Santanachote of Thrillist made it at the decree of an editor of that magazine. It’s an amazing piece of candy bar engineering. Judging from the instructions that she provides, it was also very difficult—especially the glass. That container is made of a homemade Snickers bar shaped like a rectangle, then wrapped around a glass and sealed watertight (or milkshake-tight). If my editor commanded me to make such a milkshake, the results would certainly be different.
On rare occasions, while cooking with chicken eggs, you may encounter twins—two yolks in one egg. But Twitter user @Umeboshi had a far more astounding encounter: she claims that of the dozen eggs in a carton, every single one had two yolks. Casey Baseel of Rocket News 24 suggests how this could have happened:
Egg farmers can tell whether or not a hen has laid a double-yolk egg without cracking it open. The shells of double-yolk eggs tend to be longer and more pointed than those of single-yolks, and the two yolks can also be seen when using a light to inspect the contents of the egg without cracking it.
Double-yolk eggs taste just the same as single-yolks ones, and some people actually feel lucky to discover one. Not everyone is left with such a positive impression, though. Some shoppers find them kind of gross, and so to avoid shocking their more sensitive customers, egg farmers generally remove them from any batches before they’re shipped to market, as pointed out by Mitsuko.
Photographer Alice Smeets explores the intersections of the occult and the mundane. In the past, we’ve seen her pictures of modern practitioners of witchcraft. More recently, she’s been recreating the iconic images on tarot cards using ordinary people on the streets of Haiti. She calls the project Ghetto Tarot. You can see more photos in the series at Design Boom.
Basehunters is a storm chasing club. While tracking tornadoes near the town of Eads on Saturday, a few members spotted this lovely scene of a tornado crossing a rainbow.
It’s completely real. The tornado chasers recorded video footage of their thrill ride that day. You can see the tornado rainbow at the 3:00 mark in this video. Basehunters member Benjamin Jurkovich told ABC News that he’s never experienced anything else like it:
"This was just remarkable," Jurkovich told ABC News today when asked about Saturday's storm. "There's not many things that blow my mind, but this was truly wowing." […]
Jurkovich also said that chasing tornadoes and severe storms make him a feel a reverent kind of nervousness, which he described as "adrenaline mixed with a little bit of butterflies."
"I have a bible verse I use for storm chasing, Nahum 1:3, which says that God is the god of the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet," he said. "When I'm looking at these massive, ridiculous storms and tornados that scare the crap out of me, it's just like, wow, this is the dust of God's feet. It puts me in a state of awestruckness and makes me feel small, which is a good place to be."
This event gives me hope that someday, we could actually see a real sonic rainboom.
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The original PlayStation--Generation 1, not 4--debuted in 1994. If yours is no longer playable, then Twitter user @Rurue0111 has a great idea for what you can do with it: turn it into a clock. He removed the electronic components from the case and added a clock motor into the interior. The disc cover was already the shape of a clock face. All he had to do is add numbers using a drill.
Pressing the power button turns on lights:
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A+Architects designed this daycare center in Lodève, France. It looks like a fun place for kids and kids at heart because stepping inside is like entering a toybox. The windows give the building the appearance of shape sorter. Inside, there are other bright colors and soft shapes that invite visitors to explore and play.
Jim Bachor is a mosaic artist in Chicago. He works against the city's pothole problem by filling in and tiling over potholes, giving them a beautiful appearance that helps protect cars. Ugly voids in city pavement become lovely images in glass and marble. Lately, he's been filling them in images of ice cream treats. You can see more in the series at Junkculture.
You can also see other mosaic works at his gallery. Bachor has a novel and fresh approach to this ancient art. He chooses unusual subjects for the medium, including children's breakfast cereals and Twinkies.
The Queen's plot didn't get very far. Before the Huntsman could even explain that he wasn't going to hurt her, Snow White had slammed her knife straight into his chest. Then she went hunting herself. She picked up skills that kept her alive when the kingdom fell apart. Now she wanders across the wasteland in improvised armor. Professional cosplay photographer David Ngo spotted her at the recent Calgary Expo.
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Abdul Rashid Bhat of the town of Budgam in northern India went to the trouble of registering his cow to take a college entrance exam. Passing the test would qualify the cow to enter the Government Degree College at Bemina. This was a great opportunity for the cow to build a prosperous career.
Alas, the foolish cow didn't even show up, let alone pass the test. The Times of India reports:
A Budgam resident, who managed to get hall ticket for his Brown Cow to write a professional entrance examination, on Sunday did not turn up with the bovine for the paper at the allocated centre here, saying he only wanted to convey a message about the "flaw" in the system.
"I only wanted to convey a message to the authorities about the flaw in the system. I never wanted to make a mockery of the system," Abdul Rashid Bhat, the owner of the now-famous cow, told PTI.
It's a shame that the cow threw away a chance that so many other cows never get.
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Dr. Bruce Banner has a lot to do. And I'm not talking about laboratory work. Like any other functional adult, he has a long to-do list of daily chores. It makes him irritable. It brings out the Hulk in him (like the rest of us). In this animated short by Fox ADHD, the Hulk must quickly and brutally get through the mundane details of life.
Bonus item:
For expectant parents, a sonogram visit is a time of joy and anxiety. It's the earliest opportunity to see a child waiting to arrive.
Tatiana Guerra, 30, will soon give birth to her son, Murilo. She's blind, so she can't see the fuzzy results of a sonogram. To promote the Huggies diaper brand in Brazil, the ad agency Mood created a 3-dimensional model of her son as he appeared in a sonogram. It then surprised Guerra with the model, giving her a wonderful glimpse of her son that she could touch and study with her fingers.
-via Visual News
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Cosplayer AlyCat looks almost exactly like Lena Headey's depiction of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. She's left aside the queen's normal garb for Princess Leia's famous slave outfit. She doesn't have a chain with which to strangle Jabba, but only because she has a more painful end in mind for him.
-via Kotaku
