Yamaha is popularly known for producing two types of consumer goods: motorcycles and musical instruments. In an experiment called AH A MAY (Yamaha spelled backwards), the company switched design teams from its motorcycle and musical instrument divisions. Now the musical instrument designers were tasked with coming up with a motorcycle and the motorcycle engineers had to build a new type of musical instrument.

One of the musical instruments that resulted from this switch is the Raijin, which means "God of Thunder." It's a drum kit that wraps completely around the drummer's body. Rain Noe of Core77 points out that it looks like something you'd expect to use in zero gravity.

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Here's a video showing a drummer releasing thunder from the God of Thunder.

Your human has placed you in the bathtub. Now water flows over your body, sadly removing all of the good scents that you have worked to hard to accumulate. It is a sad time. But it is also a contempative time. Let the water pulse over your body. Let your mind relax and reach new, previously unconsidered possibilities.

These are shower thoughts. The subreddit Dog Shower Thoughts is a place for your dog to submit his own. Jamie Jones of BuzzFeed illustrated 15 moments of profound canine wisdom.

Cassandra is a cartoonist in Canada. She has long hair and sometimes draws about it. Flowing long locks can be beautiful. But, in reality, there's a price to pay for them. In the past, Cassandra has shown us the differences between the expectations and reality of long hair and painful truths about having it.

Now she shows us 9 more problems that people with short hair probably never think about.

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Actress Lucille Ball, who was most famous for her 1950s show I Love Lucy, grew up in the town Celoron, which is in western New York. In 2009, officials erected a bronze statue to honor her. It shows a scene from an episode of her signature show.

The people of Celoron love Lucy. But they hate the statue. It's so ugly that they want it torn down. The New York Daily News reports:

"It looks like a monster," a Celoron man championing the cause told the Daily News. “It not only does not look like Lucy, it doesn’t look human. And at nighttime it’s even scarier."

He has a point. But look into the hungry eyes of that statue. Do you really think that it's safe to try to pull it down?

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This weekend, professional cosplay photographer David Ngo attended WonderCon, a fan convention in Anaheim, California. He took shots of great costumes worn by visitors, including this one that shows Adventure Time's Princess Bubblegum as Princess Leia and Marceline as Han Solo. At the end of every day, he uploads his best photos onto his website. You can view more top-notch cosplay from WonderCon here.

We've previously featured a Scotch Cadbury Creme Egg before, but it's clear that Perry Santanachote of Thrillist has improved upon the concept. She made this beautiful-looking chocolate wonder by first freezing a dozen Cadbury Creme Eggs. Then she coated them with chocolate cake mix powder, followed by egg whites, then cocoa powder, and finally--this is the brilliant part--Cocoa Krispies cereal.

Santanachote deep fried each egg for about a minute or two. Pictured above are the gorgeous results.

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Tobias Fränzel, a product and furniture designer in Berlin, calls it the Ping Pong Door. It's a functional interior door. An inside panel flips down to become a little ping pong table. Attach the net, grab some paddles and a ball, and you're ready to play!

This could be a great addition to a playful office environment.

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And who wouldn't? It offers bachelors degrees and graduate degrees in awesomeness and butt-kicking. 

University Jackie Chan isn't real, but this photo (minus the Jackie Chan meme) is. Sichuan Normal University, a teachers' college in China, has a bus station on campus with this sign. It's not named after the famed actor from Hong Kong. This name is probably the result of a computer-generated translation. You can read more about it at Kotaku.

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It's an oddly-shaped towering structure that looks like the product of a children's book illustrator, not an architect. That's why local residents call it the Dr. Seuss House. They explain that it was built shortly after a forest fire stripped the area of trees. That deforestation gave the owner a wonderful view of the surrounding countryside.

But the trees grew back. So the owner built another storey onto the house. The trees grew higher, so he built another one.

The eventual result was this elaborate tower stretching into the sky. You can see more photos and a video of this wonderful house at Colossal.

Mike McCormick is a man of both art and science. He's a medical student at Glasgow University. He's learning anatomy and physiology in detail. He's also teaching the public about these topics at the same time. Candy Anatomy is his ongoing project to diagram the workings of the human body using candy. For example, in the above collage, McCormick uses cookies and what appear to be taffy strips to show the flow of waste through the large intestine.

It's "eye candy." Get it?

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The islands are smiling at you!

The left eye is named Mamutik. The right eye is named Sulug. The big grin is named Manukan. Together, these three islands in Malaysia are sometimes called the Smiley Islands. They're part of a national park and are a popular location for scuba diving.

When on Earth rounded up photos and information about 12 islands that are shaped like recognizable objects, such as a crocodile, a seahorse, a boomerang, and a slice of pizza. I want to visit the pizza island in the Azores.

Disney's 2006 animated movie Cars was a huge hit, so it's no surprise that the company has turned it into a franchise that includes 2 sequels and 2 spin-off movies featuring not Cars, but Planes.

What other vehicles should Disney's Pixar unit tackle next? Pedal boats? Zambonis? Street sweeper trucks? Those might work. But since Disney now owns Star Wars, it might as well produce a movie showing living X-wing fighters.

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Big Bee Studio produced this parody of Cars showing Rebel Alliance X-wing fighters cracking jokes, singing songs, and, most importantly, destroying the Death Star. Opposing them is a TIE fighter with the voice of Darth Vader.

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Get a chocolate latte and you've crossed all three items off the list at once. Add some creme de menthe to that latte and you've added the power to forget. It'll work! He's already smiling.

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The above fish tank is not unique. It is apparently a common craft. Recyclart rounded up photos of several old pianos turned into aquariums. Some of them, such as the one in the video below, remain playable as electric pianos. You can read about one man's experience building one here, which includes this inevitable story:

The kids in the neighborhood would come visit me to see the work in progress. The typical response was, "Cool, but why?"

Some people will never understand.

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Would you watch a live action verson of Arthur? There has been a live action Tick, but it used human actors. What would it be like if 90s cartoon characters were depicted more literally? Loryn Brantz of BuzzFeed, who previously showed us Disney princesses with realistic hair and where the cast of Arthur is now, shows us real life versions of these classic cartoon characters.

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