Here's a healthy and tasty breakfast. Just preheat your oven to 300°F. Add some thyme, salt and pepper to the overturned mushroom cap. Then gently crack open an egg and cook for 20 to 30 minutes.
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This is the neatest thing you'll see all day. Chris Allen built an RC plane that looks like Batman's plane, the Batwing. The video at the link is amazing. The model is fast and as maneuverable as the real, er, ficticious Batwing.
DVICE has a great slideshow on one of my favorite topics: weird guns! This is a hand mortar, one of the twelve featured oddities from the history of firearms:
Hailing from way back in the Musketeer days of the 1580s, these were hand-held weapons capable of delivering explosive ordinance that could have remained relevant all the way through World War I. Each measures 14" in length, with a 6 1/2" barrel capable of firing 2"-calibre grenades. For a soldier on foot, this was an immense amount of firepower to carry around, if only for one shot.
I want one. No, two.
You'd think that this whopper, at 98 feet long, would be hard to maneuver. But the drivers of this new bus in Dresden, Germany won't need any extra training:
Said to be as easily maneuverable as a commonly sized bus, the Autotram Extra Grand makes use of a computer system to aid its driver with turning. The system's primary purpose is to ensure that the rear section of the bus precisely follows the front and middle sections at all times. In addition to the sophisticated guidance system, the bus incorporates green technology in the form of a hybrid gas and electric engine that can travel five miles operating purely on battery power.
Link -via Marginal Revolution
Photo: Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrustructure Systems
Mimblex knitted squid versions of the six major characters of My Little Pony (L-R: Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle and Rarity.) My favorite feature is Applesquid's little cowboy hat.
Link -via My Little Pony Crafts
UPDATE: 8/29/12: Oops! These are knitted, not crocheted. Thanks, Miss C.
Barbara's cream puffs are so beautiful that I almost don't want to eat them. Almost. Herein lies the tragedy: to experience the fullness of the majesty of the puffs, you must destroy them.
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Every second of this video by YouTube user Brovadere is adorable. My favorite moment is at 0:15 when the girls hear the first few notes and give each other a knowing look.
-via Nag on the Lake
Sue Austin, an artist in the UK, can see the wonders of the ocean without leaving her wheelchair:
To move through oceanic depths, the wheelchair uses a propeller and fins positioned at the back of Austin’s legs that allow her to steer via an acrylic strip attached to her feet. According toSmartPlanet, the design originally proved challenging since most propeller models rely on hand movements, but Austin lacks the strength to maneuver them properly. Instead, the team worked to make her wheelchair more buoyant by modifying the heel plates into fins and tweaking the seat to cope better with underwater pressure.
At the link, you can watch a mesmerizing video of Ms. Austin moving easily through the water.
Zee Svedeesh Cheff frum zee Mooppet Shoo speeks a geebberish furm ooff Ingleesh--nut Svedeesh. Vhet du neteefe-a Svedeesh speekers theenk ooff heem? Slete's Jeremy Stehl infesteegeted. Bork Bork Bork!
I know this because it was one of the first questions I asked my Swedish wife when we were introduced. “I don’t see how it’s funny,” she responded in a tone that I took at the time to be an endearingly sarcastic deadpan, but would soon learn was actually an endearingly sincere deadpan.
The Swedish Chef does not speak any known language, and the fact that his nonsense words are so widely interpreted as Swedish-sounding is bewildering and annoying to Swedes.
“What has always struck me is that the Chef is probably based on a Norwegiansing-songish accent rather than a Swedish one,” Maaret Koskinen, a film studies professor at Stockholm University, wrote in an email when I asked her about the Swedish Chef’s cultural influence in Sweden.
Link | Photo: Disney
Lydia Ko of New Zealand is only 15, but she's already won a LPGA golf tournament. And it's not even her first! She also won a competition at the age of 14, becoming the youngest ever champion in that sport's history.
Currently the world's top-ranked female amateur golfer, Ko, 15, also became the tour's fifth-ever amateur champion -- its first since 1969.
The glove she wore during her final round will become part of the World Golf Hall of Fame's collection.
"I was most impressed with just her demeanor," fellow player Stacey Lewis told reporters in quotes carried by LPGA.com. Lewis is ranked second in the Women's World Golf Rankings.
"I mean you would have never known that it was the final round of an LPGA event. She played like she had been there before."
Link -via The Mary Sue | Image: CNN
Chesty XIII* is an enlisted bulldog in the United States Marine Corps and that force's official mascot. His recent promotion from corporal to sergeant was almost aborted after Chesty angrily confronted a golden retriever owned by the Secretary of Defense. It was a major breach of protocol that, according to some Marines, indicated that Chesty wasn't ready to become a sergeant:
Other senior Marines worried about the message promoting Chesty might send. In military chain of command, Bravo is second only to Bo Obama, the president's hypoallergenic Portuguese water dog. The Constitution puts the military under civilian control, and some senior officers thought promoting Chesty might appear insubordinate.
"The standards in the barracks had lowered," said one senior Marine officer. "The dog didn't really deserve it."
Col. Montanus, who had the dog's fate in his hands, acknowledges that Chesty was wrong to shove his short snout in Bravo's face. "There absolutely was a protocol break," he said. "We don't bark at guests, whether they are human or the canine variety."
Link -via Joe Carter | Photo: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/Department of Defense
*Named after Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in history.
Aww, and I'm already set for a professional wardrobe! If only I had waited until Lindsay Aspen had marketed her Metapod dress. Then I'd be the belle of the Neatorama office.
Just wait until Luke Joker and Leia Quinn learn that they're brother and sister.
On second thought, I don't think that the Joker will mind.
Jen of Epbot attended the most recent Star Wars Celebration convention. She compiled the best mashup costumes there, including Captain America the Ewok, Boba Lantern and Ackbar the Ghostbuster. You can view them at the link.
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Your diet can wait. These s'mores cannot. Make the right decision and follow Desiree's recipe at the link.
Safety warning: it may be hard to fit the entire s'more in your mouth at once. But as the kids say, YOLO.
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