Will you take all of the risks that come with playing the Game of Bones? If so, then pay the kibble price. You may eventually lay upon the Iron Couch.
-via Geekosystem
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One two bunny's coming for you.
Three, four better lock his door.
Five, six grab some carrot sticks.
Seven, Eight better stay up late.
Nine, Ten never hop again.
Michelle Coffee made this plush that will hopefully inspire the creation of a children's version of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Link -via Super Punch
That's no moon. It's a clock built by Instructables member YOUgNeek. He used a stencil to mark out the Death Star pattern. Then he pressed white LEGO pieces into the clay to provide backing for the interchangeable minfigs. So although it's currently a quarter till Boba Fett, he can swap the minifigs to reflect different time measurement systems.
Link -via Geek Crafts
Exclamation points are useful for communicating emphasis! But where did this punctuation mark come from?!
The current running theory is that it comes from Latin. In Latin, the exclamation of joy was io, where the i was written above the o. And, since all their letters were written as capitals, an I with an o below it looks a lot like an exclamation point.
But it wasn’t until 1970 that the exclamation point had its own key on the keyboard. Before that, you had to type a period, and then use the backspace to go back and stick an apostrophe above it. When people dictated things to secretaries they would say “bang” to mark the exclamation point. Hence the interobang (?!) – a combination of a question (?) and an exclamation point (!).
Link -via VA Viper | Image: Gregory Morris
The man who wrote Brave New World also wrote a children's book? Yes! I had no idea. Maria Popova provides a synopsis:
The Crows of Pearblossom tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, whose eggs never hatch because the Rattlesnake living at the base of their tree keeps eating them. After the 297th eaten egg, the hopeful parents set out to kill the snake and enlist the help of their friend, Mr. Owl, who bakes mud into two stone eggs and paints them to resemble the Crows’ eggs. Upon eating them, the Rattlesnake is in so much pain that he beings to thrash about, tying himself in knots around the branches. Mrs. Crow goes merrily on to hatch “four families of 17 children each,” using the snake “as a clothesline on which to hang the little crows’ diapers.”
Gertrude Stein, Salman Rushdie and other surprising people also wrote children's books. Read about them at the link.
Link | Image: We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie
The China Environmental Protection Foundation hired the DDB China Group to encourage people to walk rather drive in order to reduce pollution. So DDB placed an enormous canvas across a street intersection. Pedestrians stepped into a mat filled with washable green paint. As they crossed the street, their footprints painted leaves on the tree.
Link | DDB China Group
For it is written:
And the Lord activated the Wi-Fi signal of the ass, and she tweeted unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
And so, 3,500 years later, the Kfar Kedem park in northern Israel maintains that tradition by offering visitors a look back into the past while connecting them to the modern world:
A device slung around the donkey's neck like a feedbag is actually a wi-fi hotspot. [...]
Visitor Peter Scherr accessed the Internet while touring the Galilee hills to do some donkey fact-finding with his family.
"It has been used as a working animal for 5000 years," said the New York native, reading from a Wikipedia page on his iPad. "There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world . That's a lot of donkeys!" [....]
"I don't miss any news," Scherr said. "I send pictures back to my family while I'm having fun on the donkeys."
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo: AP
Turn the crank of renegadecow's automaton. My Little Pony's Twilight Sparkle reads and turns the page while Spike puts books away:
Twilight Sparkle loves to read. And she's just so cute when she's at it! A passion for literature is something I share with this adorkable pony and so the idea for an automaton of her came to me rather easily.
Like Twilight says, "Reading is for everypony..."
It was 1931--the skyscraper era. At a ball in New York City, architects dressed as buildings they had designed:
L-R: A. Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria), Ely Jacques Kahn (Squibb Building), William Van Alen (Chrysler Building), Ralph Walker (1 Wall Street), D.E.Ward (Metropolitan Tower), Joseph H. Freelander (Museum of New York).
Link | Photo: Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect by Jewel Stern and John A. Stewart
David Crawford of Eagleville, Missouri banked a basketball off a gym wall and landed it in a basket 42 feet away. Can you beat him?
-via The Presurfer
The American Kid asks, "Do you sushi what they did there?" I do, I do!
Link -via That's Nerdalicious!
Scientists used electrodes to pump awesome 90s music into a squid. Then they watched it change color:
During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (loligo pealei), we tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid's chromatophores. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve.
-via Colossal, which is celebrating its second blogiversary
Comedian Rachel Bloom sang a Klingon language version of "Seasons of Love" from the musical Rent. Nice, eh? Well, YouTube commenter Jordan Wright points out the obvious problem:
The Klingon year is 384.2 days long or 553248 minutes, not the 525600 as the original lyrics would have you believe.
-via The Mary Sue
Hand over the keys to that picnic table. You're in no condition to drive.
An Ontario man is facing charges after he and his buddies constructed a motorized picnic table and drove it around town.
Police said they attached a lawnmower motor and four customized wheels to the picnic table and took it for a spin on Sunday evening. [...]
When officers found the table parked on a sidewalk, they charged a 46-year-old South Huron, Ont., man with having an open container of liquor in a public place.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated): One Stop Performance
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