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I'm now kicking myself for not thinking of it first:
The 25-year-old former wedding planner from Grand Rapids, Mich., says she wanted a unique ceremony. So the couple donned the $90,000 contraptions on their backs, along with a wetsuit for the groom and white board shorts and a rash-guard shirt for the bride.
The jetpacks from Jetlev Southwest helped the couple hover a few feet above the water, to the cheers of their wedding guests.
You can watch a video at the link.
ArgtheAvatar carved beautiful pipes with the visages of Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. He used Mediterranean briar, a hardwood commonly used in pipe carving.
Let's give him a double brohoof. He's more than earned it.
Global Link manufactures an intimidating security system. Laser beams that sweep across a room. Lights flash. An alarm beeps. And it's all fake.
The premise is that the visible and audible presence of the system deters break-ins. Some thieves decide to go elsewhere rather risk a target that is appears heavily guarded. The system thus reduces, but not eliminates, the possibility of a break-in.
-via DVICE
Give a monster a box of cookies, and he'll eat cookies for two minutes. Teach a monster to make cookies, and he'll eat cookies every day for the rest of his life.
Big Bird's Busy Book, published in 1975, included the recipe for Cookie Monster's signature dish. You can read a transcription at the link.
Link -via That's Nerdalicious!
Colin Rich's majestic time lapse video shows lights filling the darkness as the sun sets over Los Angeles. The background music is taken from an M83 album. An old woman says in French:
It is late. I am looking for my other home, taking an unfamiliar path: a small trail near the factories and the city, cutting through the forest. I can barely see nature when suddenly, night falls. I am engulfed by a world of silence, yet I am not afraid. I fall asleep for a few minutes at the most, and when I wake up, the sun is there and the forest is shining with a bright light.I recognize this forest. It is not an ordinary forest, it is a forest of memories. My memories. The white and noisy river, my adolescence. The tall trees, the men I have loved. The birds in flight, and in the distance, my lost father.
My memories aren't memories anymore. They are there, with me, dancing and embracing, singing and smiling at me.
I look at my hands. I caress my face, and I am 20 years old. And I love like I have never loved before.
-via American Digest
Get it? It's a pie that looks like the Marvel comics anti-hero Deadpool. So:Deadpie. Anna made this delicious but unstable pie. You can find her recipe at the link.
Link -via That's Nerdalicious!
Like the Captain says, "If someone tries to kill you, you try and kill 'em right back." A man in Nepal understood this rule and took revenge on a snake that bit him:
Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday, caught it and bit it until it died.
"I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," the 55-year-old Miya [...]
Link -via Life's Little Mysteries | Photo: The Bode
Have you been injured by a Jedi? Do you have an unresolved workers' comp claim? The law offices of Lando Calrissian are here for you. He'll bring you justice and the settlement that you deserve. Call today.
-via Nerd Bastards
Adam Savage of Mythbusters prizes efficiency. Over his years as a special effects artist, he built and rebuilt his toolboxes until they made every tool he needed immediately accessible:
I wanted to make an impression at my new job, so I spent an entire weekend remaking the bags out of aluminum. My supervisor suggested scissor lifts to keep them even with me when I was seated. He might have been joking, but I added them.
The finished boxes housed everything I needed, but I repeatedly rebuilt the insides until finally no tool had to be moved out of the way to get to another. That’s first-order retrievability.
If you're going to fail a sobriety test, you might as well do so with panache, as one man in Christchurch, New Zealand did:
After Thompson recorded a breath-alcohol reading of 1137mcg/L at the police station, a police officer was completing paperwork when he heard the sound of running water, according to the summary of facts.
He turned to see Thompson, still seated, urinating into a box of breath screening tubes. Thompson continued urinating despite repeated demands to stop.
Thompson lost his license for nine months and was fined for damage to the breathalyzer equipment.
Link -via Jalopnik | Photo: Tiger Girl
A jail in western France allowed prisoners to maintain a garden to grow their own food. Alas, the prisoners decided to diversify their crops:
The plants, which had reached a height of around 80cm (two and a half feet) before being spotted at the weekend, were found in vegetable patches located in the exercise courtyard of the Saint-Martin-de-Re prison in the west of France, Christophe Beaulieu, a regional official of the prison officers' union, told AFP.
"When you don't know what you are looking for it is easy to confuse them with other plants," Beaulieu said.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo: "thöR
Do you feel more confident and powerful after watching a superhero movie? Researchers led by Ariana Young of the University of Buffalo studied this emotional effect. They asked 98 young men how they felt about Batman and Spider-Man and showed them pictures of the heroes, depicted with variously muscular or normal physiques.
Researchers then asked the young men to rate their own physiques and demonstrate their strength:
Those who felt no emotional connection the hero in question gave lower ratings to their own bodies after seeing the image of a muscular Batman or Spider-Man. They apparently compared their own bodies to those of the fictional character and judged themselves as lacking.
This effect vanished when the participant felt an emotional link with the superhero. Rather than seeing themselves as less than their brawny hero, they apparently adopted his manly aura.
What’s more, those who identified with a particular superhero, and saw the muscular version of the character, exhibited greater strength on the hand-grip test than their fellow devotees who either (a) viewed the non-muscular image, or (b) viewed the muscular image of the alternate hero. Seeing the figure they identify with as strapping inspired them to their own feat of strength.
In the researchers’ words, this suggests “one possible explanation for the overwhelming popularity of superheroes in our society is that, for some men, they may fulfill an important psychological function: making them feel better about their bodies."
Link -via Marginal Revolution | Image: DC Comics
After you've taken an arrow in the knee, your adventuring days may be over. But you can still pick up a law enforcement gig. Watch the cops of Tamriel deal with drunks, vagrants and thieves in this video by Bryan Basham.
-via Kotaku
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