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Solar Powered Ice Cream Cart



The Dutch design firm Springtime invented this ice cream cart. The solar cells on the roof collect enough energy to keep the ice cream chilled:

The ice cream carts were designed to have a solar panel attached to the roof, which charges the batteries in order to keep the ice nice and cold on a hot summer day. The design team hope that the innovative vending cart will result in a energy-neutral solution for ice cream vendors all around the world.


Link -via Gizmodo | Design Firm's Website

The McDonald's Three-Piece Suit



In 1976, this suit was the pinnacle of managerial style. Now it's available for the modern man who wants a classy look from that era. It's for sale on eBay. If you're not a 43 long, find a way to make it fit.

Link -via Boing Boing

Panda Pita Pepperoni Pizza



This dish from Jill of Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons looks both tasty and cute. To make your own, you'll need pita bread, shredded mozzarella, sliced pepperoni, marina sauce and a slice of provolone.

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The Real Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin



Christopher Robin was a real little boy and Winnie the Pooh was a real stuffed bear. The UK's National Portrait Gallery has many pictures of him as a young boy. Some of them include his father, A.A. Milne, the author of the Winnie the Pooh stories.

Link -via Retronaut

Plush Spocktopus



My first thought was that Spocktopus should have an additional stripe or half-stripe on each sleeve, but Karen is probably referring to a younger Spock, before the original series began. No doubt her Trekkie friend Regena, the recipient of this gift, will appreciate her attention to detail.

Link -via Geek Crafts

Previously: Spock Octopus Tattoo

Branding the Presidents



Meg Jannott's latest project is to create branded graphic designs for each of the 44 Presidents of the United States. Presumably that means that she's going to give 2 designs to Cleveland. So far, she's up to Benjamin Harrison.

Here's Ulysses S. Grant. He earned the sobriquet "the Butcher" while in the Army for his willingness to accept huge casualties in order to destroy Confederate armies.

Link -via Dude Craft

Hand Feeding a Dragonfly


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Noelia found a cute little dragonfly. It was injured and unable to hunt for itself, so she fed it live ants using a pair of tweezers.

-via Nerdcore

Silo House



An anonymous submitter to Recyclart needed to expand her log cabin home. S/he decided that an old grain silo would be just the right structure to attach to the house:

Radiant floor heating. stamped and stained concrete floor, spray foam insulation, 7 windows and soon plaster walls along with a 6?x6? living wall. After finding a silo on a near by farm we moved it over to our house, cut out one wall and attached it to the side of our house for a much needed dining room.


You can see a large interior photo at the link.

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Why Do We Wear Pants? Because of Horses



Why do we wear pants? Even if you're currently dressed "blogger style", you've no doubt worn pants in the past. How did his fashion develop? Peter Turchin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, says that the domestication of horses led to pants:

The reasons why pants are advantageous when mounted atop a horse should be obvious, nonetheless, many cultures struggled to adapt, even when their very existences were threatened by superior, trouser-clad horseback riders.

Turchin details how the Romans eventually adopted braccae (known to you now as breeches) and documents the troubles a 3rd-century BC Chinese statesman, King Wuling, had getting his warriors to switch to pants from the traditional robes. "It is not that I have any doubt concerning the dress of the Hu," Wuling told an advisor. "I am afraid that everybody will laugh at me." Eventually, a different state, the Qin, conquered and unified China. They just so happened to be closest to the mounted barbarians and thus were early to the whole cavalry-and-pants thing.

Turchin speculates that because mounted warriors were generally men of relatively high status, the culture of pants could spread easily throughout male society.


Link -via Robb Allen | Photo: jdj 150

My Little Pony Rifle



We've got MLP shotguns and MLP handguns, so let's round out the gunsafe with some MLP rifles. I don't know who made this awesome Rainbow Dash Lee-Enfield rifle, but s/he deserves high praise for creativity and rifle selection.

(Please, someone make a Fluttershy Mosin-Nagant. If you make it, I guarantee you that I will post it here.)

You can find other MLP guns at the link, where gunbrony (gun enthusiast + brony = gunbrony) Erin Palette has rounded up photos of them.

Link -via Say Uncle

P.S. Ms. Palette also owns a cute custom MLP holster.

"Godverdikke! Ken a kapmes in me kop!"



Long, long ago--almost before humans had devised writing--there was a tradition among the people of Usenet of translating the phrase "My God, there's an axe in my head!" into different languages. The title of this post is just that in the Ostend dialect of Flemish.

At the link, you can find one of the oldest and most comprehensive archives of this sacred tradition, featuring hundreds of different translations of this phrase. Preserve it and pass it on to your children, so that the ways of the ancients are not lost to the ravages of time.

Link -via Brian J. Noggle | Photo: Naval History & Heritage Command

The Brony Anthem


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At VidCon 2012, Hank Green played his new song about bronies--adult male fans of the cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It's a hilarious expression of the competing masculinities present in that body of fandom.

A point of clarification: I'm not a brony. I'm just ponycurious.

-via The Mary Sue | Hank Green's Website

Man's Last Wish Is to Leave a Waitress a Huge Tip


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While he lived, Aaron Collins was a generous person, especially to wait staff. He continued to tip generously, even after he passed away. His family writes:

Aaron passed away July 7, 2012 just 3 weeks after his 30th birthday. He left us a will full of his personality. He asked that any debt he owed his parents be repaid should he have money in the bank at his death, but also had the following request:

“Third, leave an awesome tip (and I don’t mean 25%. I mean $500 on a f***ing pizza) for a waiter or waitress.”


In this video, his family does just that. Watch the waitress's reaction.

Link -via Wizbang

A Tumblr Blog Devoted Entirely to Gruesome Deaths in Choose Your Own Adventure Novels



Your decision to ditch your friends on the middle school field trip to the Pearl Brewery has ended badly. How badly? You can read the many ways in which you have failed at You Chose Wrong, a blog filled with terrible endings in Choose Your Own Adventure novels.

Link -via io9

Coffee Ad from 1652



This new "coffee" substance sold by that Sicilian fellow, Pasqua Rosée, sounds like just the right drink for me! It tastes good and it's a veritable miracle drug according to this handbill owned by the British Museum:

It supresseth Fumes exceedingly, and therefore good against the Head-ach, and will very much stop any Defluxion of Rheumas, that distil from the Head upon the Stomach, and so prevent and help Consumptions and the Cough of the Lungs.

It is excellent to prevent and cure the Dropsy, Gout, and Scurvy.

It is known by experience to be better then any other Drying Drink for People in years, or Children that have any running humors upon them, as the Kings Evil. &c.

It is very good to prevent Mis-carryings in Child-bearing Women.

It is a most excellent Remedy against the Spleen, Hypocondriack Winds, or the like.

It will prevent Drowsiness, and make one fit for Busines, if one have occasion to Watch, and therefore you are not to drink of it after Supper, unless you intend to be watchful, for it will hinder sleep for 3 or 4 hours.


I like my coffee like I like my historical documents: strong and acid-free.

Link -via Boing Boing

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