The food at this restaurant won't kill you, but the ambiance will remind you of your own mortality. Allegedly, this is a picture of a huge coffin in Truskavets, Ukraine. Local undertakers built it to serve as a death-themed restaurant:

Single candles light the intimate tables, where patrons can order morbid dishes with ominous, vague names such as “Let's meet in Paradise”, or more the more distinctly death oriented “Forty Day Salad”, which eludes to local mourning ritual of repeating memorial services 40 days after a soul's sad departure.

Link -via io9 | Photo: kava.lviv.ua

One way to defend your personal space is to carry a halberd while wearing a Strawberry Shortcake t-shirt but no pants. Not everyone, oddly enough, is comfortable with this approach. For them, Zac Ong may have a solution. His project, entitled Repel, features a rotating shoulder-mounted laser. When it detects that people have entered his personal space, it alerts him with LEDs and buttons that blink and spin with increasing speed as the intruder approaches.

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This 1931 Ford Model A has been heavily modified to get it through the snowy winters of the Great Lakes region. You can swap the front wheels for skis, a process the owner describes as "like changing a tire." It's for sale on eBay.

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Stefan Kerkhofs's Dinner in the Sky experience lets you eat a gourmet meal served on a platform held aloft by a crane:

Kerkhofs, who used to set up bungee-jumping and amusement part installations, partnered with marketing executive David Ghelys to develop Dinner in the Sky six years ago. The two now travel the world putting on dramatic dining shows.

Kerkhofs has designed and built 40 platforms and charges up to 250 euros ($310) a head for the experience, with Las Vegas, Barcelona, Paris, Monaco and Tokyo all popular destinations.

While the views from up above are spectacular, the aim is to ensure that the food is too, with some of the world's top chefs preparing the meals. One recent menu included foie gras, lobster with lemongrass and crispy veal sweetbreads followed by a chocolate, caramel and coconut concoction.

The above screenshot is from one such event held in front of the Royal Palace of Brussels.

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Too many cooks spoil the meth. So stay out of the kitchen until Walter is done. This cross stitch by Steotch adds a homey atmosphere to the lab.

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Would you like to encourage wild, solitary bees to live near your home? You can build a bee hotel that provides the amenities that bees on the go are looking for. Bundle together shoots of bamboo or just drill deep, wide holes into blocks of wood. Hang the assembly in a place that gets plenty of sunlight, but is sheltered from the rain.

Link | Photo: Friends of the Earth

Here's some food for thought. DeviantART member CandyCasters made these cupcakes with brain cupcake toppers, cherry vanilla buttercream and maraschino cherries.

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To mark the passing of Russian singer and viral video star Eduard Khil, heavy metal cover specialist Erock made this snappy version of "I'm So Happy That I'm Finally Home." One redditor refers to him as "smiliest person on youtube," which is appropriate, since Khil grinned throughout the original performance.

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General Lee said, "Texans always move them." And nothing encourages movement quite like 00 buckshot. Dolan Geiman made this display out of used shotgun shells nailed to wood. It's a custom job and Geiman will make one for any state.

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Handing a beer to a friend -- it's a simple bonding act between men. But for these guys, it's also an opportunity to perform remarkable acrobatic feats.

Guys, if there's a blooper reel, don't tell me. I fear that the lives of many beers were brutally cut short during the production of this video.

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Have you ever been so in love that you felt like your warp core was going to breach? Then you need this custom Starfleet insignia ring by Etsy seller Valerie. It's made of sterling silver and gold and contains a small white sapphire. Engage.

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It's true. And thanks to YouTube user GameFreak2413, you can hear all of them in order for 2 minutes and 46 seconds.

At some point, there's going to be a season 10 of the series. Just imagine that supercut video.

I found this video in a post at Nerd Bastards. It rounds up 25 excellent supercuts, including some for Star Wars, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. You can watch them at the link.

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I'm tired of making the bed. Or would be, I suppose, if I did that on a regular basis. This bed by Spanish furniture maker OHEA eliminates any possible excuses. The first step, which is the hardest, is to get out of bed. Should you be so foolish as to do so, the bed will wait three seconds to verify that it is unoccupied. Then hooks grab the sheets and straighten them, placing them under the pillows which the bed lifts out of the way.

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Robots are increasingly active in human medical care, from stabbing us with knives, to rescuing us from scene of the stabbing, to handling triage, drawing blood and providing nursing care at the hospital

But before they turn us into consumable biomass, the robots will lovingly say goodbye to us. The Last Moment Robot, designed by Dan Chen, is a chaplain that gently strokes and says soothing words to a human on his deathbed. Because it cares.

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Obviously the German soldiers might notice a tree where there had not been one before. That's why the British Empire's Royal Engineers built fake trees to resemble specific trees in no man's land. During the night, they'd cut down the original and replace it with the fake:

To develop the O.P. Tree, Royal Engineers representatives selected, measured, and photographed the original tree, in situ, extensively. The ideal tree was dead; often it was bomb blasted. The photographs and sketches were brought back to the workshop, where artists constructed an artificial tree of hollow steel cylinders, but containing an internal scaffolding for reinforcement, to allow a sniper or observer to ascend within the structure. Then, under the cover of night, the team cut down the authentic tree and dug a hole in the place of its roots, in which they placed the O.P. Tree. When the sun rose over the field, what looked like a tree was a tree no longer; rather, it was an exquisitely crafted hunting blind, maximizing personal concealment and observational capacity simultaneously.

Link -via io9 | Photo: Australian War Memorial