In its smaller versions, the Smith & Wesson 500 revolver comes with a 4 inch barrel. But some models come with 14 inch barrels, muzzle brakes, rails for mounting scopes, and bipods.

What I find so tickling is that some designs come with sling swivels. Does this .500 S&W caliber hand cannon go in a holster? No. Hook up a sling and hang it over your shoulder.

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It looks like an RC helicopter landed upside down on your ceiling, but it's actually Raffaele Iannello's new ceiling fan. It's a 1:6 scale model of the Hughes/MD 500 mounted on what appears to be a helipad. Do the narrow blades cool well? Yes, they are extremely cool.

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The Taxi agency's ad for the Vancouver Aquarium reminds us that male seahorses gestate their young. A pregnancy test embedded in the bottom of urinals returns a (presumably false) positive result whenever a man uses it.

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Let's shave old school. No, no, not the Bowie knife. That's going a bit too far. But redditor awwbeans does use a safety razor, solid shaving soap and a lather brush. He needed a way to organize his gear, so he asked a friend to weld together spider gears and worm gears from his Toyota 4Runner.

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If you do a lot of electronic work, it may be handy to keep a color-coded resistor chart nearby. Becky Stern of Adafruit has you covered with this cross stitch sampler. You can find her pattern at the link.

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Carl Jacobsen's famous mermaid sculpture in Copenhagen harbor isn't the only seaside mermaid statue. It has inspired many similar sculptures around the world, including this one in the estuary of Britain's Dart River. You can view several others at the link. Content warning: artistic nudity.

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Which came first, the footstool or the egg? The designers at thecityfarmgirl answer unhesitatingly, "The egg." These eggs, given time and proper care, grow into 12-inch or 17-inch footstools. They're made of felt and are available in a variety of colors.

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Gravity is for losers and humans. Piggy that cat ignores it as she casually walks down the side of a refrigerator.

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Burglary? No, just really aggressive marketing. Police in Westlake, Ohio arrested her anyway:

Police said the woman dubbed a real-life "cleaning fairy" broke into a house last week and a left a bill for the housework she did. According to police, the woman entered the Dover Center Road residence while homeowner Mallory Bush slept, did some light cleaning and left a bill for $75 on a napkin before leaving.

When Bush awoke, she found the note and several items out of place.

"Stuff was moved around and it was cleaner. On a napkin note that said, came here to clean today, and had a name and address and a bill for $75, so I figured my parents hired a cleaning person," Bush said.

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Why? Artist Debra Baxter explains, "I am going to realign your chakras [expletive deleted -ed.]." Inspired by the crystals in Superman's Fortress of Solitude, she makes jewelry using enormous crystals.

Link -via Geekosystem | Artist's Website

P.S. Would you like to carry around a set of brass knuckles that will make you look comparatively sane? Try the NeatoShop's Fisticup.

Tumblr blogger Totalitarian Vegetables got a chance to be photographed with The Wheaton. Naturally, she went as Hipster Ariel, wearing a shirt marked "Helvetica" in comic sans. The Wheaton, as you can read at the link, was pleased.

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It may surprise you, but most Neatorama blogging is done while the authors are stone cold sober. Would our content selection and writing improve if we took a few shots of whiskey first? That would be in keeping with Earnest Hemingway's advice to "write drunk; edit sober." Well, the first part at least. Writer Eric Kuentz decided to try Hemingway's regimen. Here's his morning after report:

My head is still throbbing.

One thing I learned, besides being out of practice drinking (no worries, not a habit I’m looking to pick up), alcohol definitely lowered my inhibitions. While this can be a dangerous occurrence at the bar, facing the blank page wasn’t nearly as scary as usual. While the ideas didn’t flow as smoothly as I may have liked, and clearly I lose the ability to punctuate and spell, there was definitely a stream-of-consciousness kind of feeling as I was writing. As things popped into my head, as characters spoke out of the fog of intoxication, it all spewed out onto the page.

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This man spent 28 years driving a truck, thus exposing the left side of his face to the elements more often than the right. On Facebook, writer Joe Carter offers this prudent advice:

Protect your skin by doing what I do: Stay inside and let the only light that shines on your face be the glow of your computer screen.

If you have an Internet connection, there's really no need to go outside.

Article Link | Joe Carter's Twitter Feed

Photo: Jennifer R.S. Gordon, M.D., and Joaquin C. Brieva, M.D./New England Journal of Medicine

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Mikey Mason speaks the truth. There are some things that you should never tolerate in a relationship, including cheating and not liking Firefly.

What, you would stay with a girl who can't appreciate your Jayne Cobb hat? Show some self respect, man. Walk away and find someone better.

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Previously by Mikey Mason: That One Dungeons & Dragons Session You'll Never Forget

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It took $250 million to make The Dark Knight Rises. If only Christopher Nolan had used hotdogs instead of human actors, he could have shaved at least 40 million off that figure.

-via Comics Alliance