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Kelly Pratt's ongoing poster series shows the ingredients of iconic sandwiches from each state of the United States. So far, she's made eleven sandwich posters, including one of the greatest sandwich ever invented: the Reuben.
At the link: apparently people in Massachusetts eat sandwiches consisting of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.
Link -via Nag on the Lake
A man in Osceola County, Florida stands accused of robbing a Lowe's outlet. Unfortunately for him, the golf cart that he picked up at a local nudist colony was not up to the task of delivering him away from the scene:
This would make a pretty good mission scenario for the next Grand Theft Auto game.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user @cdharrison
"He tried to run across Pleasant Hill Road, and a white pickup truck was blocking his way, so he walked up to that pickup truck driver and punched him in the face," Lizasuain said.
Officials said the driver was not hurt.
Deputies said Hodges then stole a golf cart from a nudist community near the Lowes.
By that time, deputies were already at the scene to make the arrest.
This would make a pretty good mission scenario for the next Grand Theft Auto game.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user @cdharrison
These cookies have fewer than 6 million flavors, but they'll serve your dietary and translation needs from Endor to Tatooine. Jill of Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons made them by dipping oreos into a candy melt, then adding eyes made out of caramels and chocolate chips.
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See the trees in the background? There are supposed to be three of them. That's a major oversight by artist Gary Soszynski. A friend of redditor bajafresk picked up this otherwise excellent find in Venice Beach.
Link -via Geekosystem | Artist's Website
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If you've ever chased a roadrunner off a cliff, then you know how important it can be to run quickly in reverse. It may seem awkward at first, but with practice, you may get as fast as these guys. Reverse running is a sport that's gaining increasing popularity, especially in the UK, where there are regular races.
Article Link | A League in the UK
Jeffrey Stephenson's PC case mod is as spare and elegant as Piet Mondriaan's Composition series. The outside surface is made of hand cut acrylic tiles set into a wooden frame. You can find construction photos at the link.
Link -via OhGizmo!
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The cat routinely disrupts the life of his human, animator Simon Tofield. Something finally gets the better of the cat -- a toad that lives in the yard.
Link -via Blame It on the Voices
Since 1959, Cthulhu has given young girls unrealistic expectations about body image and moral depravity. Sabrina Zbasnik's treatment is probably an improvement. Note: the Cthulhu Dream Dungeon is sold separately.
Link -via Bit Rebels
In the frozen Svalbard archipelago, far north of the Norwegian mainland, temperatures rarely rise above freezing. This became a problem during the influenza pandemic of 1917-1920 because the victims' bodies did not decompose, the virus inside of them did not die. So officials in the settlement of Longyearbyen passed a clever law to prevent further destruction by the disease. They banned death:
The cold earth had preserved the corpses and, unfortunately, had also kept the influenza strain alive.
There is no reason to believe that anyone was infected by the resurrected influenza, but regardless, its discovery provided a warning to the town officials. Realizing that Longyearbyen, quite isolated from the rest of the world, had no way of handling its dead — and at risk to the living — its leaders simply declared that dying was not permitted in the town.
Enforcement, of course, cannot be done via punitive action — “don’t die, or else!” is a strange ultimatum, to say the least. Rather, Longyearbyen prevents people from dying in town by a system akin to an administrative hokey-pokey. The cemetery closed in 1930, accepting no future burials.
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What's going on here? There's little information about the mod, but Mike at Everyday, No Days Off speculates:
It looks to me like there’s some type of plunger at the back of the shotgun, which is likely in contact with the firing pin. The cable then whacks that and… BOOM.
-via Everyday, No Days Off
Burton Olivier, a hardcore fan of novelist and comic book writer Neil Gaiman, wanted a special tattoo to cover his back. So he asked Gaiman to design one. The author agreed if Olivier would make a contribution to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Gaiman hired comic book artist David Mack to make the visual design, then composed the following poem:
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You're the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You're my letter to desire: And you'll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You're my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends.
Which active author would you like to design a tattoo for you?
Link | Photo: Neil Gaiman
You may already know about Leonardo da Vinci's submarine design, or his sketches for helicopters, parachutes and airplanes. But you not have seen his plan for a compact muon solenoid detector, almost identical to the one now used by CERN in its Large Hadron Collider. That, at least, is the idea behind this drawing by physicist Sergio Cittolin. View more images at the link.
Link -via io9
After five years of planning and work, Jeff Skierka completed this beautiful 12:1 scale audio cassette tape table. It's made of maple, walnut and lucite. And presumably magnetic tape. The table is reversible, so you can play both sides.
Link -via Dude Craft
Previously: Wood VHS Cassette Table
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