I don't care for modern architecture. I prefer something classical -- say, third millennium B.C. Those were the days of style and this home in Maricopa, Arizona is built with them in mind. The 3,200-square foot 3-bedroom home has a surprisingly light and airy interior, as you can see in the gallery at the link.

Link -via Offbeat Home | Photo: Glenn Marsh

Frakking beds -- how do they work? Redditor mememetatata's design is simple but brilliant. It's just two wooden frames with opposing magnets inside. When assembled, the bed hovers a few inches off the ground.

It looks like the biggest problem that mememetatatta faced was that two of the magnets were shipped together. Each one had several hundred pounds of force, so he spent considerable effort separating them -- and photographing that part of the project.

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Put on your lederhosen and jump into the arena. It's time for finger wrestling! This traditional Alpine sport puts two men on opposite sides of a table. Each holds on to a strap with a single finger -- the usually the middle -- and tries to haul the other onto the table:

Competitors subject themselves to an intense regime of finger training in the build up to a tournament, with some preferring to squeeze tennis balls or holding their own body weight with a single finger, some insist that a series of one-finger press ups is the best method of strengthening.

Link -via Oddity Central

Bento maestro Anna the Red has created another masterpiece. This time, she transmorgified Calvin and his tiger into food. Calvin's face is made from ham and Hobbes's stripes from seaweed.

Link -via That's Nerdalicious!

Criminals can run, but they can't hide forever. Like Johnny Cash sang, "what's done in the dark will be brought to the light." Eventually, the poop of rogue poopers catches up with them.

For some dog owners, scooping up poop is just too much work. This can be a serious problem at apartment complexes. That's why some property managers in Knoxville, Tennessee are resorting to DNA testing to enforce poop scooping rules:

Apartment managers start by sending in a DNA sample from every dog in the complex, usually on a swab that has been swiped in the dog's mouth. The DNA is recorded on a PooPrints registry.

Then, when an errant stool is discovered, a sample is sent in and matched with the DNA in the database. The renegade pooch and owner are identified.

Link -via Say Uncle | Photo: shouldbecleaning

"They're made out of meat."

Well, plastic, actually. The design studio Object Design League made balloons that, when inflated, look like sausages and beef steaks. They're on display at Japanese Premium Beef, a butcher shop and restaurant in New York City.

Link -via Nerdcore

Photographer Ian Spanier sometimes needs to do mobile work without an assistant. So he built a backpack that will carry all of his gear as well as hold a flash on an adjustable boom. His base is a pack used by birdwatchers for transport spotting scopes and tripods. All of Spanier's gear fits neatly inside. View more pictures at the link.

Link -via Gizmodo

The 1978 movie Watership Down begins with the rabbit folktale "The Blessing of El-ahrairah" expressed in a unique and memorable animation style. Redditor MatchingAlice is slowly building a sleeve tattoo depicting El-ahrairah and his rabbits in this scene. View more pictures at the link.

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Previously: 10 Facts You Might Not Know about Watership Down

Ryosuke Fukusada's light bulb looks like a solid block of wood. But it's actually an LED light with a wood veneer. When it's turned on, the bulb glows a fiery orange.

Link -via DVICE

Would you like to play Mares of War? Hoof-Life? Dash Effect? These games inspired by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aren't real, but deviantART member nickyv917 has some great ideas. Check out his gallery at the link.

Link -via Kotaku

The Caen, France-based design agency Murmure made these memorable and heavy business cards. You probably can't fit many in your pocket, but you can stack them on wooden pallets, built to scale.

Link (Google Translate) | Agency Website

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I had no idea that iPads could do this! I must buy one immediately. In this video, magician Simon Pierro attaches a spigot to an iPad and uses it to distribute beer to visitors to the Hofbraeuhaus in Munich.

-via The Presurfer | Pierro's Website

Lauren Berkley spotted this brilliant costume at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. From a closeup image at the link, you can see the matching eye makeup.

I can see it now: the Star Wars story retold in Elizabethan English in a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre. May it be so.

Link -via Fashionably Geek

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R2-D2 is on a murderous rampage through the streets of Liberty City. JMoorfoot4's modification of the game Grand Theft Auto IV shows us what happens when that cute little droid finally snaps. You can download it at the link.

Link -via Kotaku

In 1996, there were 5 billion floppy disks in use. How many is that? Instructables user Jetpack5 says, "If you stack them one on top of each other it will reach from here to someone that is tired of stacking up floppy disks." That's a lot.

He's putting his to good use. With a few rubber bands to help, Jetpack5 can recreate scenes from Star Wars. You can, too, by following his instructions at the link.

Link -via Technabob