Do you need to drive a tank? Call Drive-A-Tank, a company that lets you drive a tank.

When do you need to drive a tank? The correct answer is 'yes'. For as low as $399 a day, you can drive a tank through the woods near Kasota, Minnesota.

Link (warning: auto-sound) -via DVICE | Image: KARE

This news changes my plans for the weekend. John Lloyd Scharf wrote to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, asking if it would be legal to hunt Bigfoot. State official L. David Sinclair wrote back that as long as you have a hunting license, you can kill Bigfoot:

The statute that you cite (Section 61.021) refers only to game birds, game animals, fish, marine animals or other aquatic life. Generally speaking, other nongame wildlife is listed in Chapter 67 (nongame and threatened species) and Chapter 68 (nongame endangered species). "Nongame" means those species of vertebrate and invertebrate wildlife indigenous to Texas that are not classified as game animals, game birds, game fish, fur-bearing animals, endangered species, alligators, marine penaeid shrimp, or oysters. The Parks and Wildlife Commission may adopt regulations to allow a person to take, possess, buy, sell, transport, import, export or propagate nongame wildlife. If the Commission does not specifically list an indigenous, nongame species, then the species is considered non-protected nongame wildlife, e.g., coyote, bobcat, mountain lion, cotton-tailed rabbit, etc. A non-protected nongame animal may be hunted on private property with landowner consent by any means, at any time and there is no bag limit or possession limit.

An exotic animal is an animal that is non-indigenous to Texas. Unless the exotic is an endangered species then exotics may be hunted on private property with landowner consent. A hunting license is required. This does not include the dangerous wild animals that have been held in captivity and released for the purpose of hunting, which is commonly referred to as a "canned hunt".

That settles it. So, which caliber do you recommend for Bigfoot?

Link -via io9

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It was 1984. Apple had assembled top employees in a retreat to prepare for the big push against IBM. To inspire them, Steve Jobs made this video comparing the effort with World War II. Jobs, of course, was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But only for 28 seconds of a 9 minute video, which you can watch at the link.

Link -via Gizmodo

Previously: Steve Jobs as Willy Wonka

Talk to the hand. Bryan Cera's fully functional cell phone slips onto your hand like a glove. Put the pinky finger to your mouth and the thumb to your ear. You can watch a demonstration video at the link.

Link -via DVICE

This cake is not a lie. The 14-year old blogger behind Life in a Day got this awesome birthday cake designed to look like the one at the end of Portal.

Link -via The Insatiable Geek

Kohei Oda's specialty shop is the place to go when you're in great neat of a cactus in Hiroshima. Write that down just in case you should ever find yourself in that situation. In the meantime, look at the unusual and often monstrous-looking cacti that he's collected for customers.

Link (Google Translate) -via Spoon & Tamago

DeviantART member AidanT composed an image of James T. Kirk in fragile stained glass. Risky? Perhaps. But risk is our business.

Link -via Technabob

Some Roman Emperors violated tradition and died peacefully in their beds. Most, however, met violent ends, particularly in last two centuries of the empire in the West. Josh Fruhlinger, once a graduate student in ancient history, has sorted all of the Western emperors by the brutality of their deaths. The #1 position goes to Valerian (r. 253-260), the only Emperor to become a prisoner of war. The Persians were not kind:

Captured by the Persians and died in captivity; rumored to have been used as a human footstool by the Persian king, killed by having molten gold poured down his throat, then taxidermied.

Link -via Super Punch | Image: Saperaud

Imagine an alternate Star Wars in which R2-D2 is a human-shaped droid. This is what his/her eye would look like. Makeup master Jangsara made this composition for Star Wars Day.

Link -via The Mary Sue

Previously by this artist: Avengers-Inspired Eye Makeup

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The Seventies.

It was a weird time to be alive.

Redd Foxx is Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kris Kristofferson is Han Solo. Paul Lynde is Grand Moff Tarkin. The best part: Donny is Luke Skywalker and Marie is Leia Organa.

Donny and Marie Osmond are brother and sister.

Spoiler: they don't kiss.

-via Geek Diaper

Escrif, a street artist based in Valencia, Spain, composed this enormous mural for the Katowice Street Art Festival in Poland. What do you think would happen if we flipped the switch?

Link | Artist's Flickr Stream

Professor Utonium's mad dream was "to create the perfect little girls." DeviantART member salvation-series, with his drawing Playing God, reminds us that there's nothing cute about this children's cartoon.

Link -via Geekosystem

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Anthony Le goes by the name Master Le Cosplay, and he has earned the sobriquet. This Iron Man suit lights up and features a motorized helmet, shoulder missile pods and flight stabilizer flaps.

Link -via Fashionably Geek

Messes on the carpet? That's nothing. Now you have to worry about extermination. Ravelry member Peach Kraft knitted this Dalek costume for her pug to prepare for the invasion.

Link -via Craft

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This popular restaurant in Taipei, Taiwan is designed to resemble the first class cabin of an Airbus A380. The seats look like those you'd find on a jetliner and the waitresses are dressed like stewardesses. It's a fascinating story, but the report leaves a few questions unasked and unanswered:

Does it include a full security checkpoint simulation?

Are the restrooms the same that you'd find on a jet?

Is there an economy version?

-via Nag on the Lake