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I'm not sure why the combination works, but it totally does. Hollywood musical queen Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) dances to the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." The musical rhythm syncs with the dancing, and sometimes the on-screen singing, too.

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You already smell like a library. Now, thanks to the coffee company Intelligensia Coffee, you can taste a librarian without getting slapped:

The Librarian's Blend is named for that person who always told you to keep quiet when you were studying. This blend is representative of the soul of the librarian: steady, reassuring, and always there with that slight edge of eccentricity. It has a bold base with a bit of sparkle. Here's to good reading.

Another flavored offered by the company is "Honey Badger." It's a bit more vigorous.

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I've kept a special place in my heart for Soundwave. He seems...well, competent. Unlike so many other Decepticons. It's jarring that a highly advanced robot transforms into an audio cassette player. But sometimes watching Transformers requires a suspension of disbelief.

So does this excellent action figure by Airmax, which combines Soundwave's intelligence with Cobra Commander's ability to screech "Retreat!"

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According to Ken Segall, the author of Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success, Steve Jobs devised an outlandish scheme to promote the iMac. Jobs would dress as Willy Wonka from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and give a lucky winner a tour of Apple's facilities:

Steve's idea was to do a Willy Wonka with it. Just as Wonka did in the movie, Steve wanted to put a golden certificate representing the millionth iMac inside the box of one iMac, and publicize that fact. Whoever opened the lucky iMac box would be refunded the purchase price and be flown to Cupertino, where he or she (and, presumably, the accompanying family) would be taken on a tour of the Apple campus.

Steve had already instructed his internal creative group to design a prototype golden certificate, which he shared with us. But the killer was that Steve wanted to go all out on this. He wanted to meet the lucky winner in full Willy Wonka garb. Yes, complete with top hat and tails.

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When street artist Filthy Luker goes to work, invisible giants deface walls, tentacled monsters burst out of buildings and trees sprout googly eyes. Luker lives in a mad world, but a fun one.

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Previously: 12 Fantastic Architectural Art Installations

This is a whole, uncooked egg, minus the shell. To make one of your own, soak an egg in vinegar for two days. The acetic acid in the vinegar will break down the shell while hardening the contents.

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Scrooge McDuck, that great genius of anatine finance, is fond of diving into his vast piles of money. No doubt all of us would like to do likewise. So how much would it cost? Matt Powers, whose qualifications include being "good at making up fake math", crunched the numbers:

Looking at some of the best pictorial evidence of the McDuck vault, it is evident that this large pile of gold on the left appears to be five feet tall. This is deduced under the assumption that the average duck 14 inches tall, which is then used comparatively to quantify the pile (5 ft = 4.3 duck heights). With a little calculus and graph-work, the rough integral can pinpointed to y=-x2-1x+5. This equation puts every “x” and every “y” value at exactly one inch, as seen below.

When the area under the curve is calculated (from x=-3 to x=5), it yields roughly 46 square inches. The assumption will be made here that one cubic inch is roughly one ounce of gold. To convert that into a dome shape the value is simply cubed, which becomes 97,366 ounces. Given that 1 ounce of gold is roughly $5.00, it can extrapolated that each large pile of gold in the vault is worth $486,830.

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This polar bear does a handstand underwater. Why? Because he can, and the humans watching him probably can't.

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Red Dawn, the story of a Soviet invasion of the United States, begins with Russian airborne troops dropping into a small town in Colorado. Did you think that was a ridiculous idea? Stop laughing, because it's about to come true. The Russians are coming:

Russian soldiers will receive preparatory training in Colorado’s Fort Carson with the US weaponry and equipment they are to use during the operation. The drills include parachuting, operation planning, reconnaissance, assault operations and evacuations by helicopter.

“According to the exercise scenario, soldiers of the two countries will hold a tactical airborne operation, including reconnaissance of an imaginary terrorists' camp and a raid,” Colonel Kucherenko revealed.

Wolverines!

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Winds at an airport in Bilbao, Spain reached 40 MPH. Pilots continued to land their planes even though, as you can see, they were getting shoved sideways across the runway. Officials didn't cancel a single flight.

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The people of MaP (Maximum Performance) are devoted to one goal: improving the design of flush toilets. In order to effectively test toilets, they need a material that accurately simulates human-delivered content. Their research led them to create 350 gram segments of soybean paste, which are dropped into a toilet from an appropriate level and location.

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The French fashion design house Monsieur Lacenaire offers a classy sweater for old school gamers. Space Invaders? Certainly not. That's a copyrighted game and completely different. This is Sheep Invaders, which is also a custom game that you can play at the link.

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Le Chuck explained, "Aunt Beru said there was no room on the moisture farm for another full size cabinet so I made one 1:6 scale." It is a marvel. Le Chuck's model is a faithful, detailed reproduction of a full size cabinet from 1983. And it works! Skip ahead to 4:00 to see him playing it.

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Is the glass floor sturdy enough to hold you? Certainly. At no point in the indefinite future, while you are seeking relief, will it suddenly break and let you plummet to your death fifteen stories down. Just relax and tend to your business in this penthouse bathroom in Guadalajara, Mexico. Architect Hernandez Silva probably did some structural analysis and whatnot.

Link -via Geekosystem | Architect's Website

"Why Latin? That's not a practical language to study. Choose a different one." Oh, those were foolish words. Sure, the Latin option at the Vatican's ATMs disappeared a year ago. But up until that time, you'd have a good excuse to study it.

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