Hair trimmer? Dude, you need a machete for that forest. Publicis, an advertising agency in Germany, made this ad to promote a small body hair trimmer. It and a similar ad that you can find at the link make use of wild vines.
This is, by a wide margin, the funniest thing you will see on the Internet today. The great cartoonist Caldwell Tanner has made a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel for those of you who dream of the excitement of office life. The Boss wants his document yesterday. Why haven't you printed it? There are thirty pages and six possible endings to this story. See if you can survive.
A needle felted die is pretty cool. One with QR codes is even better. But one on which each code represents a number of dice is totally neat-o-rama! Scanning a side of Shannon Henry's needle felted die pulls up Random.org's six-sided dice generator. The red pips tells you how many dice you're rolling, so you can roll up to six six-sided dice just by scanning the correct side.
They're not quite up to the level of the Chuck E. Cheese band, but these quadcopters from the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab are off to a good start. Sign them for a single contract, set up a ten-city tour, and see what they can do.
Spotswood Rice had been born a slave. But by September of 1864, he was a free man and a soldier in the U.S. Army. His daughter was still enslaved in Missouri. Rice had work to do in the South, but he wanted his former mistress, Katherine Diggs, to know that he would return after the war to collect his daughter. So he sent Diggs a letter stating his intentions, and swearing vengeance if she harmed her:
I want you to understand kittey diggs that where ever you and I meets we are enmays to each orthere I offered once to pay you forty dollers for my own Child but I am glad now that you did not accept it Just hold on now as long as you can and the worse it will be for you you never in you life befor I came down hear did you give Children any thing not eny thing whatever not even a dollers worth of expencs now you call my children your pro[per]ty not so with me my Children is my own and I expect to get them and when I get ready to come after mary I will have bout a powrer and autherity to bring hear away and to exacute vengencens on them that holds my Child
There's serious doubt about the authenticity of Jourdan Anderson's similar letter. But Spotswood Rice's is real.
Humans have not walked on the moon since 1972. To some cynics, this means that the human will to build great, revolutionary technologies has faded.
The cynics are wrong. Behold the 24-hour cupcake ATM, developed by the best and the brightest at the Sprinkles bakery in Los Angeles. It stays continuously stocked with freshly-baked cupcakes.
There's something special about watching a person experience Star Wars for the first time. The expressions of wonder, excitement, sadness, and joy -- it's like experiencing them for yourself all over again. Here's a cat, sitting like a human, watching the Battle of Yavin from Episode IV. As the action heats up, about a minute into the video, he gets agitated.
A few months ago, I considered growing mutton chops. My wife said "Absolutely not." I proposed a compromise that would meet her halfway: just one mutton chop. This, too, was unacceptable. It's a pity, because I missed out on a great driver's license photo, like that of redditor adambard.
The German general Helmuth von Moltke the Elder once said, "No plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy." This is often true: no matter how carefully you plan an undertaking, something will go wrong. Take, for example, the cunning plan of an accused bank robber in Atlanta, Georgia. He demanded money from a teller, who refused and hid behind bullet-proof glass. The suspect was unable to get past the barrier, so he left the bank without any money. This meant that he had no money to pay for the taxi, which was his getaway vehicle:
According to Chamblee police, the taxi driver said she picked up the passenger at the Chamblee MARTA station and transported him round trip to the Wells Fargo.
Upon their return to the MARTA station, the man told the driver he needed to go to the station parking lot to get money out of his car to pay for the trip.
The driver, concerned her passenger was going to skip out without paying, blocked his car with the taxi and got the attention of a MARTA officer. The officer didn't know about the bank robbery and talked Gladston into going back to the bank to withdraw money to pay for the cab ride.
When the suspect went back into the bank to get money to pay for his taxi ride, bank employees informed police officers (who had by then arrived) that he was the robber. Police then arrested the suspect.
Those of us who merely watched the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake on screens got to witness something amazing: the resiliency and resourcefulness of the Japanese people. And we're still seeing it as Japan prepares for future earthquakes. Here's one example. Youichi Sakamoto invented a foundation structure that raises buildings on air pockets as soon as an earthquake starts:
1. A sensor detects the rumblings of an earthquake.
2. Within .5 to 1 second an air tank pushes air in-between an artificial foundation and the actual structure of the home, lifting it as high as 3cm off the ground.
3. While the earth below violently shakes, the levitating home quietly and patiently waits, returning back to the ground once the tectonic plates have settled.
Cupcakes. Why'd it have to be cupcakes? Kati Peck's Indiana Jones captures the whole movie franchise with a whip, a hat and lots of sugar. Visit her photostream to see cupcakes with Lost, True Blood, and Watchmen themes.
In this video, Pete Weber clinched his victory in the Professional Bowlers Association's U.S. Open. It's Weber's fifth U.S. Open title, and he seems rather pleased, doesn't he?
I think that I'll mimic this routine after publishing each post for the next day.
Graphic designer Chacho Puebla posed his grandmother with signs offering prudent advice about using computers and social media. What is unstated in this one is that women leave their Excel husbands for Illustrator lovers.
redditor ihatepants writes "My Vietnamese mom had these in the freezer to scare me. It worked." Fine, then, hand me your portion.
Other redditors identify these cute little fellows as Giant Water Bugs and note that their aggressive behavior. In some parts of the world, they're called "Toe Biters."
