Art student Brook Abboud, inventor of the pizza slice sleeping bag, knows how to make comfort food. Here's her beanbag chair featuring a satin pillow shaped like a pat of butter. Coat yourself with sour cream before sitting down for the complete experience.
A Polish modelmaker named Rafal Z made a tiny paper model of the Airbus A330 inside a light bulb. Oh, he didn't make it entirely inside. But he did add the wings. You can view more pictures at the link.
He worked as a court functionary for Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars, but Bib Fortuna was better known as a a great sage. Don't you grasp his wisdom? Here, watch a ten-minute continuous loop of his most famous statement. It'll make more sense afterwards.
This cute fruit soup of watermelon, raspberries and strawberries is topped with mango sliced into the shape of Wonder Woman's crest. Make it for the wonder-inspiring women in your family. You can find a simple recipe at the link.
Wyoming's legislature is considering a bill that would establish a commission to draw up a plan to prepare the state for the collapse of the United States government. Should that event ever occur, Wyoming's government would need to act as a national government by sustaining a currency, ensuring international commerce and providing military defense among other tasks. One provision of the bill would instruct the task force to examine:
[...] conditions under which the state of Wyoming should implement a draft, raise a standing army, marine corps, navy and air force and acquire strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier.
Wait, an aircraft carrier? It's not a completely ridiculous proposition, argues Kevin Underhill:
The state does not have a whole hell of a lot of water, to be honest. It appears that its largest lake is Yellowstone Lake, which on average is about 140 feet deep. (Yes, it's in a national park now, but that wouldn't matter, would it?) The draft of a Midway-class carrier, which you can probably find on eBay for cheap, was only 33 feet; even the biggest carrier available (Nimitz-class) only needs about 40 feet of water to float. So yes, assuming they could find one and figure out a way to get it in there, the people of Wyoming could potentially have their own aircraft carrier. It might not have much room to putt around in, but still.
For an art class project, Alexandria made this stained glass TARDIS. The top comes off, so she plans to use it to store candy. Keep an eye out for her future projects, which Alexandria says will have Doctor Who and Star Trek themes.
This clever ad by the Grey Group in Tokyo lets you split wood before you even enter the dojo for the first time. Also: chopping of your own leg at the same time. But no pain, no gain.
That would be disgusting, except that there's no fish in this concoction. It just looks like a sushi roll. Katelyn of Domestic Charm devised a simple recipe that uses only bananas, tortillas, honey, raisins, peanut butter and cinnamon. Roll them together for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
Yes, your soda is just fine. In fact, it's in perfect hibernation. This refrigerator is one of many rejected Star Wars/Pepsi merchandising concepts by Jason Geyer including Bantha slippers, an AT-AT chair caddy and a Jedi mood ring.
Though he was only fourteen years old, Hiram Cronk enlisted in the United States Army when British forces threatened Upstate New York. He participated in the defense of Sackets Harbor on Lake Ontario, serving for three months. Then he went home, became a shoemaker, got married and had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Cronk died in 1905 at the age of 105. He was the last American veteran of the War of 1812, so his funeral was a major public event in New York City. Watch the funeral procession, featuring veterans from the Civil War and Spanish-American War, move through Brooklyn.
BraveTart writes "I don’t know if I should feel ashamed or proud that I’ve written the world’s first and only Fringe/Reese's Cup fan fiction." I'm voting for "proud" because there's no such thing as too weird.
As an adult, Alan Turing proved to be a genius. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in computer science. But when he was a teenager, Turing was less impressive. Here's what his English instructor said about his work:
Without being lazy, he seems to do his work rather perfunctorily. I should like to see rather more life in him.
And his math teacher:
Works well. He is still very untidy. He must try to improve in this respect.
And his science teacher:
He is keen & has a natural bent for science, but his work is badly spoilt by extreme untidiness.
One headmaster wrote about his integration into the school community:
His ways sometimes tempt persecution: though I don’t think he is unhappy. Undeniably he is not a ‘normal’ boy: not the worse for that, but probably less happy.
redditor beadmandingo spotted Vincent Van Gogh walking around the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras. There's a lengthy discussion in the comment thread about the identity of the performer, who may be a local underground celebrity.
For a more modular ecclesiology, visit this temporary structure in the Netherlands. It's built not out of LEGO bricks, but Legioblocks -- concrete blocks made to resemble LEGO bricks. Michiel de Wit and Filip Jonker erected it for the Grenswerk Festival in the city of Enschede.
