I haven't been able to track down any information about it, but allegedly this dragon figure is actually a dumpling. It's filled with a green substance and apparently steamed. You can see additional photos of the creation process at the link.

Link -via Bit Rebels

Newspaper Blackout is Austin Kleon's latest poetry project. He's taken pages of text, often from newspapers, and blacked out words so that those left behind form free verse lines.

Link -via My Modern Met

Previously by Austin Kleon
How to Steal Like an Artist
Tea Stain Drawings

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Work with the talents that you have; embrace the person that you are. Just like Milk Man has done. Milk powers aren't too bad, as Freddie Wong's latest film demonstrates.

Actually, I encountered the best/worst superhero concept in a role-playing game about ten years ago. This superhero could psychically make opponents lose control of their bowels.

-via The Mary Sue

My favorite part of this cake from Sweet on Cakes is the wedding dress modeled on stormtrooper armor. Now if you get nervous walking down the aisle at your wedding, just remember Davish Krail's relationship advice: stay on target.

In the comments, borrow and misuse lines from Star Wars to advise the happy couple on marriage.

Bakery Website -via That's Nerdalicious!

Fear not, for the streets are safe again. Or the ice rink, at least. Police arrested the driver of an ice resurfacer at a rink in Apple Valley, Minnesota after people reported that he drove erratically:

Dornstreich, who coaches the Eastview Hockey Association's PeeWee C team, said he'd noticed that the rink attendant's eyes were red and that he smelled like the energy drink Red Bull before his team took the ice.

"He looked like I do when I have my allergy attacks," Dornstreich said. "I didn't really think anything of it. He didn't slur his words. He was very alert, got me the keys, we set up the music system and I was on my way."

Before the PeeWee C players, ages 11 to 13, took the ice, Dornstreich said he noticed that the rink attendant was "making stripes on the ice." But the driver went back and corrected all his mistakes. After the game it was a different story, though.

While Dornstreich was working with a referee, a parent ran over to say that the rink attendant was "weaving all over, slurring his words."

But he wasn't on a public road. Can he be prosecuted for drunk driving? Under Minnesota law, yes:

People have been arrested in Minnesota for driving under the influence on everything from a souped-up motorized recliner to a farm tractor. State law says a DWI can result from driving any kind of a motorized vehicle, pretty much anywhere -- a forklift driver at work, a Bobcat driver plowing city sidewalks, a riding lawn mower in a yard.

The Minnesota Court of Appeals did, however, say in 2011 that a physically disabled man driving a motorized scooter could not be convicted of drunken driving. The law makes an exception for "an electric personal assistive mobility device" and the court said the scooter was a wheelchair, not a motor vehicle.

Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user ejhogbin

Jenine Shereos's delicate leaf sculptures look like the real thing from a distance, but they're actually made of hair. She made them by stitching the hairs together on a backing, then dissolving that backing in water.

Link -via Colossal | Photo: Robert Diamante

The Super Bowl is only four days away, so you'd best get ready! Here's a single-serving deli platter shaped like a football stadium. You can view five similar works of food art at the link. Link -via Paul Overton | Previously: Snack Food Stadium | Photo: unknown

This clever recipe makes use of the hole left by the pit of an avocado. You'll probably need to bore the hole a bit with a cookie cutter. Then fry the avocado in a skillet, add the egg, cook for two minutes, and serve.

Link -via Tasteologie | Photo: Babble

Oscar Nuñez's comic book-inspired bookshelves are a great place to keep your manga. They're made of fiberboard covered with walnut veneer. This is the larger, forty-inch long model for extended dialogue scenes.

Link -via Comics Alliance | Photo: Freshome

The Chariot is Exmovere's vision for the future of the mobility scooter. Like a Segway PT, it's guided by movements in the hips and lower torso to signal direction and speed. As a result, users have both hands available for other tasks. There are two videos and more pictures at the link.

Link -via DVICE | Photo: Exmovere Holdings

Lisa Nilsson used Japanese mulberry tree paper and gilt-edged paper from old books to recreate human anatomical images. It was clever of her to see a similarity between curled paper and human body tissues. View several more works at the link.

Link -via Nerdcore | Previously: Paper Quilled Starry Night

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Whether you're watching lacrosse, hockey, or golf, body checking always makes a sport more interesting. Here's a Norwegian exhibition of soccer than incorporates this insight.

-via @JessFink

This mesmerizing structure is an arrangement on display at the 2012 Light Festival of Ghent, Belgium. The Italian firm Luminarie De Cagna carefully arranged its 55,000 LEDs. The apparent height of the ceiling is no camera trick. It's twenty-eight meters high and visitors can walk right in.

Link -via Colossal | Photo: Stijn Coppens

(Video Link)And from that day on, none of them could look at a woolen scarf without breaking out in a cold sweat.

The sheep. They're coming for you.

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Union representatives and government inspectors are looking into complaints that managers at a Norwegian call center forbid employees from spending more than eight minutes a day on, uh, personal business:

Managers are alerted by flashing lights if an employee is away from their desk for a loo break or other "personal activities" beyond the allotted time. [...]

A spokesman added: "Surveying staff to limit lavatory visits, cigarette breaks, personal phone calls and other personal needs to a total of eight minutes per day is highly restrictive and intrusive and must be stopped."

The firm said the aim of the checks was not to measure the breaks taken by individual workers but to assess staffing needs to ensure all calls from customers were answered and it would now be reviewing the policy.

It is the latest example of lavatory rules in Norwegian companies.

Last year the country's workplace ombudsman said one firm was reported for making women workers wear a red bracelet when they were having their period to justify more frequent trips to the loo.

Another company made staff sign a lavatory "visitors book" while a third issued employees with an electronic key card to gain access to the lavatories so they could monitor breaks.

Did you see that, Alex? Employees at other companies are allowed to go to the restroom during their shifts.

Link | Photo: Flickr user John Steven