The Super Bowl is less than three weeks away, so you'd better start making plans. These strawberry treats are hardcore football fan food. Jackie Dodd of Domestic Fits provides a simple recipe at the link.

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Big Daddy Vini, the legendary car customizer, build this portable billiard hall onto an old Chevrolet Monte Carlo chassis. When it's on site, levels make sure that the table is properly balanced. The cab features a refrigerator and a television set for all of your hustling needs. View more pictures and videos at the link.

Link -via Jalopnik

Previously: Volkswagen Hippie Van Pool Table

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It's like all of cinematic history has been a grand conspiracy to express the lyrics of Lionel Richie's song "Hello." Thankfully, Matthijs Vlot has uncovered the truth. -via Nerdcore | Vlot's Website

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Mathematical crafters Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer have lately been exploring ways to knit optical illusions. The results are amazing! They have other knitted illusions at the link, including ones showing characters from Doctor Who, Twilight, and Harry Potter.

Link -via Craft

Previously by these artists: Knitted Napier's Bones

If you eat everything, it's free and you get a t-shirt and your picture posted on the hall of fame. Despite this motivation, only one person has finished the Winkinator Challenge from Mary Jane's Cafe in Warrensburg, Missouri:

The breakfast challenge consists of a MASSIVE 17? diameter x 1/2? thick pancake, 12 eggs, 8 pieces of sausage, 12 strips of bacon, & 2 large glasses of chocolate milk. The platter weighs just over 5 Lbs.

http://damnthatlooksgood.com/the-winkinator-challenge-from-mary-janes-cafe/ -via That's Nerdalicious!

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The Dynamic & Intuitive Control Experience (DICE) is an experimental system that could allow people to control cars by moving their hands in front of sensors. It also has options to access social media and entertainment options while driving. What could possibly go wrong?

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Hot or not? Cast your vote! A union of subway workers in New York City found an ingenious way of drawing attention to the rat problem that its members have to deal with every day. It's holding a contest that encourages people to submit photos of rats found in the tunnels and rate them on a scale of one to five.

http://ratfreesubways.com/ratgallery -via Oddity Central

Molly Rausch takes classic postage stamps and imagines the scenes that lay beyond their limited scope. She begins by pasting the stamp on paper and then adding watercolors and gouaches. Rausch does no research on the stamps, so her works are exercises in pure speculation (as the flying saucer over the White House suggests).

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For the ultimate retro look, get Leonardo da Vinci's handbag. It's a modern leather purse from the fashion house Ghrardini that is based on a design sketched by Leonardo in the Codex Atlanticus, a collection of his notes and drawings. At the link, you can watch a video of an artisan assembling one.

Link -via American Digest | Photo: Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci

To promote an upcoming celebration of Dutch literature, the ad agency Van Wantern Etcetera carved portraits of four Dutch writers into copies of their autobiographical and biographical works. At the link, you can find other book sculptures in the series depicting Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdolah.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Written-Portraits/1132577 -via NotCot | Agency Website

Science fiction movies such as Demolition Man inform us that the future of locksmithing lies in biometric recognition technology, like retinal scans. They were partially right. Locks will scan users' body parts, but not always the eyes. Researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a car seat that measures and evaluates the body shape of the person sitting in it:

The trick is that the system measures the pressure people apply on the seat through a set of 360 sensors.

Each sensor is measuring pressure by its own and sends the information to a laptop, which aggregates the information to show key data like the highest value of pressure, area of contact on the seat (see below), and other factors. According to its makers, the system was able to identify drivers with 98% accuracy during experiments.

For every lock, there's a lockpick. How do you think thieves will crack this system?

Link -via Technabob | Photo: Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

Two years ago, a woman walked into the Corner Perk coffee shop in Bluffton, South Carolina and paid for a cup of coffee with a hundred dollar bill. She asked the barista to use the change to pay for other people's orders as they came in. This surprising act of generosity to strangers spun into a cycle of giving:

"People will come in and say, “What do you mean? I don't understand. Are you trying to buy me a coffee today?” And I say,” No, somebody came in 30 minutes ago and left money to pay for drinks until it runs out,” The Corner Perk owner Josh Cooke said.

It kicked off two years ago with an average-joe customer who left the first one hundred dollar bill.

"It's someone that just has a kind heart and wants that to generate in this area,’ Cooke said of the anonymous donor.

She got what she wanted -- not just customers, but strangers who heard what was happening started paying for people who follow.

"He said I want to do that, too. He just gave me the hundred dollars and left. He didn't even get anything,” Corner Perk’s Sara Clemmons said.

None leaves their name, only their money and a feeling of inspiration jolting this community.

Link -via Adrienne Crezo | Photo (unrelated) by Flickr user The Marmot | Cafe Website

What is going on in this photo that briefly appeared on the website of The New Hampshire Union-Leader? Thanks to a screenshot grabbed by Jason Linkins of The Huffington Post, we know that the caption read:

Firefighters wrap up the scene at a fire at 15 M. St. in Hampton this morning, where a home was gutted by two fires this morning. Right, Wayne McGowen, who was sleeping in the basement of the house when it caught fire, watches firefighters at the scene along with neighbor Kali Burns, who was dressed a a gorilla.

Linkins refers to this image and its caption by reporter Jason Shreiber as a great moment in photojournalism. I couldn't agree more.

Link -via The Agitator

Even when it's scaled down to minifig level, a Saturn V rocket is huge! LEGO artist Ryan McNaught built this one out of 120,000 bricks. It includes important details, such as liquid oxygen tanks and a panicking astronaut at ground level.

Link -via Nerd Approved | Photo: Melbourne Headshot Company

Previously by This Artist: LEGO Love Boat

Christopher Lloyd was a great Doc Brown, but I can't see him as the Doctor. Yet deviantART user Ratgirlstudios's re-imagining of a Back to the Future Part II poster prompts us to consider the possibility.

Link -via The Mary Sue