So do you get drunk in order to fulfill the message on your t-shirt, or do you put on the t-shirt because you plan to get drunk?

A man wearing a t-shirt reading "I'm A Drunk" crashed into a police car early Thursday on Long Island and is being charged with driving while intoxicated, police said. [...]

The entire message on his t-shirt reads "I'm Not An Alcoholic, I'm A Drunk. Alcoholics Go to Meetings."

There are so many different crimes that people can commit. Surely there is a market for a t-shirt for each one!

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Drunk-Driving-T-Shirt-Im-A-Drunk-Police-Car-Suffolk-County-Road-83-134035968.html -via Dave Barry | Photo: Flickr user Dan4th

To think that if only Henson had not died in 1990, this movie might exist. Draw R2D2, a site that invites artists to mash up two pop culture themes for a fortnight, selected the Muppets and The Lord of the Rings as source material. There's one particularly striking one at the link by Will Robertson which shows Fozzie Bear as a brave and determined Samwise.

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Previously: LOTR Re-Enacted by Muppets

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There can be awkward moments when you're a house guest. But it gets really uncomfortable when you realize that one of the people who lives in the house is a weirdo, as this ad for the Shelter Pet Project illustrates.

Organization Website -via reddit

Robotic bears are kind of a thing in Japan. This one is called Jukusui-kun, which means "deep sleep." You lie on top of it while sleeping. If you start to snore, it'll brush you across the face with its paw (claws are optional) to suggest that you stop. Watch a video of it in action at the link.

http://www.japantrends.com/robotic-bear-helps-quieten-snorers/ -via Popular Science

I only watched the first couple of episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic before getting bored and moving on. Is this what I've been missing? Why didn't you Bronies tell me the show got this awesome?!

Link -via blastr | Image: Royce Southerland

In retrospect, Eric Smith should have just bought the Halo armor directly:

Her ring wasn’t perfect. After being reshaped, the white gold band was smudged and uneven. The diamond, instead of a traditional, glittering transparent gem, was a canary yellow, her favorite color. She’d spoken at length about her dream engagement ring, how she wanted the diamond to be this specific, light shade of yellow. It looked blemished, yes, but that’s how she wanted it. And that’s how she was, really. Imperfect but still seemingly perfect.

It was the imperfect/perfect wedding ring -- a grand, romantic gesture. So, naturally, she broke up with him. Smith wanted to be rid of the ring, so he sold it on eBay. But the money remained in his PayPal account, a nagging reminder of this agonizing experience. He knew that he needed to get rid of the money in a meaningful way. A Master Chief armor set was, of course, that way:

I’d wanted the suit for so long, and after such epic heartbreak, receiving each piece of armor—arriving in seven shipments, over the course of eight months—became an unintentionally cathartic process. As the shoulders, forearms, chest-piece, and helmet arrived slowly, one section at a time… well, with each part I got a small piece of myself back.

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This is so much cooler than gull-wing doors. The art collective Five Ton Crane built an art car inspired by the Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Alan Rorie made the RFID-controlled car door. It opens by waving a fob in front of a sensor. The window in the door with has a cover that irises with the flip of a lever.

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Previously by Rorie: Raygun Gothic Rocketship

It's noteworthy that the sandwich factory put a lot of effort into cheating customers a small amount.

It seems like a metaphor for so much in life.

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In a beauty pageant, every edge helps. Everything feature must be perfect, every strand of hair must stay in place. In this case, that's about two hundred pounds worth. This dress is made of a massive quantity of human hair. It was created by Thelma Madine and Ryan Edwards for the Alternative Miss Liverpool competition this past weekend in Liverpool, UK.

Link -via Oddity Central | Photo: Voodou

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CSI: Gallifrey is a fine show, except that the Doctor is so brilliant that the episodes are a bit short. On the upside: the Tenth Doctor's personality is far less annoying than that of Horatio Crane.

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It's okay. Those tables came that way. French designer Suzy Lelièvre has a gift for adding fluidity to solid objects. This piece is entitled "Contortions, Shocked Tables."

Link | Designer's Website (Google Translate) | Photo: Veronique Huyghe, ENSCI

South Korea is a densely-populated nation, and so has diminishing room for appropriate places to bury the dead. A law passed a decade ago even requires people to exhume loved ones within sixty years of burial. Cremation has thus become increasingly popular, and one company has responded to this change by offering to turn human ashes into small crystal beads:

Bonhyang founder and CEO Bae Jae-yul says the beads allow people to keep their relatives close to them, wherever they go. He also says stored ashes can rot, a claim denied by crematoriums. "Our beads are clean; they don't become moldy and don't go off and smell bad," he says.

Bae uses ultrahigh temperature to melt cremated ashes until they are crystalized and can be turned into beads in a 90-minute process. The colors are mostly blue-green but sometimes pink, purple and black.

The ashes of one person can produce four to five cups of beads, Bae says, although the ashes of young people have a higher bone density that can yield up to eight cups of beads.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gT0OwyQFgT51TghLEBo8-t9yOHWQ?docId=98c742f31df842fa94a1b76bc894685e -via Oddity Central| Photo: AP/Ahn Young-joon

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Sauron has high expectations of us, and this new guy isn't helping our billable hours. Yeah, he's got some innovative ideas, but he isn't a team player. It may be time to call in an outside trainer for some community-building activities. I know a guy at Greenstorm Films -- you know, the people behind the Dora the Explorer spoof -- who can help.

-via The Mary Sue

I've long dreamed of eating a donut stuffed with sweetened peanut butter. But this concoction by the California donut shop chain Psycho Donuts may top that. It's filled with pumpkin pie and capped with maple flavoring and crushed graham crackers.

What new donut design would you create, if given the chance?

Official Website -via That's Nerdalicious!

But you should anticipate that strange people will try to crawl inside at times. Time Lords and their companions are annoying that way.

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