To Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite, everything is an appropriate target for her needle. She cross stitches images onto car doors, old shovels, watering cans, and more. She'd probably stitch a pattern on to you if you'd hold still long enough. You can view other works by her and read an interview at the link.
Sports car maker Porsche offers wine bottle chillers that are taken out of old 911 G-series air-cooled engines. Can you find one from a '73 Vega? No, which is a pity, because nothing cools like an aluminum engine block.
Faster, faster! We're at the 24-minute mark! Don't stop; you can breathe later!
If you order a Whopper set meal, you can order as many extra Whoppers as you can eat within a 30-minute period
The Whopper is Burger King’s symbol all over the world.
Burger King ran this campaign last year as well, and said it was a success, even though it might be likened to a speed-eating contest in the hands of some gluttonous customers.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/food/view/burger-king-to-offer-all-you-can-eat-whopper-campaign-for-two-weeks -via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo: Flickr user shinya
The Copiale Cipher is a 105-page handwritten document that was composed sometime in the late Eighteenth Century. It has 75,000 characters, both symbols and Roman letters. Until recently, it was indecipherable. But now linguists using translation programs have decoded the first sixteen pages. Here's how they did it:
Eventually they concluded that the Roman letters were so-called nulls, meant to mislead the code breaker, and that the letters represented spaces between words made up of elaborate symbols. Another crucial discovery was that a colon indicated the doubling of the previous consonant.
The researchers used language-translation techniques like expected word frequency to guess what a symbol might equal in German.
“It turned out that we can apply a lot those techniques to code breaking,” Dr. Knight said.
The translated text reveals details for a ritual by a secret society.
So walk into one of these establishments, lay your head down on the lap of a woman, and let her massage and clean your ears. It's a meticulous process conducted by professionals who are maintaining a long and rich tradition in Japanese society:
Beatific's basic ear este service takes 70 minutes and costs ¥8,400 (about US$100). It begins with an ear wash, followed by massage of the ears, neck and shoulders. Then comes a meticulous ear cleaning, followed by more massage.
Other services include additional massage, facial, shave and "ear fortune telling," in which, by looking at an ear's unique characteristics, Takahashi claims to be able to divine a person's past and personality in order to advise them about the future. [....]
Some Japanese are lucky enough to have their own in-house ear cleaner: among a Japanese mother's many duties, keeping her children's and husband's ears clean is common.
Some unmarried women perform the task for their beaus, a few of whom may even return the favor.
But there's no winch or roll bar. Those used to come standard with the 80s era Lincoln Town Car (the last full size rear-wheel drive V8 sedan made by an American company and therefore, arguably, the last truly American car). I have no idea why this modder took them off.
In 1938, writers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights to one of their characters -- some guy by the name of Superman. DC wrote them a check for various services, $130 of which was for Superman. Siegel and Shuster split the profits between them. Not bad for a day's work, eh?
That check, pictured above, be auctioned in November. And hopefully for more than its original value.
Three years ago, we featured some of the amazing papercraft works of Yulia Brodskaya. Since that time, she's honed her craft to an astonishing degree. This image is, believe it or not, just strips of paper attached to a base.
A group of Ohio University students urges you to be sensitive in your costuming decisions this Halloween. Don't generate cheap laughs at the expense of other cultures, including vampires, My Little Ponies, mimes, and the cast of Jersey Shore. You're better than that.
Etsy seller Beth Tastic took photographs and coated them with resin to produce this gorgeous bracelet. It'd be a fine way to preserve special memories.
Regine Ramseier apparently sprayed 2,000 blooming dandelions with some substance which caused them to retain their seeds. Then she stuck them in straws and attached them to panels, which she hung from the ceiling of a room. Click on the link to see more photos of this gorgeous installation.
Since 1964, General Mills has sold Lucky Charms cereal, padding the weight with toasted oat bits. Why? No idea. All they do is get in the way of the marshmallows, which contain all of the good luck (toasted oats are not good luck). Thankfully, Tom Lombardi warmed up his 3d printer and came up with this sieve to solve that problem.
YouTube user darkbluedrew no doubt deserved to win first prize at a dog costume competition. Her pooch can comfortably walk around in a rolling thank. Be sure to watch the other video, which shows the gun in action.
This unusual nebula, officially and rather dully named HH-222, stretches across ten light years of space. What caused its shape to form? NASA officials say, "One hypothesis is that the gas filament results from the wind from a young star impacting a nearby molecular cloud."
