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Married, But Already Cheating



A redditor got married and his groomsmen entered the Konami Code to get his marriage off to the right start. What sort of power-ups will this enable?

Link -via GeekDad

Car Jumping Rope


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This viral ad for Original Penguin menswear shows a lowrider with hydraulics so powerful that the car can jump off the ground -- even jump rope! Ah, but can it do a criss-cross?

-via Doobybrain

Tinker Belle Needs a Shave



And someone take that beer away from Sleeping Beauty. She's underage.

Ethan Trewhitt found these Disney Princesses at Dragon*Con. Pocahontas is actually fairly convincing.

Link -via Walyou (warning: auto-sound)

Teaching Calculus with Chocolate



Tim Chartier, a math professor at Davidson College, found a way to express a principle of calculus using the best of all possible source materials: chocolate. He created a series of enlarging charts featuring a growing number of chocolate chips:

If you count carefully, we use 83 milk chocolate chips of the 121 total. This gives us an estimate of 2.7438 for ?, which correlates to an error of about 0.378. [...]

What do you notice is happening to the error as we reduce the size of the squares? Indeed, our estimates are converging to the exact area. Here lies a fundamental concept of Calculus. If we were able to construct such chocolate chip mosaics with grids of ever increasing size, then we would converge to the exact area. Said another way, as the area of the squares approaches zero, the limit of our estimates will converge to ?. Keep in mind, we would need an infinite number of chocolate chips to estimate ? exactly, which is a very irrational thing to do!


http://forum.davidson.edu/mathmovement/2011/09/30/chocolate-chip-pi/ -via That's Nerdalicious!

Shopdropped Cereal Boxes



Something's just a bit different about these cereal boxes created by Ron English, but I can't put my finger on it. But seriously, last week I discovered that Lucky Charms are totally awesome for supper. Think outside the box, you know.

Link -via Super Punch

Previously by Ron English:
Dissected Captain America
Illegal McDonald's Billboard

Drunk Man Tries to Use Taco as ID, Police Reject It

A man passed out in the drive-through lane at a Taco Bell in Jensen Beach, Florida. When police arrived and asked for ID, the suspect pulled a taco out of his pocket and offered it to the officer:

A deputy awoke Falkner and then asked for his ID. Falkner said no before reaching into his bag and presenting the officer with a taco. Another deputy clarified they were asking for an ID, not a taco. Falkner chuckled and began eating the taco.


The suspect is just ahead of his time. In the future, a Taco Bell taco will carry weight in society.

Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user LindsayT....

A Chicken Roasted in Clay



It never occurred to me before, but it makes sense: if you can roast a chicken in a clay oven, such as a tandoor, why not just wrap the bird in clay and stick it in the oven? Tasteologie has a video and pictures of chefs showing you how it's done.

Link | Photo: Tasteologie

Warning: Balloon TARDIS Is Not Indestructible



A balloon artist named Kristy made a nearly full-size (at least on the outside) TARDIS. It materialized in an ideal location, don't you think?

Link -via The Mary Sue

Meat Mona Lisa



A Russian artist named Aleksandr Solomko works extensively with meat. Because, as you know, meat is awesome. He made a reproduction (more or less) of the Mona Lisa out of 20 kilograms of sliced sausage.

Link and More Information | Photo: Sergey

John Carpenter's The Thing as a Musical


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So many movies can be turned into fine musicals, such as Conan the Barbarian and Predator. But The Thing? Yes! And the swinging, jazzy 1950s lounge singer-style music is a perfect fit for John Carpenter's iconic horror movie.

Maybe they should try the reverse: turning musicals into horror movies. Oh, but that has been done!

-via Flavorwire

Haunting Images in Half-Silvered Mirrors



If you have a guest room, hang one of these mirrors in it. Don't explain what it is. Deny that there's a picture of a child and assert that it's just a mirror. Thanks to the creative work of Etsy seller Sandy Ervin, you'll have a good prank in the works.

Link -via Boing Boing

These Disney Princesses Can Rescue Themselves, Thank You Very Much



Anthony Herrera, who recently photoshopped Ewoks into the background of his children's vacation photos, made this cake to reflect the interests of his five-year old daughter. Best of all: he added little shy Ewoks into the designs on the sides of the cake. You can view more pictures at the link.

Link -via The Mary Sue

City Hires Mimes to Mock Bad Drivers

Mimes! It's a universally-acknowledged truism that you can never have too many mimes. The city of Caracas, Venezuela, demonstrated this by hiring mimes to stand in a neighborhood reputed to have the worst drivers. When drivers break the rules of driving safety, the mimes let the drivers know in a mime-ish way:

Dressed in clown-like outfits and white gloves took to the streets of the Sucre district this past week, the mimes wag their fingers at traffic violators and at pedestrians who streaked across busy avenues rather than waiting at crosswalks.

They found plenty to keep them busy in a city where motorcycle riders roar down sidewalks, buses drop passengers in the middle of busy streets and drivers treat red lights and speed limits as suggestions rather than orders.

"Most people are collaborating, but bad habits are usually hard to break and some drivers just don't change their ways," said Neidy Suarez, an 18-year-old mime wearing fluorescent yellow overalls and a bright red ribbon wrapped around her pigtails.


Link -via Jalopnik | Photo: AP

Golfer Wins His Weight in Ham

For hitting a hole-in-one on the third hole at a Spanish golf tournament, 235-pound Scottish golfer Elliot Saltman walked away with his body weight in ham:

Saltman made the shot from the par-3 third hole at El Encin Golf Hotel. Heavily cured and salted ham is a Spanish delicacy.

"I've been trying to lose weight, but now I'm thinking I should have just kept it," Saltman said.

Ham was the prize offered for a hole-in-one at the third -- prizes on other holes included a car and a watch.


Ah, pork. Now there's an incentive (hint, hint, Alex)!

Link -via Geekosystem | Photo: Julian Finney/Getty Images

10x Scale Rubik's Cube is Both a Puzzle and a Chest of Drawers



Instructables user makendo built this magnificent Rubik's Cube for his kids. The three horizontal layers rotate on a vertical axis. If you can figure out where the hidden locks are, you can open the drawers. So this is definitely not the place to store the fire extinguisher.

Watch a video of the cube at the link.

Link -via Make

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