Extremo the Clown is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who has created what he calls the city's strangest van. It's covered with what appear to be bronze sculptures and symbols. I can only guess about their meaning.
Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, US officials were worried about a Japanese invasion and occupation of those islands. One particular concern was the disposition of US currency in banks in Hawaii. They could not allow that money to fall into Japanese hands. So the military governor of Hawaii found a clever solution:
In January of 1942, the military governor of Hawaii (the territory was under the military's control after the Pearl Harbor bombing) recalled most of the currency in the future state, with some allowances as to not pull all of the cash out of the islands' economy. Five months later, bills like the one pictured -- called "Hawaii overprint notes" -- were issued. The theory was simple: if Hawaii fell into Japanese hands, these bills would no longer be legal tender in the United States. This contingency plan never came into play.
In total, over 65 million Hawaii overprint notes were created (totalling over $300 million), in four denominations -- $1, $5, $10, and $20, with the $5 note pictured above the rarest of the quartet. On October 21, 1944, ten months before Victory over Japan Day, the required use of these bills ceased.
It's a pity that they didn't put Lincoln in a Hawaiian shirt. He always looked good in Hawaiian shirts.
Hey caddy, my ball went into the water. Be a good sport and go in and get it, would you?
Well, maybe not at the Carbrook Golf Club in Brisbane, Australia, where half a dozen bullsharks live in the lake. They took up residence a few years ago when a nearby river flooded, and have been breeding since then. Some of the sharks are up to ten feet long. They've become quite an attraction, so groundskeepers feed them to encourage them to come near the shore. Watch a video of the sharks at the link.
http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16085330 -via Dave Barry
Before your little tyke rolls his first insanity check, he needs to know what he's getting into. Thankfully, Dr. Seuss (or deviantART user DrFaustusAU) made a shortened version of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" for younger minds.
You may be most familiar with licorice as a food flavor, but it's also a plant. Italian designer Cecilia Felli realized that it could provide a tasty alternative for people who like to chew on pencils. So chow down!
http://www.foodiction.net/2011/09/matitizia/ -via Oddity Central | Photo: Foodiction
And while you're at it, use proper diction. Emily and Matt Fitzpatrick of Steotch, who also made the Locutus of Borg Serenity Prayer sampler, created this Judge Judy-themed cross stitch.
NASA has confirmed that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins went through customs upon their return to Earth and the United States. They filled out the above form, declaring their travel itinerary and that they had brought back moon rocks, dust, and samples through the US border. They did not mention the whiskey smuggled inside Aldrin's suitcase.
Geek cred is obviously very important to dogs these days. Katie Mello made this AT-AT costume for her dog so that he'll be the coolest dog going trick-or-treating this year.
The Irish design firm Cheeky Shop came up this this great way to get into shape. Step 1: acquire a cheesecake. Step 2: get out this cutlery set. Step 3: eat!
The knife and fork weigh 1 kilogram each and the spoon 2 kilograms.
There's little information available at the Japanese-language website about this model. But from the pictures, it's clear that this is a precise model of the Nagant M1895 revolver, a handgun produced in vast numbers by Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Other pictures at the link show that it's articulated at several joints and can be loaded with wooden cartridges.
YouTube user troopertrent made a model DeLorean like the one featured in Back to the Future Part III. In that movie Marty McFly and Doc Brown had to push the time machine with a steam engine train to get it up to 88 MPH. troopertrent pushes his model DeLorean with a model train. As you can see at the end of the video, he went all-out on this production, because this is a completely functional model DeLorean time machine.
Are you serious about using your jacuzzi? Are you ready to take it to the max, or do you just use it to relax? If the latter, then you're definitely not ready to participate in the sport of extreme jacuzzing, which involves sitting in a jacuzzi in the most extreme environments. In the past, this band of daredevils has warmed up in a jacuzzi at the top of an Alpine peak. For their latest stunt, they suspended a jacuzzi 39 meters below a bridge in Switzerland.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/extreme-hot-tubbers-dangle-from-bridge/story-e6frfq80-1226159922021 and Official Website (Google Translate) -via Bit Rebels | Photo: Jaccuzzi.ch
The movie The Princess Bride is twenty-four year old, but it endures in pop culture, which often makes use of its more famous scenes and lines. In the above segment from the TV show Good Morning America, six cast members come together to talk about the making of the movie and how fans continue to remember them for it.
