Kids these days, what with their "Internets" and doing the Twitters and whatnot. Why, you can send perfectly good long-distance messages with a teletype machine! That's what a fellow named Mdziewie did. He rigged a 1963 model teletype printer to accept and transmit text messages. The site is in Polish, but Google Translate will give you a sense of how he wrote the software and modified a modem. You can watch a video of the machine at the link. Link (Google Translate) -via Geekosystem

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YouTube user rachelgfisher was driving down the highway when her husband noticed that a snake slithered out from under the hood. He identified it as a water moccasin, a poisonous snake common to the southeastern United States. The snake moved over the windshield and onto the driver side mirror. It looks like it was trying to get into the cabin for safety, but those mean humans denied it entry. -via Joe Carter

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This viral marketing video by Thinkmodo shows a young woman walking around Bryant Park in New York City. Her head is encased in iPads, each of which shows one part of her head. It's a promotional item for a new iPad magazine called Cosmo for Guys. Agency Website -via Doobybrain

In 1975, Marcia Weber bought a caboose made in 1909. Over the past thirty-six years, she's gradually turned it into a functional home with indoor heating and plumbing. There are beds, a full kitchen, and even a washer and dryer. See more photos of this amazing home conversion at the link. Link -via Craft | Photo: Marcia Weber

It's a simple design, but there's something mesmerizing about this tattoo by Xed Lehead. The shading is really nice work. Link -via F-Yeah Tattoos | Photo: Needles and Sins

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An active windshield wiper may not seem like a good place to perch, but this bird isn't choosy. That, or he's not going to let the humans push him off. -via Blame It on the Voices

You went to school at that place? You're braver than I thought. redditor MrDrProfFrPatrick noticed that his school, Parkland High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is shaped like the Millennium Falcon. Link | Google Maps Link

A psychometric consulting firm named AptiQuant asked 100,000 people to take an online IQ test, and then correlated scores with the web browsers used to take them. The blue bars represent test results from 2006 and the red bars test results from 2011. The vertical axis represents IQ points. Link -via Geekologie

UPDATE: The story was a hoax. Thanks to commenter che.

Agustina Woodgate, an artist from Argentina, works extensively with human hair. For her "I Wanted to Be a Princess" project, she crafted 3,000 bricks out of hair and then assembled them into two medieval-looking castles.

Link -via Geekosystem | Artist's Website | Photo: Inhabitat

Three members of the art studio Degree came up with this clever poster design. It looks like just a tree ring print until you look closely. The artists made it to promote the cause of biodiversty. Link -via Colossal

That's about right, but low-grade costuming and special effects are acceptable so as long as there's a good story. If the story is poor, no special effects budget can compensate for it.

Cats That Talk is a webcomic with many Doctor Who references. So if you're a Whoivan, you should check it out. http://catsthattalk.tumblr.com/post/7893337743/madmanwithoutabox-thanks-so-verity-much-verity -via reddit

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The art collective This Is It made this video entitled "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared." It starts out like a pleasant children's puppet video about how all of us can think creatively and use our imaginations. Then everything goes delightfully, horribly wrong.

It's rather creative, actually.

Studio Website -via Flavorwire

In September 1990, retired detectives and other criminal investigation professionals came together to have lunch and talk about unsolved crimes. Now the Vidocq Society, comprised of some of the best investigators in the world, meets once a month to take on the hardest, coldest cases in the US:

Vidocq Society meetings – billed on its website as 'Cuisine and Crime-Solving' – now take place in Philadelphia on the third Thursday of every month; members gather beneath the electric chandeliers of the wood-panelled Downtown Club to have lunch and, afterwards, to help find a solution to a cold-case homicide. With 82 full, and more than 100 associate, members – a mix of men and women who must be invited to join by a committee – the society is a voluntary brains trust of retired and working criminologists.

Over the years membership has been drawn from the entire spectrum of judicial and crime-fighting institutions: from the local district attorney's office to Interpol; from Philadelphia's medical examiner to renowned FBI profilers. The society boasts members from 17 US states and 11 other countries around the world.

The society only takes murder cases that have been unsolved for at least two years and in which the victim was not a known criminal. Their work has led the exoneration of wrongfully convicted prisoners and the conviction of murders who thought that they had gotten away cleanly. Link -via Super Punch | Official Website | Photo: Vidocq Society

From days of long ago -- from uncharted regions of the universe -- comes a legend: the legend of Meowtron, defender of the universe. A mighty catbot, loved by good, feared by evil.

With this print, Mark James Yamamoto tells the Voltron story (the five lions version) as it was always meant to be told. http://rrgallery.storenvy.com/products/104060-meowtron-kube-print -via Uniblog

Steve Lambert, an artist, set out to create the most awkward 404 error page. That's what's generated when a server cannot find a requested webpage. He's definitely accomplished that goal. At the link, you can view a long video in which Lambert greets the viewer like a house guest who hasn't figured out that the party is long since over. http://visitsteve.com/404.html -via The Presurfer

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