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Fum the cat and Gebra the barn owl have a remarkable relationship. They actively play together. Gebra is quite tolerant of Fum's constant attempts to capture her in midair.

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Previously: 13 Animal Friendships Sure to Melt Your Heart

Ed Bing Lee, inspired by the food paintings of pop artist Wayne Thiebaud, created eighteen probably inedible works of macrame. The above burger is made of waxed linen, raffia, and cotton. Click on the link to see the rest of his gallery.

http://www.edbinglee.com/index.php?/root/delectables/ via Flavorwire | Photo: Ken Yanoviak

This 1980 Chevrolet Citation was put through serious modifications. The 2.5L engine was moved to the back so that the front could lose a wheel, and the remainder moved to the center. So it's basically a trike that started it's life as a car. Or, as the owner named it, the Tritation.

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Because you've always wanted to know, right? It's a fairly straightforward process. Cut off the doll's head and then saw off the top of her skull. Next, cut the stem of the plastic wine glass (or a glass one, if you're daring) at the level so that the top will fit over the hole in the doll's neck. Shove them together, pour wine, and serve.

Link via The Breda Fallacy's Facebook page | Photo: Edith Zimmerman

Instructables user spookylean, who previously taught us how to turn an Altoids tin into a martini kit, now shows us how to make a model of an X-Wing fighter using common office supplies. You'll need a chisel Sharpie, two large and two small binder clips, a SM card, four pens, four brass fasteners, a pencil sharpener, hot glue, and poster putty.

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Tofi Stoler works extensively with staples as her medium. One of her recent works is a recreation of Francisco de Goya's "The Third of May 1808", which depicts a massacre of Spaniards by French troops during the Napoleonic Wars. It's made entirely with staples and superglue.

Link via Boing Boing | Goya image: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Graduate students at the School of Visual Arts in New York City created an eighteen-hole golf course with each hole representing a particular phobia. Pictured above is Camille McMorrow's piece on the fear of taking tests. The exhibit will be up through this Saturday.

Link via Super Punch | Photo: Soo Ji Han

Previously: Miniature Golf Course in a Funeral Home Basement

The webcomic Pants Are Overrated (a sentiment that I heartily endorse) imagines Calvin 26 years after the end of Bill Watterson's comic. He's all grown and the father of a daughter (named, to continue the theme, after Francis Bacon). She can't sleep. Click on the link to read the rest.

http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/05_10_2011/hobbes-and-bacon via reddit

With just a few ingredients, Ole and Shania Olmanson created a composed a convincing portrait. All they used were cheddar, mozzarella, salami, bagels, olives, and lettuce.

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Megan Lara has created several images of geek icons reminiscent of the style of Art Nouveau illustrator Alphonse Mucha. This piece is part of a triptych also featuring Princess Peach and Samus Aran. In addition, Lara does tattoo designs, a medium that strikes me as quite appropriate for her style.

Artist Website via Fanboy

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Zero Charisma is a film project led by Katie Graham, Andrew Matthews, and Thomas Fernandes. They hope to raise $15,000 to turn the above trailer into a feature-length movie. Here's a synopsis of their story:

Scott Weidemeier spends his time in exactly three ways: working a menial job at a local donut shop, caring for his abusive grandmother, and running The Greatest Dungeons & Dragons Game of All Time. Though overbearing and short-tempered, Scott is a hero to his fellow players--that is, until neo-nerd hipster Miles Butler joins the game, fueling Scott's rampant insecurity and alienating him from his own players. Can Scott overcome his contempt for the mainstreaming of nerdery, or will this clash of the subcultures come to a head?

The best line from the trailer: "I weep for the women of your generation."

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Would life make more sense if you suddenly realized that you're actually inside Super Mario Bros.?

Also: turtles can climb fences? If snapping turtles can do this and develop opposable thumbs, we're in trouble.

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This simple but beautiful video from Harvard University shows fifteen pendulums of increasing length swinging to and fro. Sometimes they appear to be in sync, but at other times, not. Here's why:

The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each successive shorter pendulum is carefully adjusted so that it executes one additional oscillation in this period. Thus, the 15th pendulum (shortest) undergoes 65 oscillations. When all 15 pendulums are started together, they quickly fall out of sync—their relative phases continuously change because of their different periods of oscillation. However, after 60 seconds they will all have executed an integral number of oscillations and be back in sync again at that instant, ready to repeat the dance.

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The Marquis Los Cabos resort in Mexico now offers a thousand-dollar popsicle. What makes it so pricey? It's made with 24-carat gold flakes and a luxury band of tequila that costs $1500 a bottle.

The icy treat is served poolside on a classic plastic stick and has a little sugar in it to take the edge off, though salt would seem to be more appropriate.

The patrician popsicle joins a world of fantasy foods that includes the $1,000 pizza served at Nino’s Bellisima restaurant in New York and the $1,200 Mai Tai mixed up at the the Merchant Hotel in Belfast, Ireland.

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Wellington R. Burt (d. 1919) amassed a vast fortune during his lifetime, but he didn't want it to spoil his children or grandchildren. They needed to make it on their own in the world, so he bequeathed to them comparatively small stipends and ordered that the rest of his fortune -- now measured at $100 million -- be distributed to members of his family only 21 years after the death of his last grandchild. That time has finally arrived:

Now that it's 21 years since the death of the last grandchild, the fortune is finally being turned over to Cameron and 11 others, including three great-grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren and another great-great-great grandchild. The fortune is valued at more than $100 million. (She'll get a little more than $2.6 million, since those further up the family tree get more under a master agreement).

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