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This Drawing Consists of a Single Line



Just one. That's it.

Chan Hwee Chong made this and other single line drawings, all in spirals, for a Faber Castell ad campaign. At the link, you can watch a video showing how he does it. It's amazing.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Faber-Castell/2267302 -via Colossal

Chewbacca Burger



Normally I find Wookiees to be too gamey for my taste. Like harsh venison. But this Chewburger by Charlton Yu looks mild enough.

Link -via That's Nerdalicious!

Every Time the Doctor Regenerated


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The Doctor of Doctor Who is effectively immortal. On those rare occasions when he dies, he regenerates into a new form, often with a new personality. It's a fine time to switch actors, which is probably good because William Hartnell (who portrayed the First Doctor) would be 103 if he still lived.

Brian Rimmer, who once assembled a fine video showing the introductory theme to every Doctor Who series, has compiled the regeneration scenes of all eleven Doctors. The last one at 8:45 is just plain funny.

Double Waterfall Flaming Cocktail


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I don't care what it tastes like. I just want to see this bartender in action! This video shows a man setting a Mexican coffee (a type of cocktail) on fire and then pouring the flaming liquid in and out of serving dishes.

-via reddit

Stitched Head Necklace



You'd lose your head if it wasn't stitched on. Thankfully, Kerri McAlprin has solved that problem with this clever necklace.

Link -via The Mary Sue

Can a Venus Flytrap Digest Human Flesh?

At some point in our lives, each of us has wondered if a sufficiently large venus flytrap could eat us. Also, is there one lurking nearby? Can they fly or teleport at will? Barry White, a scientist (specifically, an astronomer), devised an experiment to partially resolve the first issue. Can a venus flytrap digest a portion of human flesh? Due to a case of athlete's foot, he had some to spare and fed it to the plant:

After a week, the traps opened. I had predicted the skin chunks would be relatively inert and unaffected. After all, these were hard, crusty chunks of skin from the sole of my diseased feet. Surely the Venus flytraps would have no effect upon them.

Was I ever wrong! The skin chunks were almost completely digested. Worse, what was left no longer had much cohesion, but was gooey and slimy, like little boogers. Uck! Uck! Uck! And what is with the weird hue shift to bacon color?? Uck! Uck! Uck! Iä! Iä!


You can see pictures of his semi-digested human flesh at the link. Because, you know, you want to. Admit it.

Link -via io9 | Photo: Flickr user sophitikittenlin

Voltron Fan Film Justifies Immediate Reboot of the Series Using All of Hollywood's Resources


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Yes.

Let it be done.

It is time for Voltron, the Defender of the Far Universe, to return to the screen. Hollywood: our supply of romantic comedies is quite adequate, thank you very much. Now devote your efforts to this noble cause. Spare no expense.

-via blastr

When You Need to Get Out Right Now, Use the Ejection Seat Office Chair



Your TPS reports are overdue, and you've got eight different bosses giving you contradictory instructions and telling you how much you've screwed up. It's time to get out, fast! This office chair, made from a real ejection seat from a Royal Navy strike aircraft, is just what you need.

Link -via Nerdcore | Photo: When It's Gone, It's Gone

X-Ray Stained Glass



Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is not one to, shall we say, hold himself back. He expresses his artistic impulses regardless of how other people might respond. Like tattooing pigs and, uh, anal kisses.

His latest installation takes the form of a Seventeenth Century Flemish baroque church filled with stained glass, mostly images pulled from x-rays. Pictured above is a close up view of one panel. You can see more at the link.

Link -via Boing Boing | Artist's Website

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....

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