Are you counting the minutes until the new season of Game of Thrones airs? Well, I can't make that happen any sooner, but I can make you giggle in the meanwhile. This set of charts on Buzzfeed will only make sense to Game of Thrones Fans, but if you get them, you're bound to enjoy them.
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Often people think that, to make their home beautiful, they need to buy "stuff." Stuff like trendy furniture. Quirky occasional tables. Concept lighting and expensive tchotchkes. All of the above can cost a pretty penny. Yet a gallon of good quality paint is around $30 and can affect the style of a space in a bigger way than any other interior design element.
This article talks about painting as an integral part of the design of a space, but not necessarily painting walls. Read it to get some ideas on smaller, more unusual paint projects that make a sizable visual splash, such as the inside of the bookcase shown above.
This acutely adorable footage from the Monterey Bay Aquarium shows the African blackfooted penguins at the facility as they are given the freedom to waddle around and explore the space. The aquarium staff say that the activity is designed to keep the naturally inquisitive penguins happy and healthy. -Via Tastefully Offensive
The Walking Dead by Sophie Corrigan
It's hard to tell what Rick is looking for when he starts shouting "Coral!", but maybe he was a marine biologist in his pre-apocalyptic life? Even his own son Carl doesn't know what to do when daddy starts shouting "Coral!", but like a good son he puts up with his dad's strange speech impediments because he really doesn't have a choice. The walking dead don't make for very good company, but at least zombies don't go around shouting "Coral!" when they're hundreds of miles from the ocean!
Add this The Walking Dead t-shirt by Sophie Corrigan to your geeky wardrobe and watch your fellow fans grunt with wholehearted approval!
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Austin was feeling totally groovy after defeating the nefarious Nude Noodler, and his after mission party was in full swing when something came crashing through his roof. It looked like an ordinary blue police box, but last time he'd checked police boxes didn't fly. He went in for a closer look when a man emerged from inside the box, head bloodied and clothes in tatters. The man called himself The Doctor, and he told Austin a strange tale about aliens with amazing powers, screwdrivers that emitted sonic waves and time machines that were far bigger on the inside. The Doctor handed Austin a strange device, and with his dying breath he muttered "You're the Doctor now, Austin, and you must keep the universe totally shagadelic..."
Add a ridiculously good mashup to your geeky wardrobe with this Doctor Powers t-shirt by Saqman, it's the grooviest way to show love for your favorite fun franchises!
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A puppy stands guard next to his tiny, sleeping human, seemingly averse to falling asleep during guard duty. Yet his eyelids grow droopy. The warmth and comfort of the room and the deep breathing of the little being next to him are slowly lulling him to sleep. The pup holds out as long as he can, but acquiesces in the end. Sweet dreams, cuties. -Via Tastefully Offensive
NPR lays out the scenario:
You find a time machine and travel to 1920. A young Austrian artist and war veteran named Adolf Hitler is staying in the hotel room next to yours. The doors aren't locked, so you could easily stroll next door and smother him. World War II would never happen.
But Hitler hasn't done anything wrong yet. Is it acceptable to kill him to prevent World War II?
Leaving aside the highly dubious notion that World War II could be prevented with such a simple act or that the results would be more favorable than World War II as it unfolded in real history, you have a moral dilemma.
Rebecca Friesdorf, a graduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario examined how people respond to this and other moral dilemmas and their reasoning for their choices. She surveyed 6,100 people from the USA, Canada, and Germany. Friesdorf published the results of her study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Friesdorf found that women were less likely to kill Hitler when given the chance. Ben Tufft writes in The Independent:
While men and women both calculated the consequences of their decision and computed how many lives might be saved, females found it harder to commit murder and were more likely to let Hitler live.
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Chris Piers of the pop culture blog The Robot’s Pajamas runs a regular feature called “Star Trek Problems.” It highlights the painful reality that Trekkies must face: many aspects of Star Trek: The Next Generation don’t make sense. You can view them all here. Warning: be prepared to lose the next hour because you won’t be able to stop yourself from reading them all.
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The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable." Less so than in the years before the internet, they also field complaints from the public about the content on those services. According to the FCC, they use such complaints to "spot trends and practices that warrant investigation and enforcement action." All written complaints older than three years are purged.
A writer for The Atlantic sifted through three years of complaint letters to the FCC focused on the material of Saturday Night Live. Despite the first time it aired being in 2006, one offender was the Justin Timberlake sketch "D*ck in a Box." One viewer wrote,
"It was the Christmas show suggesting that men should give women their penis in a box as a present. I was offended, let alone thinking that younger children would have the opportunity to see the program."
Another said,
"It was not funny and it was beyond vulgar. The segment even includes Justin Timberlake whom was involved in the Janet Jackson superbowl stunt."
Read more from The Atlantic about things on Saturday Night Live that bothered people enough to write letters of complaint to the FCC here.
i09 conducted a detailed and interesting interview with George R.R. Martin concerning his A Song of Ice and Fire book series. Here is an excerpt:
"Q. Are there scenes in the Song of Ice and Fire series that you dreamed up 20 years ago, that you're finally writing? Moments you were excited to get to at last?
A. Yeah. I didn't know at first, in '91 — I didn't know quite what I had yet. I didn't even know whether it was a novel or a novella, or something, at first. So I sort of found that out. But by the summer of '91, you know, it just came to me out of nowhere, and I started writing it and following where it led. But by the end of that summer I knew I had a big series. Initially, I thought it was a trilogy, but it's grown beyond that. But the size is different, and I've introduced some other elements to the books, but it's still the same characters, the '91 characters.
Q. What was the thing that made you realize, in the middle of the first novel, that it had to be more than a trilogy?
A. It was quite at the end, it was by '95 that I realized it had to be more than a trilogy, because I had 1,500 pages of manuscript [and] I wasn't anywhere close to the end of the first book. So I said, "I know I can't get all this into three books here. I'm gonna have to break this first book into two books to get it all done." Which required a certain amount of restructuring, but I went back and I did that, I took out about 300 pages or so, and that became the beginning of the second book. And I moved things around.
Q. You've had these characters and places for 22 years, and that's a long time to live with a particular set of characters. So have you lost interest in any of those characters during that time?
A. You know, not really — because I haven't finished the story I want to tell. The story I set out to tell in 1991 is still not done. I think if I finally finish these seven books, or however many it takes, I will be tired of them. I will not necessarily be open to returning to tell more stories about the ones who survived [after the end]. There you run into a Sherlock Holmes, Reichenbach Falls sort of thing, where [the writer says], 'I'm sick of Sherlock Holmes, I never want to write any more stories about him.' But I haven't even [finished a single story.] As many books as it is, as many words as it is, it's still one story. One story that's not finished yet. I want to finish telling that story. And then I'll worry about that."
Read the rest of the interview with George R.R. Martin here. (Warning: Contains A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons spoilers.)
Image credit: Taken from A Song of Ice and Fire calendars, including artwork by Michael Komarck, Ted Nasmith, John Picacio, Marc Simonetti and Gary Gianni
Warning: The video has language that's NSF and, obviously, spoilers
Game of Thrones is returning on Sunday and just because Key & Peele are on vacation doesn't mean these two nerds were going to miss out on the chance to geek out over the show. Their valet characters are a perfect pair for summing up the first four seasons in the most ridiculous way they know how.
Via io9
Death comes to us all, and even Earth's mightiest heroes will one day come face to face with the Reaper, and their superheroic forms will be reduced to nothing but bones. Being an Avenger does nothing but shorten your lifespan, and expose your mind to messed up villainous acts you can't unsee, and yet they battle their lives away for the good of us all. They're not boneheads, simply heroes who can't stop fighting for justice until their flesh falls off their bones...
Bring the mortal truth about mighty heroes to your geeky wardrobe with this Disassembled t-shirt by Matt Parsons, because only a bonehead would let this design pass them by!
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Actress Jessica Alba doesn't have to worry about how she will make money if acting jobs cease to be offered to her. In 2011, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, which sells non-toxic cleaners and other items for use in the home. The product line is sold in Target and Whole Foods stores across the country. The Honest Company's sales exceeded $150 million in 2014.
Alba isn't the only movie star with a lucrative side business. Read about other celebrity ventures at Mental Floss.
A man, while participating in a conversation among others in the space, absentmindedly and sweetly gives the horse he's standing next to a quick kiss. The horse responds by immediately kissing him back, and his surprised reaction is precious. -Via Tastefully Offensive
Start by pulling one of the fries out without toppling the entire structure over. Or go ahead and collapse the skyscraper of breakfast love. There’s no way to lose! Josh Elkin of Epic Meal Time made this tower of fried goodness in a game that he calls “How many ways can I reinvent breakfast.”
Is it too late in the day for breakfast? Then try his model of the Taj Mahal made of pizza:
