Ezequiel López took the audio of the trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road and edited in clips from the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
If you recall the original Fury Road trailer, the selected clips work perfectly. -via Metafilter
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When it’s all said and done, Donald Trump will be best remembered not for his million dollar business dealing, his TV career, or his presidential run, but for his distinctive and unfathomable hair. People find plenty of humor in it, and now cats can, too. The Instagram account Trump Your Cat invites people to share a picture of their cat wearing Trump hair. How? It’s easy!
1.Brush your cat
2.Form the hair you brushed into a toupee
3.Place toupee on cat
4.Share & tag @trumpyourcat, DM, or #trumpyourcat >^.~.^<
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Um, I have a feeling that cat has borrowed a toupee. When your cat gets posted, Trump Your Cat will add a pertinent (or not) quote from the Donald himself. There are plenty more cats to see, and the odd horse and guinea pig as well, at Trump Your Cat. -via Uproxx
John Green says he’s a huge map nerd. He’s not alone; many highly intelligent people are fascinated by maps. In this episode of the mental_floss List Show, we learn about map history, the link between Amerigo Vespucci and Botticelli, map projections, disappearing islands, and what the title of his book Paper Towns means.
Poor Pluto. First he has to be out there so far away from everyone else in the solar system, then he gets downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006, and now this. Artist BennuBird illustrated how Pluto must feel about the New Horizons flyby. We broke his little heart! See more sad Pluto art at Buzzfeed.
Juno is one of three Beluga whales who live at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. He learned a long time ago that it’s a real hoot to scare the kids who come up to the glass to look at him. But then again, he probably goes up to the glass to get a good look at those strange creatures on the other side. Juno can be friendly at times, and doesn’t mind to have a picture taken with you. -via reddit
Rhik Samadder has a column in The Guardian called Inspect a Gadget. Today he looks at an appliance called the Egg Master. It’s a vertical grill that extrudes cooked egg from the top. If you think that’s horrifying, wait until you read the review.
“Spray non-stick agent into container”, the box advises, which definitely gets the tummy rumbling. As instructed, I crack two whole eggs into the hot tunnel, trying to ignore the gurgling sound from within. It’s impossible to see what’s going on – but it smells bad. I squint into the dark opening. A bulging yellow sac peers back at me. Minutes pass; the smell does not. Then, without warning, a flaccid, spongy log half jumps from the machine, writhing like an alien parasite in search of a host body. It’s horrifying, like a scene from The Lair of the White Worm.
Samadder has plenty more to say about the Egg Master, with pictures and video to prove he really used it. Do not read while eating or drinking. -via Metafilter
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One reason dinosaurs capture our imagination is that they were so much bigger than anything we can imagine. But mammals have been large enough at times to shake the ground, too. Which was the biggest land mammal ever? For a long time, scientists knew it was Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino that could reach 26 feet in length. But maybe ancient elephants got that big, too. It all depends on how you measure them. Fossils of extinct animals are hard to measure, but Spanish paleontologist Asier Larramendi gives us an idea of how huge many species of ancient elephants were.
Larramendi selected elephants from various times in their 60 million year record. The very early Eritherium azzouzorum, for example, may have weighed 11-13 pounds and been a little more than half a foot high at the shoulder. From such a small start, elephants eventually attained truly enormous sizes. Larramendi calculates the largest Deinotherium weighed 13 tons and stood over 13 feet high at the shoulder. Others were bigger still. The mastodon Mammut borsoni, Larramendi calculates, would have weighed over 15 tons and been almost 13 and a half feet tall at the shoulder, and, based on some scrappy material, Larramendi estimates that the elephant Palaeoloxodon namadicus would have reached 24 tons and an imposing 16 feet at the shoulder.
Those examples make Jumbo and Tantor look downright puny in comparison. Read about Larramendi’s research at Laelaps. -via Digg
This domino fall contains more than 34,000 dominoes, but more importantly, it tells us about Doctor Who as it goes! Watch the TARDIS fall apart. See a dalek fall apart. there’s also images of the various characters, but keep your eye out for the Weeping Angel -or don’t, if you value your safety!
This project is from jojodrummer96. See more of his domino creations at his website. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
“I don't have any other aspirations in politics or anything of that nature.”- Elvis, 1972
Elvis Presley was too smart to alienate half his fans by publicly pledging his allegiance to one of America's political parties, though his later views on hippies and illegal drugs put him more toward the right-hand side of the political spectrum, at least in his later years. (The "illegal drug" hatred of the king has often been pointed to as being great hypocrisy- and rightfully so. As we all know, at the time of his death and for almost a decade prior, Elvis was a walking pharmacy.)
Elvis's aides have confirmed that his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, impressed on Elvis the fact that there was no upside to making his political views known. Although Elvis would publicly proclaim little interest in politics, this is disputed.
Larry Geller, Elvis's hairdresser in 1960's, says: “He had no interest in politics, which is interesting considering how pro-America he was.” But, on the other hand, good friend Sonny West states: “Elvis was very private about his political views, but was passionate about them in private with those of us and friends he could trust.”
When he first began mesmerizing audiences across the world, in the Soviet Union the press held Elvis up as what was wrong with youth in America.
As a publicity stunt prior to the premiere of Elvis's first film Love Me Tender in 1956, Colonel Parker had “Elvis for President" buttons handed out during the unveiling of a 40-foot high Elvis cutout outside the Times Square Paramount Theater in New York.
In the run-up to the 1956 election, Elvis declared he was going to vote for the democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson- the only time that he publicly declared a personal political affiliation.
The stuff kids eat in school cafeterias is healthy, right? Pizza, tacos, chicken nuggets, lovingly microwaved every day. Nick Offerman gives us a tour of the pizza farm where those delicious meals originate. This video is an invitation to look at school lunches a little closer through the eyes of the American Heart Association. -via Buzzfeed
As you probably know, the New Horizons probe completed its flyby of Pluto today, and pictures are coming in to NASA as we speak. Randall Munroe at xkcd is way ahead of them, and has identified some of the more important features of the former planet already.
But the newest images are coming in now, and we excitedly await the latest from New Horizons. You can follow along with live reports at NASA TV.
Bryan and Caryn Canatella are expecting a little girl, and the nursery is stocked. Bryan takes us on the grand tour, in the style of the TV show MTV Cribs.
Those who are familiar with the show find it spot-on, and those of us who don’t watch the show find it funny on its own merits. “… while she’s sitting’ on swans. SWANS!” Baby Cecilia has the perfect place to come home to, including parents with a sense of humor. -via Buzzfeed
This ad from IKEA shows a troop of monkeys (who actually live at the Jaguar Rescue Centre) and some other creatures having great fun in a modern kitchen magically plopped into the rain forest. Just wait until they find out where the bananas are stored!
Or maybe they were just upset that anyone would store bananas in the refrigerator. Although this is live action in Costa Rica, it reminds me of a certain other fictional sequence set in Africa. -via the Presurfer
The Great Escape didn’t go quite as planned. Heh. This is a testament to the magic of one judicious edit. If you watch the original video, you’ll see that everything turned out all right in the end. -via reddit
Jon Stewart is retiring from The Daily Show after 16 years. The tributes are flying fast on the show and on the internet, and one of the best is from Eclectic Method. They edited clips to make Stewart tell the story in his own words, to the tune of the show’s them song. Meanwhile, if you want to get all the good out of Stewart’s reign, Comedy Central has video of his entire run streaming now. -via Digg
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