OfficeMax brought you Elf Yourself for Christmas last year. This year, they’ve expanded the application to include your friends! You can upload pictures of up to four people and turn them all into elves. And they’ve also introduced Scrooge Yourself, for those who want to send a “Bah! Humbug!” message. Link to Elf Yourself. Link to Scrooge Yourself. -via Ursi’s Blog
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OfficeMax brought you Elf Yourself for Christmas last year. This year, they’ve expanded the application to include your friends! You can upload pictures of up to four people and turn them all into elves. And they’ve also introduced Scrooge Yourself, for those who want to send a “Bah! Humbug!” message. Link to Elf Yourself. Link to Scrooge Yourself. -via Ursi’s Blog
The Moringa Tree, known by many names including the Miracle Tree, is edible, nutritious, and has medicinal properties. The seeds can even purify water! No wonder it’s now cultivated in Third World countries. http://peacecorps.mtu.edu/resources/studentprojects/moringa.htm -via the Presurfer
(image credit: Anthony Simons)
(image credit: Anthony Simons)
The butter-substitute product I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter was a funny enough name, but as the product caught on, knockoffs followed. In order to piggyback on the original product’s fame, these other spreads have to have a name that is somewhar similar. Some turned out just plain silly, like Unbelievable This is Not Butter. See more at Required Eating. http://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/2007/11/its-not-butterdeal-with-it.html -via Grow-A-Brain
Tarantulas, grasshoppers, and scorpions are just the beginning of insects you can eat. Why do you think they call them “mealworms”? Link -via Ursi’s Blog
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These two cats seem to be having a very important conversation. Lucky for us, YouTube user klaatu42 has provided the English version.
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You remember tribbles, of course, but you’ll have fun seeing the other creatures you may or may not recall from the original Star Trek TV series. Wired has a gallery of the 10 cheesiest creatures from Star Trek. To be fair, the show ran from 1966-68, and they didn’t have the special effects budget that sci-fi series have today. Link
Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 4th this year. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making your own Mini-LED Menorah! Link
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I can imagine the dialogue for this encounter:
Crawfish: Stay back! I am big, scary, and dangerous!
Cat: Oh, hai! Do u has a flavor?
Dog: Zzzz.
Warning: You may be whistling the Imperial March for the rest of the day. -via Arbroath
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Sung by Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, of the Neurosciences Education Institute, with apologies to Gilbert and Sulivan. -via OmniBrain
Santa Claus made his entrance at a Texas mall over the weekend. Since theree was no chimney, Santa rappelled down the side of the building... almost. He became stuck about 30 feet from the ground.
Have no fear, Santa was rescued by an emergency crew. Link (with video) -via Fark
"And what happened was his beard got caught in his rope-thing," one eyewitness said. "So then he couldn't get out, so then somebody threw him some scissors, and he started cutting his beard off, but then he was still stuck."
Have no fear, Santa was rescued by an emergency crew. Link (with video) -via Fark
In the latest installment of cute interspecies adoption, Summer the rabbit has become bonded with a litter of abandoned kittens. Veterinary nurse Melanie Humble took the kittens home to foster, expecting her cat Ellie to be interested, but five-month-old Summer took to the kittens instead, letting them snuggle with and climb all over her. Link -via Unique Daily
In this geography game, click as close to the prompted location as you can, but remember, speed counts! I scored 353,403 points through ten levels, not high enough to play the last two levels. Link -via Militant Playtpus
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In the latest Chinese viral video advertising series from Nokia, the story goes that hip hop originated in the 60s in a farming village in Inner Mongolia. The master of the art is a 60-year-old who goes by the name MC Farmer. -via Metafilter
Using time-lapse photography, Journal Sentinel photographer Tom Lynn offers a day in the life of a game at Lambeau Field. Tom began by stationing a Canon EOS Mark II digital camera, mounted with a 16mm lens, atop the southwest corner of the stadium, encapsulating the entire bowl of the stadium with the field at its core. Powered by an external battery pack, the camera automatically fired every 20 seconds, shooting from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., capturing the stadium as it filled with fans, as the game unfolded, and as the stadium emptied. The entire process captured 1,194 total images, which have been compressed into this two-minute video.
Link -via Cynical-C
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