That'll show you to attempt any life improvements! Man, this comic hits home. As a person who works at home and no longer has to run kids around, I tend to stay home. I also tend to not look in the mirror very often. Since I cut my hair very short a few months ago, there have been many times I've run to the store or something with a terrible case of bedhead that was not apparent until after the fact. It does make you want to curl up in a little ball and never leave the house again. This comic is from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.
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Take a trip back to the 1980s, when video rental stores were on every block, and Friday night meant picking up two or three movies for the weekend before someone else got them. Special effects designer Andrew Glazebrook, aka Morbid Decay, built a video rental store in miniature complete with videotape boxes smaller than postage stamps with accurate cover art. The store is definitely set in Britain, as you can tell by the "Mind the Step" sign and a few other details. See a bunch of enlargeable images of the miniature store, as well as a video, at io9. We don't see a mysterious door labeled "18 and over," but you can't have everything.
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Adult Swim UK gives us a compilation of some Sesame Street parodies that Robot Chicken has done over the years: The residents of Sesame Street deal with a flu epidemic, Oscar the Grouch makes a new friend, and Cookie Monster craves cookies. Contains NSFW language.
While Sesame Street brought children's TV much closer to real life than anything before it, it was never this realistic. And that's a good thing. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Something tells me these aren't real Rolexes. The utility meters on a very plain wall in a Salona Court alley in Long Beach, California, got an upgrade when New York artist Tom Bob was commissioned to make it more interesting. Now it's a classic street vendor in a trench coat! The city boasts quite a few street murals, which you can check out during their monthly art walks, or any time if you know where to find them. -via reddit
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In humans, there's a certain length that hair will grow before it reaches the end of its life cycle and falls out, to be replaced by new growth. That limit varies widely, and most people cut their hair before its terminal length is achieved, but there are always outliers. One such outlier was Hans Steininger, who was the mayor of the Austrian town Braunau am Inn in the 16th century. He had a beard that was over four and half feet long! Sadly, Steininger's pride and joy ended up being the cause of his death in 1567. But it wasn't the end of his beard. The town kept it when they buried their mayor.
The full-body illustration at the church shows Steininger’s beard bifurcated into two scraggly strands, stretching down past his feet. And tucked away in the local district museum is the town’s most hirsute artifact: the 450-year-old beard of Steininger.
After his death, Steininger was honored with the aforementioned epitaph, but that’s not all. Lest the years of work it must have taken for him to grow his beard be lost, the long length of facial hair was cut off and preserved separately, becoming an important town heirloom.
There's a good reason the town of Braunau am Inn wants to be known for Hans Steininger's beard. Read the story of the man killed by his own beard at Atlas Obscura.
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Who is your favorite movie villain? Or, more to the point, who do you think everyone else's favorite movie villain is? Empire magazine asked its readers to rank movie villains with their votes, and the results are in. There isn't one on this list that doesn't deserve to be there. In reading the list, it becomes clear that a truly great villain is more than evil -he (or she) is complicated and has some kind of charm that gives you the willies, because good and evil aren't as simple as we'd like to think. Incidentally, Alan Rickman famously played three of the most iconic villains in cinema, but only two made this top twenty list. Find out which ones are there in the list of The Greatest Villains Of All Time. -via BroBible
When you have a lot of room, why don't people just spread out over the countryside? Owning, or at least being surrounded by land, would seem to make sense in a civilization that relies on agriculture. Yet cities keep growing, as they have for thousands of years. The explanation of this seemingly dry subject is made intriguing by the fact that it's from Wendover Productions, which is always fascinating.
The simple answer is that people like to live near other people when it's possible, because there are a lot of benefits to living in groups, like jobs, services, and culture. The story of cities is really the story of agriculture, which is the story of civilization. The video goes into quite a bit more detail. -via Digg
A kindergarten class incubated a few eggs, and one day got to witness the miracle of life as a baby chick forced his way out of the egg and into the world during class time. The kids couldn't contain themselves! What happens on the day you are born? You get to sing Happy Birthday!
my moms kindergarten class watching a chick hatch and then singing happy birthday to it pic.twitter.com/8YYS6OdajH
— megfo (@meaghan_fogarty) January 26, 2018
Say it with me, now... "Awwww!" -via Metafilter
Watching stars up in the mountains away from light pollution is wonderful -while you're doing it. But then you start to realize that it was daylight when you climbed up that mountain. Now it's dark, and the path was kind of winding, wasn't it? Maybe we could just stay here until daylight, but it's now quite cool and the ground is starting to get damp. That night was a long time ago, and now I try to stay where there's a fair amount of light pollution, and even better, internet access. This is the newest comic from Randall Monroe at xkcd.
Don't let the title fool you. While this cartoon stars many kinds of ice cream treats, the world does not treat them well. The juxtaposition of retro-style animated ice cream cones with their cruel fates may be quite jarring.
Hey, if you were an ice cream cone that lived in the desert, you might lose your will to live, too. Steve Cutts (previously at Neatorama) brings us all the technicolor carnage. -via Everlasting Blort
Pangaea was a "supercontinent" of all the world's landmass before the shifting tectonic plates moved the continents around hundreds of millions of years ago. To visualize where those plates went, Italian digital artist Massimo Pietrobon created a map he calls Pangea Politica. The landmass is Pangaea, but the modern countries are labeled as we know them. Pietrobon said, in Italian,
The world is one.
Humanity is one
Long live the political Pangea!
While most of humanity could walk (or take a train) to each other in this map, some parts don't fit together the way you'd think. You might notice that India is nowhere near Asia. When the Indian landmass moved north and crashed into Asia, the force over time formed the Himalayan Mountains. -via Laughing Squid
Ben has a tortoiseshell cat named Baloo. Baloo loves Ben and wants to give him things, but Ben did not really appreciate the mice and birds that Baloo brought him. He would release the critters back outside.
Seeing how unappreciative Ben seemed to be about her hard-earned gifts, Baloo was perplexed.
“She always looked so confused and sad, which made me feel pretty bad,” Ben said.
But Baloo is a resourceful cat. She tried a whole new tactic, and brought Ben a large leaf. He loved that idea, and he played with the leaf, so she started bringing a new leaf in every morning- the biggest, prettiest leaf she could find. You can read the story of Baloo and her leaves in its entirety, and see plenty of pictures at The Dodo. -via Nag on the Lake
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Have you ever found yourself eating dessert and thought, "What this needs is more ketchup and mustard"? Me, neither. But if you're looking for something really different that you might serve as stunt, the Ketchup and Mustard Cake will do it. Honestly, if you want people to stop coming to your home just in time for dessert, it's worth a try. This is a real cake, with sugar, flour, butter, eggs, and spices, plus a half cup of ketchup. Well, okay, maybe it's like carrot cake, in that the spices overwhelm the vegetables. But then there's the frosting, made of butter, powdered sugar, and mustard. Really. Find the complete recipe at Shared, along with a video showing how it's made. -via Boing Boing
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy, known as the Slow Mo Guys, now have a regular series called The Super Slow Show. The first episode is about Hollywood stunts. In this segment from that show, we look at how movie characters run through a pane of glass. In slow motion, of course.
In slow motion, you get to see the details you miss in the movies, although it can be, shall we say, "unglamorous." That's what they said. Well, they're technically stunt men, but not Hollywood stunt men, after all. The entire first episode of The Super Slow Show is available in four parts (plus and intro) at YouTube. -via Tastefully Offensive
If someone is looking too hard for a deeper meaning or motivation that doesn't exist, we call it "overthinking" or "bean plating" or "conspiracy theory." In Argentina, you might hear "You're looking for the fifth leg of the cat." It's different, but it makes plenty of sense when you think about it. Every culture has idioms or old sayings that convey a common truth, but can be surprising to outsiders. Eloisa Bielsa, along with Povilas Daknys and the creative team at NeoMam Studios took 12 such idioms from all over the world and illustrated them in pictograms for Expedia. Check out the tomato glasses, singing apples, and cooked carrots (and what they mean) here.
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