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This Cute Little French Bulldog Is Terrified Of His Ball

Ask any kid or little dog and they'll tell you- toys can be super scary, especially when they make noise when you're not expecting it, pop up or come rolling after you like a giant boulder.

The little French Bulldog in this video had such a hysterical reaction to a rubber ball bouncing after him he earned himself a nickname- Indiana Jones Dog. It must suck to be that tiny...

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-Via Honest to Paws


The Sucker Way

When you work your tail off all day just to put food on your table you come to realize something- only a sucker works harder instead of smarter, because your job isn't paying you enough to become a worker drone.

So instead of slaving away like a sucker follow the advice presented in this Port Sherry comic and make it rain with less pain!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


A Human-Like Robot

Humans are so worried about being replaced by robots they often overlook the good parts of artificial intelligence, the human-like parts that don't involve stealing jobs or killing all humans.

Because, as this Safely Endangered comic shows, robots who think more like humans end up acting more like humans, and the day they discover they never have to leave their house again is the day they cease to be a threat.

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


Interesting Facts About Alligator Snapping Turtles

People are surprised to learn snapping turtles can be really dangerous when encountered in the wild, thinking they have the same temperament as a tortoise or sea turtle, but mess with an alligator snapping turtle and you're bound to get bit.

Alligator snapping turtles are the most dangerous type, which should be obvious since they sport spiky warrior shells and wicked beaks made to tear through flesh, but you'll only have to tangle with them if you meet one in the water:

5. Believe it or not, these turtles rarely travel on land at all. The females will briefly venture out of the water to lay eggs, but males typically spend their entire lives beneath the water’s surface. Both genders can hold their breath for nearly an hour at a time!

7. These guys are masters at camouflaging themselves, which is good for them—but bad for just about everything else nearby. Their shells are often covered in algae, which makes them look like rocks in the muddy waters they inhabit. Their pupils are also surrounded by excess skin so they’re hard to spot.

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Read 10 Facts About Alligator Snapping Turtles here


Over 5,000 Stickers Were Used In The Making Of The Shins' "Half A Million" Music Video

Creating hand-drawn 2D animation is a laborious process that involves drawing and filming hundreds, if not thousands, of frames to bring the characters to life, but why draw every frame when you can use photos?

Directors LAMAR+NIK used photos printed on stickers to create the unique look of The Shin's music video "Half A Million", 5,566 photo stickers in fact, and the tactile layering effect of the stacked stickers gives the video a hypnotic visual appeal.

THE SHINS “HALF A MILLION” [DIR. LAMAR+NIK] from LAMAR+NIK on Vimeo.

-Via JazJaz


Hip Smirnoff Vodka Ads From The 1960s

Back before there were fancy vodka brands on the market making people pay hundreds of dollars a bottle just to impress others there was Smirnoff- the vodka that leaves you breathless.

Smirnoff has been the world's best-selling vodka for decades, and part of that success is due to their hip and edgy ad campaigns that make their brand feel very modern, like these ads from the 1960s starring some seriously famous faces.

The jazzy and stylish Smirnoff ads of the 60s starred people like Groucho Marx, Eartha Kitt, Woody Allen, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Johnny Carson, just to name a few.

They even got the famous poet and playwright Langston Hughes to pose for a Smirnoff ad in 1959, so their brand not only looked hip but progressive as well.

See more Hip Smirnoff Vodka Ads from the 60s at Dangerous Minds


Products That Will Leave You Wondering "Who Would Buy Such A Thing?"

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Manufacturers around the world are busy making millions of crappy products every day, and whether they're crappy because of the quality or because they serve no purpose they're all bound for the landfill.

But some items are crappy for both of those reasons and yet may avoid ending up in the landfill- because they're so odd they belong in the Museum of WTF.

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Where else will we be able to find Weener Kleener soap, a shoulder bag made out of men's briefs or an inflatable Cat In A Can one hundred years from now?

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So if you should come across an item so stupid, silly or otherwise inane that it belongs in the Museum of WTF hang on to it, because the Museum will be needing donations!

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See 11 WTF Products That'll Leave You Asking "Why?" here (NSFW-ish)


How Glass Top Pool Tables Work

Transparent pool tables look just plain slick both literally and figuratively, but as nice as they look the old school pool shark in me screams "there's no way that functions like felt!" every time I see one.

But as I discovered after watching this explainer video by Elite Innovations Pty Ltd, makers of fine transparent pool tables, they work just like cloth covered tables thanks to their 'Vitrik' playing surface:

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-Via Boing Boing


This Custom Built 'Surf Seeker' Volkswagen Microbus Looks Like A Real Life Cartoon Car

I used to read a magazine called CARtoons that was full of hot rod art reminiscent of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's high octane illustrations from the 60s, and I've always wondered what those cars would look like in real life.

After watching this episode of Dennis Gage's My Classic Car I realized a CARtoons car come to life would look something like this custom 'Surf Seeker' Volkswagen Microbus designed and hand built by Ron Berry.

Not only does it have an incredibly smooth body and an appearance that suggests it's always inching forward on its 1965 Minibus suspension- it also sports a 2175 air cooled super charged engine which gives it around 200 horsepower.

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-Via Laughing Squid


Nabisco's X-Rated Toy Scandal Of 1971

Nabisco has maintained a reputation as a wholesome and family friendly company for over a century, and in that time they've had very little to worry about in terms of public backlash or scandal.

But there was one time when Nabisco inadvertently bought themselves a scandal- when they purchased the Aurora Company in 1971, makers of horror movie model kits the National Organization for Women felt were obscene:

That May, Nabisco had attempted to diversify by purchasing Aurora Company, the West Hempstead, New York model kit maker best known for their plastic kits of Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man, and other horror film icons. The cheap plastic toys came in pieces and could be glued together and painted.

Unknown to Nabisco, Aurora had recently branched out and begun offering entire model kit dioramas. Instead of a single figure, consumers could buy detailed “sets” for their monsters to interact with. There was a guillotine, a razor-sharp pendulum, and a laboratory; a female protagonist, referred to in the copy as “the Victim,” was scantily-clad and ready to be dismembered, beheaded, or trapped in a spiked cage. Kids could also opt to have Vampirella, the top-heavy villain licensed from Warren Publishing, operate the winch and pulley while her plastic captive was shackled to a table.

Each kit also contained a comic, which instructed builders on how to assemble the torture scenes for maximum enjoyment. A narrator named Dr. Deadly seemed to opine on the appeal of the Victim once she was fully assembled. “Now that you’ve gotten her all together, I think I like the other way. In pieces … yesssss.”

In addition to Fig Newtons, Nabisco realized it had also been peddling tiny torture racks.

Read Nabisco's X-Rated Toy Scandal Of 1971 at Mental Floss


Portraits Of The Vibrant Residents Of A Single East Berlin Street From The 1980s

An interesting thing happens when like-minded people move in to the same building or on to the same street and form a symbiotic microcosm- the street or building comes alive with human energy.

This human energy explosion happened on Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 60s, it was happening all over the place in NYC in the 70s, and it happened on a single street in East Berlin during the 80s.

Hufelandstrasse was an island of culture in the Soviet-controlled city, and photographer Harf Zimmermann immediately fell in love with the street and its residents when he moved there in 1981:  

“Everyone seemed to feel connected to the place and responsible for it, to be acting in tacit consensus and always working to save the diversity of their island from the sea of gray for as long as possible,” says Harf Zimmermann.

From the Steidl Books description of Zimmermann's book Hufelandstrasse, 1055 Berlin:

For over a year, Zimmermann photographed almost daily on the street with his large-format camera, patiently asking shop-owners and residents if he could take their picture. Hufelandstrasse was then home to a cross-section of citizens of the German Democratic Republic, as well as many family-run stores and workshops—from bakeries and cobblers, to a pet shop and even an atelier for repairing women’s stockings—an uncanny concentration of private business which had otherwise been fazed out by the communist state.

See more Beautiful 1980s Portraits Capture The Vibrant Residents Of A Single East Berlin Street here


Illustrations Of Scary Real-Life Sea Monsters

According to reputable scientific sources there are no sea monsters in the sea, there are just a bunch of oversized squid, sharks, orca and the like that occasionally eat people and attack boats.

But those scientists seem to be hiding something, because these incredibly lifelike illustrations by Vladimir Stankovic are full of scary looking creatures that actually live under the sea, like the toothy Wolf Eel.

It's not hard to understand why land lubbers who've never seen such strange creatures would see the critters on Vladimir's prints as monsters, but these prints were created not to terrify but rather to educate:

Illustrator and graphic designer Vladimir Stankovic was commissioned to create a series of illustrations of some of the most bizarre and remarkable sea creatures for the Earth Touch / Smithsonian Channel documentary CRAZY MONSTER: SEA CREATURES.  The illustrations were later animated and used an an interlude before the introduction of each species.

-Via JazJaz


Meet 12-Year-Old Tattoo Artist Ezrah "The Shark" Dormon

You have to be at least eighteen years old to get a tattoo in most places, although in some areas you can be under 18 if you have your parents' permission, but you're never too young to think tattoos look cool.

And even though 12-year-old Ezrah Dormon from Panama City isn't old enough to get a tattoo he has already zapped some ink onto at least 20 different people- and his skills are growing stronger by the day.

Nicknamed "Tiburon" (shark), Ezrah has become the talk of the town while working as an apprentice at his mentor Ali Garcia's tattoo parlor Honolulu, where he helps Ali finish up tats on willing victims.

And even though he's just doing fills for now it's only a matter of time before Tiburon starts tattooing his own artwork on people, although Ezrah says he's going to wait a while before he gets a tattoo of his own.

Here he is practicing his line work on his dad's forearm:

Read more about Ezrah Dormon at Daily Mail


The Pessimist Inside You

You know that dark and broody little pessimist who lives inside you? He or she may seem like a real jerk but they exist to serve a vital function- to save us from ourselves.

More specifically to save us from the optimist inside us who sees joy in every sunrise and hope in every sunset, that guy or gal's sunny disposition is extremely annoying!

But don't worry because, as this comic from Jake Likes Onions shows, the pessimist inside you will take care of that little sunny side problem for you, although you may need to do some mopping...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


Map Shows Where You Would End Up If You Dug A Hole Through The Earth

We've always known that silly old myth about digging a hole through the Earth straight to China couldn't possibly be true, especially considering all the Morlocks, dinosaurs and Lava Men living in the center of the Earth.

But if you're determined to dig your way through the world anyway you should first find out where you're going to end up once the digging is done, and here's a hint- you won't end up in China unless you live in South America. 

So are you ready to figure out where you'd end up if you dug a hole straight through the Earth? Then consult this Interactive Antipodes Map created by Romanian IT company Aniotek Solutions and see which antipodal city you'd wind up in.

Unfortunately for me there is no antipodal city for San Diego, so I'd end up in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar, good thing I wasn't planning on digging an impossibly long hole this weekend...

-Via Second Nexus


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