It looks stunning!
Luxury fashion brand Burberry has launched a pop-up store in Jeju Island, South Korea. The brand added more beauty to the tourist destination with their scenic mirror landscape that promotes their outerwear collection. According to the company, the huge scenic pop-up store aims to blur the lines between “nature and technology, the indoors and outdoors, the real and the imagined.”
Image credit: Burberry via HYPEBEAST
Plankton is a catch-all name for the tiny lifeforms that inhabit our water. They come in a ridiculous variety of sizes and shapes, but mainly two types: plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton). Within those categories are an entire encyclopedia of different plankton species, each with their own ecological niche. Plankton drift along with the current, mainly reproducing and waiting to be eaten. As they are the bottom of the food chain, they are essential to all life on earth. They also excrete oxygen as a waste product and perform other chemical processes that help to keep ocean waters healthy for other living things.
Dutch filmmaker Jan van IJken recorded different types of plankton through a microscope and assembled this gorgeous compilation of their forms. Some look like inanimate objects, while others resemble critters we might recognize if they were bigger. A few of them may as well be aliens from a science fiction fantasy. -via Geeks Are Sexy
While the basics of America's Thanksgiving feast are widely known and eaten across the country: turkey, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie, there are regional variations in the menu that you might never have heard of. Or maybe your family has a tradition of serving something that you would be surprised to find doesn't exist nationwide. Then again, there might even be a local variation in your own area that you aren't familiar with!
Does your family serve Frog Eye Salad, Wild Rice Casserole, Sopapilla Cheesecake, or Funeral Potatoes for Thanksgiving? Find out where these are common and why at Atlas Obscura, and if they pique your curiosity or hunger, follow the links to a recipe for each. You'll have to Google the recipe for persimmon bread, I'm afraid.
Note: The list does not include cranberry pickle pie.
(Image credit: Flickr user SK)
You wouldn't go online to hire someone to commit murder, would you? Of course not. First, it's wrong, immoral, and illegal. Second, it's dumb. You would know right off that a site called RentAHitman is a joke. Apparently not everyone is so internet-savvy. A woman in Michigan pled guilty earlier this month to soliciting the murder of her ex-husband through the site! Wendy Wein was contacted by a police officer posing as a hitman from the service and received all the evidence he needed, including a $200 deposit. She is expected to be sentenced to nine years in prison.
Bob Innes launched RentAHitman in 2005 as a joke and a website test. He ignored it for some years, but eventually went back to clean it out and found hundreds of messages. A lot of them were trying to enlist his "services." Innes took his concerns to police, who contacted other law enforcement agencies all over the world to check out the messages. This was easy to do, since earnest potential clients filled out a form with their own information plus personal information on the person(s) they wished to exterminate.
“I don’t get it,” Bob Innes, the owner of the joke site, told the Washington Post in a recent interview. “People are just stupid.”
Read about the many people who were caught trying to hire a hitman through the website at Gizmodo. And when you visit RentAHitman, do not add your own joke by filling out the inquiry form.
(Image: RentAHitman)
🦏 A white rhino battles a Cape buffalo in the Kariega Game Reserve in South Africa in this thrilling head-to-head battle. Who'll win? Despite being far outweighed by the rhino, the buffalo stood its ground and didn't give an inch!
🥧 This Thanksgiving, give these two unusual pies a try: the cinnamon roll pie and the Reese's Peanut Butter Pie. Yum!
📺 The Simpsons have been on the air, like, forever, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that they've found a 2,200-year-old statue that looks just like Lisa Simpson.
📚 In space, no one can hear you shush. Here's a real life job opening that'll require you to prove your geek cred: science fiction librarian.
🐶 A family in Peru got a ruff surprise when they found out that their pet dog turned out to be a fox.
⚛️ Vitruvian Genius: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." (Love that? View more Science T-shirts)
More neat posts over at: Supa Fluffy, Homes & Hues, Pictojam, Pop Culturista and Laughosaurus.
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Many communities stage a Christmas parade to kick off the holiday season (see: Macy's), but there's an inherent problem with having one right after Thanksgiving. Everyone's too tired and bloated to march, due to eating all that turkey, dressing, side dishes and pumpkin pie!
Glen Arbor, Michigan, took that idea and ran with it. The town's Chamber of Commerce encourages everyone to come out and do their Christmas shopping on Black Friday wearing pajamas. Their parade begins in the morning, and features beds rolling down the street! One of the parade's organizers says it's hysterical. You can put wheels on a bed, but they often lose them before they get to the end of the parade, and end up being carried. So much for resting up after Thanksgiving. But it's an annual traditional that Glen Arbor is proud of.
Last year's parade was canceled due to the pandemic, but it's back on for 2021, beginning at 9AM Friday. -via Fark
We sure love our fried potatoes. Which kind do you like best? There are french fries, curly fries, Tater Tots, potato wedges, and more, and you have to admit they are different, even though they are all fried potatoes. The Fry Universe gives us an elaborate 3D visualization of how they are different, which is a matter of surface area vs. volume. It's all in the frying, meaning how much of this food is potato, and how much is fried. Sure, we like both parts, but the frying is magic. Still, I am a bit disappointed they didn't include hash browns or latkes. -via Metafilter
Marvel Studios dipped its toe into the world of martial arts films this year with Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings. Screen Junkies are here to point out how this movie uses all the usual tropes from Marvel superhero movies plus all the tropes you expect from a martial arts film (plus father issues), and yet it works better than you'd ever expect. After all, those film elements became ubiquitous because audiences liked them. While there's plenty to say, it's obvious that our favorite film critics really liked Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings. Even if they are really bracelets.
Henry Temmermans has his priorities straight.
The tabloid Daily Star tells us about this Dutch driver who noticed that another driver on the highway had passed out while still at the wheel. Her car continued to roll forward, more or less straight. It had done some damage, but she probably would have been seriously hurt if the car hit a solid object head-on.
So Temmermans guided his own car directly in front of the wayward Volkswagen and slowed until it hit him at a fairly low rate of comparative speed. He brought both vehicles to a halt. Once they stopped, he immediately ran to check on the woman.
-via Born in Space
This isn’t some children’s game. These aren’t friends killing time at a slumber party. These fighters are playing for keeps. They want to win. That’s why you can expect the upcoming Pillow Fight Championship pay-per-view event in January to be intense.
Steve Williams, the CEO and founder of the PFC organization, tells Reuters that most of his competitors come from combat sports and will act accordingly. They are using specialized pillows that won’t hurt their opponents, but nonetheless will be swung with skill and ferocity.
Embedded below is a video of one such fight. The action starts at the 0:41 mark.
I don't know the rules of PFC, but I could see how it could work with a point sparring system.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Fight PFC
Let us not doubt that the gentleman in this video was, in his best Samuel L. Jackson voice, expressing his exasperation at the number of snakes on the road. Who he is and where he is remain a mystery, but not his reckless courage.
Some people on the Internet are saying that this man picked up hundreds of snakes to toss them off the road. I think that dozens is a more likely count, although a number higher than zero is too many snakes to pick up without absolute certainty that they are nonvenomous.
Why does the do this? Let me speculate:
-via Dave Barry
City of cable cars: the ups and downs of life with Wellington’s private incline lifts https://t.co/ZFIzRRnGDd
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 19, 2021
Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, is built on a rocky coastline, so there's not a lot of flat land available for real estate development. Many luxury homes are built on steep cliffsides, which makes them difficult to access. To help, some of these wealthy owners have constructed private incline cable cars. The Guardian reports that the city of 215,000 people has an impressive 152 such private lifts.
There used to be more such cable cars--300, in fact. Then safety regulations required demolishing many of them. For some homeowners who kept their cable cars, they're indispensible because their homes are otherwise inaccessible.
-via Messy Nessy Chic
On the fourth date with my now-wife, we reached the point in the evening in which it was time for me to give my impression of the braying of a donkey.
What was the result? Well, let's just say that there was a fifth date after that.
I accomplished this despite not being a vocal artist, let alone one as masterfully skilled as Rudi Rok. This Finnish actor and director can deliver the goods on so many animals in precise detail. His thirsty dog even has the subtle clicking sound of a dog in need of water. His physical acting skills greatly contribute to these impressions.
-via Laughing Squid
Justin Lunsford served in the military as a paratrooper and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2012. He went back to the United States after an IED took his leg. In order to cope with PTSD, Warrior Canine Connections helped him meet Gabe, a two-year-old service dog. “He helps me with one thing to the next. I can use him as a stable surface to lean on, as I get to and from the ground,” Justin said. “If I fall, he’ll come up running next to me and I can use him to push off of to get up off the ground.”
The two became the best of friends and companions, to the point that Lunsford picked Gabe as the best man at his wedding in 2015. The dog was even the ringbearer, too!
Image credit: WCCs Gabe II via Facebook
David Hole found a heavy, reddish rock during his trip to Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, in 2015. Thinking that there was a high chance that the rock could have a gold nugget inside, he tried to break open the rock with every tool at his disposal, from a rock saw, to an angle grinder, to a drill, and even acid. Hole failed to open the mysterious rock.
Instead of throwing it away, he kept it. When the opportunity presented itself for him to take the rock to experts, Hole was informed that the rock he held on to all these years was a meteorite! "It had this sculpted, dimpled look to it," Melbourne museum geologist Dermot Henry told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Learn more about it here!
Image credit: Museums Victoria
