Why have just an old regular turkey when you can have a Cthulhu turkey? Yep, people make this kind of monstrosity, apparently. The Cthulhu turkey is “ an octopus stuffed inside a turkey, sitting on top of crab legs, and (optionally) garnished with bacon strips.”
Sad and Useless has taken the liberty to compile the variations of this abominable “dish.” See the pictures over at the site.
Well, at least it looks edible when cooked, but what are your thoughts about this one?
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. This photo of Josefina sitting down beside her grandmother, who’s holding her baby sister, is a testament to that popular adage. Josefina might have described herself in this photo as “sitting quietly”, but we know that she's not quiet deep inside because of her facial expression.
What made you jealous of your sibling when you were a child?
This adorable animal moment was brought to us by Peter Lambie and Gretchen Cooper as they fished off the Gulf coast of Florida. They lured the shark by tossing it fish, then petted the beast when it began chomping on the boat engine. NBC 8 News, which has a video of the incident, reports the encounter lasted a long time:
The group, which included Lambie, Cooper and two others, Captain Tyler Levesque and Erika Almond of “Girls that Fish,” played with the shark for an hour. The captain even got close enough to pet the animal after feeding it some fish.
-via Dave Barry | Photo: Gretchen Cooper, Captain Tyler Levesque, Peter Lambie, Erika Almond
Two waddles of rockhopper penguins in the Falkland Islands meet each other. After a brief conversation, they go their separate ways. But one inattentive penguin loses his waddle until a buddy gets his attention.
We all have a friend like that in our groups. And if you can't think of a friend who is like that, then I have bad news for you.
I've always been fascinated with figuring out how old a map is by how the places on it are labeled. I'm not the only one. Borders and names change over the years, and it takes at least a bit of knowledge of world history to accurately date a map, or a world globe in this case. Redditor hi_everyone0 posted this image as a flat earth joke, and commenters immediately went to work figuring out how old the globe is. We only get to see one side, but we can narrow it down with history.
1. Before 1990, because the USSR is labeled. 2. After 1972 because Ceylon became Sri Lanka. 3. After 1980, when Vanuatu was founded. 4. Commenters posited that it was before 1979, when Peking became Beijing, but also pointed out that it took about ten years for the rest of the world to start using the name Beijing for the city. This kind of lag affects most maps in one way or another.
Indiana Jones defied seven deadly traps to reach this treasure! But afterward, a giant ball of yarn chased him back out of the temple. This is the latest from OwlKitty, the cat who manages to crash every movie ever made. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Representative Justin Humphrey would like for the people of his state to have the opportunity to lawfully hunt sasquatches. Or to be more precise, his bill states:
The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall promulgate rules establishing a big foot hunting season. The Commission shall set annual season dates and create any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees.
This language seems dangerously vague, as one might interpret "big foot" to refer to creatures other than the cryptid and his kin. The Associated Press reports that Humphrey's project would more likely promote tourism in his district:
Rep. Justin Humphrey’s district includes the heavily forested Ouachita Mountains in southeast Oklahoma, where a Bigfoot festival is held each year near the Arkansas border. He says issuing a state hunting license and tag could help boost tourism.
Before you start contemplating caliber options, be aware that Humphrey claims that one may only hunt Bigfoot by trapping:
Humphrey says his bill would only allow trapping and that he also hopes to secure $25,000 to be offered as a bounty.
Do you want to adopt the New York look? How about the Paris look? No, I don't mean looking as fashionable as the residents of those cities. Do you want to look like the cities themselves? Think of it as urban cosplay.
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh made this opportunity possible. At the recent Paris Fashion Week exhibition, Abloh debuted puffer jackets that show the skylines of Paris and New York City. Dezeen reports that Abloh chose specific buildings of architectural significance:
Abloh studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was head of the department of architecture in the 1940s and 50s and built the Crown Hall.
The emerald green marble set used for the show recalls the material used by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the Barcelona Pavilion, and several Barcelona chairs, which were designed by the pair, can be seen in the show.
"The building's material constructions and combinations informed aspects of the set created for the Fall-Winter 2021 presentation. 'Mies is my other Michael Jordan'," wrote Abloh in the show notes.
Digital artist scadarts (also known as mandal0re) uses Photoshop to put Star Wars characters into classic artworks. His latest series uses the classical Japanese style to portray Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, and Leia Organa. Click to the right in the image above to see each work on its own. But that's just his latest series. Continue reading to see more.
This is a skateboard. Hannah Jensen, an artist in New Zealand, covered it with 57 layers of paint. Then, drawing upon her background in printmaking, cut away selected layers until she was left with this eye-popping image of a kingfisher on the hunt. In an interview for Museum Week, Jensen succinctly described her technique as "textural and topographical."
Nathan Shipley, a graphic and digital artist in San Francisco, rendered famous paintings and cartoon characters as photographic images with the assistance of an artificial intelligence. You can find more examples of this project and an interview with him at Bored Panda. He explains that the AI has its own unique view of its subjects:
it’s fascinating to explore how an AI model built on a particular dataset with a particular framework can 'see' the world and then transform images. The AI 'knows' only what it has already seen and filters the world through this lens. Each little tweak to the dataset, the training parameters, the model, and the input imagery all have the possibility to change the output. This is a space to explore how artificial neural networks interpret the world in a way that can be similar to our own minds. I’m not saying that an image I created is what Mona Lisa actually looked like, but it is how the machine sees her based on this particular arrangement of variables. That, to me, is fascinating.
David Friedman, who will always be known as the guy who coined the word "keming," had a little fun with the very commonness of his name by editing a supercut of it from movies and TV. Send it to someone you know, maybe David. -via Laughing Squid
The RMS Aquitania carried both mail and passengers from Manchester, England, to New York City. When it arrived in New York on December 11, 1920, there was quite a scare when workers unloaded the intercontinental mail.
When the Aquitania arrived in New York that Saturday morning, all of the mail bags were loaded onto the pier. A workman noticed a slight movement in the bag and began yelling. “Help! Murder! A bomb!” All the men on the pier ran for their lives in complete panic.
After the frightened men calmed down, one of the workers approached the mail sack and loaded it onto a truck. The package was rushed to New York’s General Post Office on 8th Avenue at 33rd Street.
After opening the bag, the employees watched in amazement as the kitten jumped out and staggered across the room. He made his way to a radiator, where he stood shivering and chewing on a piece of paper that he had carried from the mail sack.
You'll be glad to know the story of the kitten had a happy ending, although his exact origin was never determined. The story made the papers, and may have overshadowed the bigger story of the Aquitania's return trip to England. Somehow, mysteriously, the president of the Sinn Fein Irish Republic Éamon De Valera managed to travel from America to Ireland, supposedly on the Aquitania without being arrested on its arrival in England. Read both the stories of the stowaway cat and the rumored human stowaway at The Hatching Cat. -via Strange Company
Senator Bernie Sanders made quite an impression at the presidential inauguration on Wednesday, dressed in trendy yet functional Vermont fashion, wearing distinctive mittens made by Jen Ellis. Sanders became an instant internet meme. And now we have an application that puts the senator in your front yard -or anywhere you want to put him, as long as it's on Google Maps.
Now I have a picture of Bernie sitting in my front yard. The generator, created by software engineer Nick Sawhney, can be found here. -via Laughing Squid
PS: Not content with photo manipulation, our friend Ochre Jelly went ahead and made a LEGO version!
This sheer delight is a lemon meringue pie by James Dempsey, the resident master chef at the Blackmoor Dining Room in Leeds, UK. How does he make this marvel? Dempsey is keeping his recipe a secret, but he explained to the tabloid Metro that:
‘The most difficult part of the process is to make sure that the pie pastry shell is completely sealed to ensure it holds the lemon meringue pie filling. Failing to do this will be disastrous.’
Check out Dempsey's Instagram page, which is filled with culinary wonders to delight both the eyes and the mouth.
