This is a video of a boy named Gunner. He’s already got two little sisters and his parents have another baby on the way. In the vid, the gender is revealed. SPOILER: it’s a girl. DOUBLE SPOILER: he is not thrilled about it. In fact, that’s kind of an understatement — he is pissed. Annnnnd […]
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Thanks to the well preserved specimen found last summer, Russian scientists now claim they have enough viable woolly mammoth DNA to clone one of the beasts. Obviously, I will be the first person to ride it. And probably the last. Watch us jump this volcano!

"The data we are about to receive will give us a high chance to clone the mammoth," Radik Khayrullin, of the Russian Association of Medical Anthropologists, told the Siberian Times. Researchers at Russia's North-Eastern Federal University discovered the remains-- mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow -- in the northeastern province of Yakutia. During the autopsy, they were surprised to find an incredibly well preserved corpse -- better, in fact, than "a body of a human buried for six months," another scientist told the Times.

Wow, a corpse better preserved than the "body of a human buried for six months". That really evokes some sweet mental imagery, doesn't it? And right before lunch! Lucky us. You know, it's a shame nobody really cares about cloning woolly mammoths. It's true -- what's the first thing you think when somebody mentions cloning woolly mammoths? "But what about dinosaurs?" Exactly. Thanks to Mon (the day?!), who agrees we should all clone ourselves so we can go to work and make money but stay home and play video games at the same time. I'M IN.

We were fascinated when we first came across the Ooho, an edible water "bottle" conceived by three students to reduce plastic waste, and decided to make one of our own. Check out our DIY video and DO try this at home!

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Vancouver, BC | On Sunday, April 6th, House of Bottleneck invites you to celebrate the Season 4 premiere of Game Of Thrones and hereby notifies you that we we will be screening the episodes live every Sunday henceforth. Expect custom cocktails and beer specials, food fit for a mad king, and no cover charge. Park your steeds and swords and join us for goblets and medieval feasting! Doors open at 6pm and thehow starts at 9pm. Learn more about Bottleneck after the jump…

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870 Granville Street | Vancouver, BC
Telephone: 604-739-4540
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Chef: Hugh Carbery
Promotions Manager: Juliana Moore
General Manager: Jason Coleman

About The Bottleneck

Located below the historic Commodore Ballroom at 870 Granville Street, you’ll find a beautifully restored modern tavern. The interior is rustic and full of woodsy motifs. Boasting excellent service, great music and miles of booze-filled bottles, the experience is warm and wonderful on every level. The lunch, dinner and late-night menus are West Coast seasonal, featuring size-specific plates prepared in-house with fresh, organic, locally grown ingredients. Open Monday & Tuesday from 11:30am – 6pm, Wednesday to Friday 11:30pm - 2pm, and Saturday 6pm – 2am.

Events are key to The Bottleneck’s community spirit. We feature music by local and international artists, weekly vinyl nights, film screenings, after-parties and all sorts of creative programming.

Press & Accolades

Dinner with Fred Penner at The Bottleneck | Vancouver Is Awesome

Bottleneck offers chilled out place to eat under the Commodore Ballroom | Georgia Straight

Inside Bottleneck Bar & Restaurant | Inside Vancouver

Pull up a stool at The Bottlebeck | Ion Magazine

Scientists have proposed a novel idea to prevent the collapse of fish stocks due to overfishing: ban fishing in international waters and turn the open ocean into a worldwide reserve. The proposal introduced in the journal PLoS Biology may seem extreme, but scientists say such drastic measures may be necessary if we want to ensure future generations have the same access to seafood. Unless we act now, the journal Science reports that overfishing may permanently take seafood off the menu by 2048.

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Finally, some decent Happy Birthday and wedding themed ass-wiping paper! This is the $250/roll gold foil embossed toilet paper produced by German manufacturer Tissue Design (previously: $1.3-million a roll 22-karat gold toilet paper -- this is the pauper's version). It's not an April Fools' joke, it's a real product. That way you can have gold embossed Happy Birthday toilet paper at your next party. And I will steal it. I don't care if everybody else is leaving skid marks in their underwear, I'm putting that shit on eBay. Thanks to Dino, who surprisingly wrote in English instead of RAWRs.

This is a video of Duncan the boxer running on the beach. Duncan was born with severely deformed back legs, so his adoptive family had them amputated. And now he has learned to run with just his front two legs. Cool, but I'd still want some back wheels if I was him. "Vroom vroom, bitches!" -- Duncan the Boxer (with wheels)

For those who said I was an animal abuser for removing his severely deformed legs to give him a chance, for those who sent me hate mail and doubted this boy, suggesting we should just euthanize him - you are wrong. Thank goodness this baby boy landed in our loving home!

Regardless of how you feel about his adoptive family's decision, after watching that video of him on the beach there is no doubt in my mind that he could outrun you. "He's cheating." Wow -- accusing a two-legged dog of cheating? It's like you're always on the lookout for ways to be even more of an @$$hole. Keep going for the full video.

Note: Worthwhile larger version HERE. This is a composite shot created by Redditor and photographer kolnidur featuring eight hours of planes taking off on an LAX runway. How you can stand around for eight hours taking pictures of planes taking off at LAX and not get picked up by the airport po-po as a potential terrorist is beyond me. The TSA actually lifts and separates my balls whenever I fly out of there. Thanks to Morgan, who only takes pictures of the stranger who fell asleep on his shoulder during the flight.

Baby Suiting is the newest internet craze! All you need is a baby, a suit, and a camera. The result is pretty hilarious. Babies running businesses, can you imagine? Kind of like real life — big babies running businesses, right Donald Trump? He looks like a giant infant and acts like one too. “You’re fired!” […]
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I’m so sorry for not sharing a recipe with you last week, I was moving house and my life was all packed up in boxes so I didn’t get to do much cooking! I’m so happily settled now though and will be cooking more than ever as I have the best kitchen, which is inspiring me so much. My favourite thing about my new flat are my kitchen shelves, which are filled with my jar collection containing all my favourite foods. I spent months looking for the perfect shelves and collecting all the jars and I’m just so in love with them all that I had to share the photos with you in this post! While I was moving I ate a lot of easy, speedy food that I could make in big batches so that I’d always have something awesome to snack on. Of course there was the usual hummus and guacamole, lots of dates, amazing smoothies and sweet potato brownies but I also spiced it up a bit with lots of baba ganoush. About a year ago I went through a phase of making baba ganoush all the time and I’d rather forgotten about it until my amazing flatmate whizzed up an aubergine dip recently and I remember how obsessed I was with creamy, roasted aubergine. It just tastes so incredible, especially when mixed with a little tahini, lemon juice and cumin – I then add sun-dried tomatoes as they really bring the flavour to a whole new level, making it even more wonderfully rich and delicious. It tastes amazing in a rainbow bowl with grilled peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, rocket and pomegranates; or as a dip for your crackers, sweet potato wedges or crudités; used as a sauce for your pasta; spread thickly on some sueprfood bread; stirred into some brown rice with a little miso or eaten straight from the bowl with a spoon!

Makes one bowl:

- 2 aubergines

- 12 sun-dried tomatoes

- 1 tablespoon of tahini

- 1/2 a lemon

- 1/2 a teaspoon of cumin

- salt and pepper

Pre-heat the oven to 180C, then pierce the aubergines with a knife – this gives them some breathing room and stops them from exploding in your oven! Then allow them to bake for about thirty minutes, until the skin is getting crispy and the inside is amazingly soft.

Once the aubergines have cooked, slice the green end off them and then place them in your food processor with all the remaining ingredients and blend until smooth and creamy – I love the skin of the aubergine as I think it makes the texture nicer, so I always add it but you don’t have to.

Spring is finally here, which means fair-weather cyclists and picnickers are popping up in droves at parks across the nation. In celebration of craft and the great outdoors, Lumbürr Co combines the best of the two worlds into one with the Lumbürr Bicycle. The raw-finish steel bicycle is equipped with a wooden crate for your picnic goodies and games, a carrier for a wool blanket, and even hand-carved antler handlebars for that extra custom finish.

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Spicy shrimp with garlic, zucchini noodles, tomatoes and a squeeze of lemon juice – I just inhaled this EASY low-carb, gluten-free, paleo-friendly dish for lunch which took less than 20 minutes to make, start to finish and it was DELICIOUS!

Today it's finally starting to feel like Spring! Before you know it, summer will be here and you know what that means.... bathing suit season! I've been diligent about working out a few times a week, but you know what they say – great abs start in the kitchen and this so true so now that winter is over, I've been cutting back on my carbs (not eliminating, don't worry!) and really making my calories count.

In this dish, rather than using pasta, I swapped it for zucchini noodles. My Paderno Spiral Vegetable Slicer is my all time FAVORITE cooking gadget. It's the easiest way to make zucchini noodles, sweet potato spirals, carrot ribbons and more! Prior to owning one, I used my mandolin but it's so much quicker and easier (and safer) with this fun gadget – you NEED one!!



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Last year we heard about a man that had 75 percent of his skull replaced with a 3D-printed replica. Now Wired UK reports a woman from the Netherlands has had the entire top section of her skull replaced with a transparent, plastic implant. Neurosurgeons from the University Medical Centre Utrecht performed the extreme procedure to save the woman from a rare chronic bone disorder, which increased the thickness of her cranium from 1.5 centimeters to five centimeters and put her at risk of permanent brain damage.

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This is a side-by-side comparison of a 31-year old Hugh Jackman in X-Men (2000) vs a 44-year old Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine (2013). Clearly somebody has been hitting the gym app in the Danger Room. Or steroids. I'm kidding, when I close my eyes and imagine Hugh's penis and balls, it's obvious he's not juicing. "Just how often do you do that?" All the time -- I'm doing it right now even. Thanks to carey, who informed me she has a Wolverine poster above her bed and now I'm wishing I did too.

I LOVE fried rice, and often make my own fried rice at home with brown rice which is delicious. But sometimes when I want to cut down on my carbs, I opt for cauliflower rice.

I posted this Cilantro Lime Cauliflower "Rice" a while back, and it was a huge hit. So I decided to play around with that recipe and make this Asian version to go with the Orange Chicken I posted yesterday, and my husband (who detests cauliflower) was pretty amazed how the meal turned out. The portions are generous and you get a serving or two of vegetables into your diet.


If you like this, you may also like:

Brown Fried Rice
Asian Edamame Fried Rice
Pineapple Shrimp Fried Rice
Spicy Shrimp Fried Rice


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This is the arm of 18-year old Norwegian fast food fan Stian Ytterdahl. He got a McDonald's receipt tattooed on it. Why? Because who doesn't love McFlurries? I still can't believe it. I mean, I love fast food as much as the next guy who's given up on eating right or working out, but a tattoo of a McDonald's receipt? It's genius!

Some friends who wanted to punish Stian Ytterdahl for being too active with the ladies (uh huh, sure) gave him a choice between a Barbie on his ass or the receipt on his arm. Ytterdahl resigned himself to his fate (and probably wished he hadn't added those 4 extra toppings to his burger). Sabelink Tattoo said it was the strangest tattoo they'd ever done, and asked Ytterdahl if he'd get their receipt on his other arm--for free, of course. He agreed, and the next session is scheduled for Monday. McDonald's Norway says the tattoo isn't a publicity stunt, but they think it's terrific. "We're obviously talking about a loyal customer," said a spokeswoman.

Wait -- he agreed to get the tattoo as punishment from his friends for being too successful with the ladies? That makes zero sense. Besides, if anything it's going to make him MORE successful. I heard Norwegian girls love the Mickey D. Man, I remember when I got my first tattoo a friend asked me what I thought it would look like when I was 60. You know what I told him? It won't be worth digging up my grave to find out. THEN I POKED HIS F***ING EYES OUT. Thanks to Clarissa, who did not explain it all but did mention trying Taco Bell's new breakfast menu today. Jealous!

This is the dancing witch robot that artist Jordan Wolfson and Spectral Motion created. Apparently it responds (read: dances) to music and follows you around with its eyes. Obviously, everybody involved with the project should be jailed and that jail should be shot into the sun. Not even Sander Cohen was this twisted. SPEAKING OF -- the second part of the Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea DLC came out today. I'm downloading it right now, and I'll be playing it as soon as I finish work. Oh who am I kidding, I'm already three hours deep. SPOILER: It's badass. Keep going for a full video of the abomination in action.

This is the poorly placed billboard advertising the upcoming season of Game of Thrones. I mean, it's true, it's just sad. Hopefully none of the old folks venture outside and see it. You stay in the cafeteria and slurp Jell-O, I'll take care of this. *climbs to top of building, spraypaints over raven with a dancing penis* Now that's more like it. Thanks to terrance and Aegon, who love the smell of old folks homes. Okay that's f***ing weird.

This is the surreal elephant LEGOmaniac Jin Kei made to resemble one from Salvador Dali's iconic Los Elefantes (picture of the original painting after the jump). Pretty cool, right? I'd proudly display that in my apartment. Or on my desk at work. I mean, if I had a desk. I don't though so I'm writing with my laptop on top of the water cooler. It's not ideal, but I do get to hear all the latest office gossip. Like, hmmm -- let me think. Ooh -- did you hear the GW shit his pants at work twice this week?! It's like I'm invisible to them. :( Keep going for a shot of Dali's original.

A Belgian high school math teacher has taken to keeping his class quiet by threatening to write the names of everyone killed in Game of Thrones on the board if anybody is unruly. Whatever, man. *tries to shoot spit-wad, accidentally swallows*

Asking his students which of them watched the fantasy drama, the majority raised their hands, to which the teacher responded: "Well, I've read all the books. If there is too much noise, I will write the names of the dead on the board." Reported in the Belgian newspaper nieuwsblad.be, the teacher continued: "They [the dead] are enough to fill the whole year and I can even describe how they die."

Interesting idea, but all it takes is one student who has also read all the books, then there's no such thing as a spoiler for them. They can talk all they want! Sure they might not be the most popular kid in class afterwards, but I was never that popular in high school and I turned out fine. You know which crowd I used to eat lunch with? The Rollerbladers. JOKING, I was never that bad. The BMX bikes. "You mean bikers?" No, just their bikes. Thanks to Nadia, who threatens her students with being ignorant for the rest of their lives if they don't pay attention. Man, mine just used to smack me with a ruler.

The Chinese government is going to start selling bottled and canned air to tourists (previously: this businessman doing it) starting June 20th in an attempt to address its growing air pollution problem. I'm not sure that's really addressing the underlying problem. Complimentary gas masks -- now that's the ticket.

The bottles of air will to be manufactured as part of a tourism scheme by authorities in the southwestern Guizhou province. The move comes after the country's biggest online travel agency and insurance firms joined forces to offer policies to tourists whose trips are visually impaired by the pollution.

Addressing your pollution problem by bottling fresh air and selling it to tourists? That doesn't really make me want to visit. That would be like me inviting you over to my apartment but selling you a HAZMAT suit at the door. My apartment is really awesome, I promise, just...put this on first. You're gonna have a great time. Thanks to Thaylor H, who is going to start bottling moon air and start selling it to rich people back on earth. "There is no air on the moon." WHAT?!

Some lucky Israeli residents of the Negev Desert’s Wadi Zim region got to see something truly incredible as a dramatic video posted to YouTube captured the rebirth of the River Zin. Within seconds, the dry riverbed, also known as nahal in Hebrew and wadi in Arabic, is overwhelmed by gushing water as the dozens of spectators and one excited dog watch in awe.

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This is mom and yoga instructor Laura Kasperzak doing some poses with her teensy daughter. As you can see, it’s pretty insanely adorable. Plus impressive, because when I was that little girl’s age, I was too busy bouncing off the walls to sit still and do some yoga. But times have changed! Now as a [...]
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Mowing the lawn is usually considered a chore, but with a new award-winning device, it could become your new creative outlet. Recently named a 2014 Red Dot Design Award winner, the ‘Grass Printer‘ is an automatic electric lawn mower that makes it possible to manicure your yard without getting up from your seat. We’ve seen intelligent lawn mowers before – but the Grass Printer has an onboard touchscreen that makes it possible to mow graphics into your lawn based on a customized image.

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P0rnBurger is a website chronicling a man's journey to cook one magnificent burger a week, and take a picture of it. Then eat it. Eventually, it will make its way to the bottom of a toilet bowl, but the website doesn't document that part of the adventure. And I'm okay with that, especially considering most of these burgers look like they really put the sore in assholer. Keep giong for a couple more selections. Then come over for a St. Patty's BBQ tonight.

Have you heard of Edith Macefield? This old lady turned down a million dollar offer to sell her home to make way for a shopping mall in Seattle, Washington. Without Edith’s land, the developer had to alter the building’s plan so that it would meander around the small, two-story house. At 84 years old, Edith become a folk hero. And if you think her house looks familiar, it’s probably because it looks amazingly similar to (and could be the inspiration for) the famous flying house in Pixar’s animated film UP.

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This is why facebook is the devil.

I had banana bread.

I wanted chocolate.

A day doesn’t go by where I don’t desire cheese.

Frankly, my banana bread was a bit stale. Which is a feat in itself because that means we didn’t eat an entire loaf in 34 seconds.

Why aren’t loaf pans made much larger? Like, instead of 9×5 inches, it should probably be 2×4 feet. THEN no one would have the problem of eating the entire loaf of banana bread the same day it’s made.

I know it isn’t just me.

Anyhoo. Even I thought that banana bread grilled cheese was a bit out there. I asked on facebook & twitter if I should do such a horrid thing. And you thought that I should.

I relish in the fact that you are weird too. We SO like all the same things.

I’m such a grilled cheese freak. Grill all the bread, all the cheese. I want it 24/7. I’m even teaching a class on it in two weeks!

Um, also, how cute are my metallic rose goldy mugs? My friend Laura sent me one of them and I, of course, had to buy one from Starbucks during the holiday season and they pretty much make my day. Pretty things.

Life is so much better when things are pretty.

If you love sweets and cheeses, you’ll die. Melty brie, dark chocolate. I used a banana bread recipe that you can find in my cookbook later this year, but I have lots of others here. Perhaps we should try the bacon one…

Since banana bread is soft yet dense, the entire slice doesn’t crisp up like regular crusty bread. You need a thick slice, after all, for this to work. You can make the sandwich like a regular old grilled cheese OR you can butter both sides, fry both sides, then stick the cheese and chocolate in the middle and keep it over low heat until the insides melt.

The insides melt. Now that sounds delicious. Hmmpf.

Except it so is.

Yep. I did that.

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These are the chocolate chip shot glasses designed by New York City pastry chef Dominique Ansel. If his name sounds familiar, it's because Dominique is also responsible for the super-popular cronut. If his name didn't sound familiar at all, welcome to the club.

Figuring that "if everyone was drinking milk with cookies, you might as well make a dessert that allows them both to be combined," Ansel has created a chocolate chip cookie recipe that "stayed crispy and moist in parts" even as it held milk.

Admittedly, I do love milk and cookies. Although I just float a bunch of cookies in a glass of milk until they sink, then drink all the milk and scrape the cookies off the bottom with a spoon. PRO-STYLE. I can also drink a gallon of milk in under an hour and have the video to prove it, I just can't post it because I did it naked in the bathtub. Thanks to William S, Julietta and Acon, who prefer their milk and cookies the old fashioned way: left out on the hearth for Santa.

Bloom is a cashmere wool blanket designed by Bianca Cheng Costanzo. Inspired by origami, this unique piece is soft yet effortlessly holds its shape without any filling. The blankets are also easy to care for and can be spot cleaned, dry cleaned, or hand-washed in cold water and laid flat to dry. On February 28, 2014, Bianca launched Bloom’s pre-sale campaign and it was an overnight success. Want a Bloom of your own? There are still 15 more days to get one through Kickstarter!

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