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You're a space beetle careening toward a confrontation with a futuristic giant head. That's the premise of Thumper, an upcoming music game from Brian Gibson, bassist of tooth-rattling classic Lightning Bolt, and Seoul-based programmer Mark Flury. Read the rest

Google Maps Pacman time! Just find an area with enough roads and click the pacman button next to satellite view.

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Apparently, you don’t have to go to a galaxy far, far away to see Ewoks. In the Tian Shan Mountains of China, researchers have spotted the elusive Ili Pika, an adorable creature which hasn’t been seen in two decades. Discovered back in 1983 by conservationist Li Weidong, he named the rare mammal after his hometown, and not after Pikachu.

The so-called ‘magic bunny’ measures about eight inches long and is a distant relative of the rabbit. It has eluded research teams for decades, sneaking in and out of cliffs, avoiding getting photographed. Until now.

Li, on another one of his Pika spotting expeditions, was able to snap the photos above. According to him, the species numbered around 2,900 at the time of their discovery. Now, their numbers are down to less than a thousand, most likely due to human activity and climate change.

‘I discovered the species, and I watched as it became endangered. If it becomes extinct in front of me, I’ll feel so guilty’, said Li. He hopes that the Ili Pika’s mountain ranges would soon be declared a nature reserve to help their species survive and thrive again.

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Watch out Grumpy Cat, there’s a new feline in town. Atchoum is a nine-month-old cat from Quebec, Canada who suffers from hypertrichosis, a condition in which he experiences excessive hair growth. Basically, bad hair day every day for his entire life. His disheveled hair and those bright yellow eyes make him look like a mad scientist with a death stare.

Villainous appearance aside, his owner says Atchoum is a lovable cat who enjoys taking naps, baths, and reaping the souls of a thousand babies (Ok, maybe I lied about the thing about the babies).

You can stare death straight in the eyes see more of Atchoum on Facebook and Instagram, where he has already amassed more than 13,000 adoring followers and evil cat worshipers.

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Stream the first taste of Cannibal Ox‘s new album.

On March 3, the duo will finally release the follow-up to 2001′s legendary The Cold Vein. The 19-track album is titled Blade of the Ronin, mostly produced by Bill Cosmic, and features MF Doom, U-God, Elzhi and the Artifacts to feature.

Vast Aire and Vordul Mega reunited back in 2012, launching a Kickstarter to help them finish the album and eventually holding fans over with 2013′s Gotham EP [via Pitchfork]

Folks, I think I'm going to have to make a definitive call on this video and say that it is the cutest baby animal video I have ever seen in my life.

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Miniature (adult) zebus

Miniature Zebus!

Generally speaking, mushrooms are fascinating organisms. As part of the fungi family, they are neither plant nor animal and have an incredible capacity for growth. As evidenced in these stop motion gifs, we witness the mushroom cap or fruit, sprouting out of the ground in various shapes and sizes. The fruit is made up of 92% water allowing for its rapid maturity and part of the fungi you would normally throw onto pizza and salad. It’s this top section, which makes for an interesting visual specimen, as seen here in phallic, veiled and bumpy shapes, credited to nature’s grand design. The part you don’t see, called the root or mycelium, can remain dormant and underground for years. These are the real heroes, acting as nature’s garbage disposals, devouring all that is dead and decaying. Some fungi lore to speak of, includes the toadstool known for its red color, and white dotted spores. Those who grew up playing Nintendo, will remember these colorful blobs as part of the landscape in Super Mario Bros. and incarnate to “Toad” a figure in the game. Psilocybin or “magic mushrooms” are the rebels. In existence since prehistoric times, the fungi first appeared during the mesolithic period as evidenced on rock paintings taken from archaeological finds. Known for its pleasant, hallucinatory effects, studies have shown psilocybin can not only give you a nice high but help with OCD and clinical depression. (via boredpanda) 

 

 

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Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Photo © Janus van den Eijnden

Romania-based architecture collective visualSKIN arrived at the Amsterdam Light Festival with a splash this year, installing a three-dimensional projection of a 17-century ship against a backdrop of water. Titled ‘Ghost Ship,‘ the installation makes use of two intersecting images projected onto perpendicular curtains of water that can be viewed from multiple angles. The piece is in reference to a Dutch East India Company ship, The Amsterdam, that was wrecked in a storm during its maiden voyage to Batavia in 1749.

In a fortunate coincidence, and unbeknownst to visualSKIN beforehand, Ghost Ship also rests on the former site of a large water fountain designed by sculptor Albert P. Termote that was removed more than a decade ago. You can see more views of the installation right here. (via Designboom)

These are a refreshing antidote to the Metropolitan London Police's poster campaign trumpeting their 2014 achievements. Read the rest

Ever feel homesick for a place you're not even from? I never visited Jerusalem, but these drawings feel like old memories of somewhere I haven't been yet. The artist is Vincent Mah�, a Parisian who spent a year in Jerusalem and brought it back with him in a sketchbook. His sketches include the big touristy sites everyone knows, but also the empty streetsides and tops of buildings that you don't normally see in photos. There's something captivating about the simple lines�-the way he creates shadows with them, the way the drawing seamlessly becomes less detailed the further away from the focus point.

When it comes to restaurants, for me, the ambiance and decor is just as important as the food and I particularly enjoy it when a restaurant feeds me some serious home décor inspiration wherever I look in between mouthfuls. But this sock-knocking restaurant I stumbled upon really gives you something to chew on. Hueso restaurant is a reason to make it to Mexico’s Guadalajara city if you aren’t there already. In the quirky design district, a culinary cabinet of curiosities like you’ve never seen before awaits from Mexican architect Diaz Morales. Hueso, means bone– because they’re absolutely everywhere, 10,000 of them to be precise, mounted on the walls, displayed on the tables and stacked inside little nooks, all cast from aluminium– animal lovers take a breathe.

So for those of us who can’t make a booking for Friday night, let’s take an ogle around…

The Hueso website.

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NEW YORK—Saying that the maneuver was 100 percent effective if administered correctly, police captain Matthew Carlson demonstrated the proper technique for subduing a grand jury to a group of younger officers Thursday.

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While her humans were trying to watch a TV show, Pebble the 20-year-old rescued Moluccan Cockatoo decided she wanted to be the center of attention and went into full-blown crazy mode.

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Behold the incredible cuteness of this newborn pangolin (aka scaly anteater) at the Taipei Zoo. Video below. (more…)

Plenty of people use Soda Streams to turn regular water into sparkling water, so Noah thought he was sitting on a brilliant idea when he decided to do the same thing with red wine. He filled up his machine with a nice Nouveau and gave the Soda Stream a few long presses. Unfortunately the brilliant idea didn't pan out and the wine exploded all over Noah, the kitchen, and the ceiling.


Bonus: Here's a compilation of Soda Stream Fails

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Tattoos, historically, have been on the bodies of sailors and prisoners. It’s only in relatively recent years that they’ve entered mainstream society and lost some of their negative social stigma. Arkady Bronnikov collected photographs of tattooed Russian prisoners between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s. The amount he obtained was massive – 918 images worth –  thanks to his position in the government. As a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for over 30 years, part of Bronnikov’s duties involved visiting correctional institutions of the Ural and Siberia regions. He interviewed, gathered information, and photographed convicts and their tattoos, which gradually helped him build this comprehensive archive.

The images were later acquired by FUEL, a London-based design group, in 2013. Some of the photographs and official police papers authored by Bronnikov from the Soviet period will be published by FUEL in two volumes, the first of which was just released. Now, they are part of a current exhibition titled FUEL present: Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files at Grimaldi Gavin in London until November 22 of this year.

When these photos were taken, Bronnikov wasn’t concerned with composition or style. They were meant to act as a record and served a purely practical purpose. The gallery explains, “Their bodies display an unofficial history, told not just through tattoos, but also in scars and missing digits. Closer inspection only confirms our inability to comprehend the unimaginable lives of this previously unacknowledged caste.”

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