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I’ve been in Mexico City for 3 days and the dude holding the paper on the left is the best piece of art I have ever seen.

This is what happens when adjacent countries have their patriotic holidays so close together on the calendar. Just like the Trojan Horse, this gift of a Canada Day cake came with a surprise inside! Canadian recipient and redditor TruthGoliath posted the deception. Of course, it was all in fun, and you can make a cake like this with directions from Betty Crocker. The lovely frosting job is not included with the recipe. Link

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In 1966, US Army doctor Sam Axelrad amputated the arm of Nguyen Quang Hung, a captured North Vietnamese soldier. Mr. Hung then spent several months recovering and working for the Americans:

"He probably thought we were going to put him in some prisoner-of-war camp," Axelrad said. "Surely he was totally surprised when we just took care of him."

As for the arm, Axelrad said his medic colleagues boiled off the flesh, reconstructed the arm bones and gave them to him. It was hardly common practice, but he said it was a reminder of a good deed performed.

Dr. Axelrad rediscovered the arm among his possessions in 2011. He recently returned to Vietnam to give Mr. Hung his arm back:

Hung was surprised to be reunited with his lost limb, to say the least.

"I can't believe that an American doctor took my infected arm, got rid of the flesh, dried it, took it home and kept it for more than 40 years," he said by telephone last week from his home. "I don't think it's the kind of keepsake that most people would want to own. But I look forward to seeing him again and getting my arm bones back."

Hung served Axelrad and his family lunch, shared memories and reflected on all the time that had passed. Axelrad said he was pleased to learn where and how Hung had been living for so many years, and to meet his children and grandchildren.

"I'm so happy that he was able to make a life for himself," Axelrad said.

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As we mark the ten-year anniversary of the Tommy Wiseau movie The Room, how is lead actress Juliette Danielle coping with the fact that her first starring role was in a movie celebrated as the worst ever? Danielle was twenty years old when she got the part of Lisa, and had no idea how terrible the film was until she saw the premiere. For years, she avoided any part of it, even when the movie became a cult classic with monthly midnight showings -where people jeer at the screen.  

At first, Juliette was stung by the press attention, particularly when it focused on her physical appearance. “On the Rifftrax"—that's the downloadable accompanying heckling track, led by former "Mystery Science Theater" host Mike Nelson—"they called me the ‘bloated corpse of Britney Spears,'" she said. “It’s funny when it’s somebody else but God, I was just in no way prepared for that.” A scene in which Juliette appears to have a bulging vein in her neck also received a great deal of attention, with fans yelling, “Kill it before it dies!” at the screen.

Eventually, Juliette set up a Facebook profile. There she wasn't heckled. Fans started posting photos on her wall of themselves dressed as Lisa; they told her how much joy the film brought them, how much fun they had at screenings; they quoted The Room to her and Juliette, to her surprise, found herself quoting it right back. She started watching cult movies like Troll 2 and Birdemic, and found that they gave her a renewed appreciation of The Room. She started attending Q&As after screenings. She started to entertain the notion of returning to acting.

“For a while I expected it to go away and I think that just would’ve made me a really unhappy person, waiting until I’m 75-years-old for this thing to go away,” Juliette said. “So I found that when I embraced it, it certainly made me a lot happier and more secure about the whole thing.”

Danielle has recently returned to acting, and is also trying out standup comedy. Read about Danielle's experience in making The Room and coming to grips with her notoriety at The Awl. Link -via Digg

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This mustacioed puppy has been an internet celebrity ever since his adorable mug made its way onto Reddit a few month's ago. More recently, the little chum's owner came forward with a more recent photo. Even if you're one of the many people who think ear cropping is inhumane and/or stupid looking (count me amongst those against the practice), there's no denying that the fantastic mustache on this pooch has kept him looking quite dapper.

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Are you competing in the Iron Butt? Riding across the continent? If so, then the Japanese toilet company Toto has the perfect trike for you. The toilet itself is just decorative, but the engine runs on real manure:

The Neo, a product of three years of research, development and design, is based on a 250cc trike, with a built-in toilet for a seat. The rider does not contribute to the fuel supply of purified and compressed livestock waste. So for now, this model’s bio-gas comes from the Shika-oi, in Hokkaido. As an engineer explained, “The waste and household water are converted to methane gas by fermenting, and the methane gas is converted to bio-gas by purifying.” Only the bio-gas ends up in the bike, so there’s no manure on-board. 

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Materials: Lykta

Description: For this hack I used 30 cassette tapes and tie wraps and the Lykta lamp.


It's not so hard to make a atmospheric lamp like this.


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I’ve been fucking this up for years.

Now this is a nifty optical illusion trick: You'd think that the photo above is stitched together in Photoshop, but it's actually just one shot. Photographer Bela Borsodi carefully positioned objects of different colors to create this nifty optical illusion for an album cover by the band VLP: Link - via Daily Mail

See how it was done:

Here's the behind the scenes clip:

In 1902-04, the magazine Vanity Fair (unrelated to the current magazine of the same name) was a precursor to the "girly magazines" that followed. One of the raciest things they could publish was women wearing pants, meaning you could actually see that they had two legs! They were called "bifurcated girls," as if they were split in two. Bifurcated girls were a regular feature of the magazine, and in 1903 it published a special issue featuring a full set of pictures of women in men's clothing (sometimes accompanied by women in skirts, outrageously showing their petticoats). See more at the Public Domain Review. Link -via Everlasting Blort

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Jaime Lee Curtis and Katherine Heigel had an intense lunch today

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Jaxson Denno was so excited when he learned that Iron Man was nearby and would be glad to meet him. Alas, he had been deceived. Only Iron Man actor Robert Downey, Jr. was available:

Only problem: Downey, in the Western Massachusetts towns of Sunderland and Shelburne Falls to shoot his latest, The Judge, was not wearing his Iron Man outfit.

That did not please Jaxson, as this photo shows.

Not to worry, though – Downey, 48, soon brought a smile to the boy's face. 

"He was fine as soon as he talked to him," Jaxson's mother, Heather Denno, told PEOPLE, explaining that her young son "was so confused because I kept telling him it was Iron Man and he knew it wasn't. Well, not Iron Man in the suit."

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(Photo: Heather Denno)

Fuzzles will soon be ready for the joust, thanks to this armor on sale by eBay member mightys0x. This is a steel helmet and set of chain mail armor. Mightys0x writes:

Is your pet guinea pig tired of wandering around the house unarmored and vulnerable? Do they get picked on by other guinea pigs? Has your guinea pig ever wanted to go with you to a Renaissance Faire but had nothing to wear?

Note that the condition is listed as "used." This armor must have already seen combat. Did the previous user survive?

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Redditor adrianahasaids showed her daughter ice cream. She reacted appropriately.

I've got good news for you, kid. No matter how old you get, ice cream is always this awesome.

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This is one of those fantastic ideas that was born not out of a concerted effort to have fantastic ideas, but through sheer dumb luck and lack of planning. If necessity is the mother of inventions, then poorly-stocked pantries are the uncle of new recipes. Or something like that.

The idea of using potato chips in place of slow-cooked potatoes in Spanish tortilla—the thick, moist, omelet-like dish of potatoes, onions, eggs, and olive oil that get passed out with glasses of wine or stuffed into sandwiches all over Spain—is not an original one. I first saw it in one of Spanish-born D.C. chef José Andrés's cookbooks and thought the idea was genius. The concept is that by folding potato chips into beaten eggs, they soften sufficiently that when you subsequently transfer the mixture to a pan full of hot olive oil, it fries up into a thick omelet that remains moist and creamy in the center, while getting a bit of extra crispness around the edges from the chips.

Well, late one night I was poking through the sorry detritus I found in my fridge, lamenting the fact that out of all the wonderful homemade and storebought condiments and sauces I had in there—a half dozen varieties of miso and more than a half dozen chili sauces, two flavors of homemade mayo, three varieties of soy sauce, anchovies, tomato sauce, crème fraîche, harissa (both domestic and Moroccan), bacon-cherry-pepper relish, etc.—the only actual real food I had was a few eggs, an onion, and a bag of Cape Cod salt and vinegar chips.

Hang on a minute, I thought. Suddenly a dim lightbulb flickered over my head. Or rather, José Andrés plucked the lightbulb from over his head and held it over mine for a very brief second. I think we may have something here.

I like eggs, I like tortillas, I like salt and vinegar chips—why not combine them?

I started by softening the onion in plenty of good olive oil, then transfered them to a bowl where I whisked in the eggs and folded in the potato chips before frying up the whole mixture until set.

The first attempt was not bad, but in all honesty, it needed a stronger vinegar punch. Easy enough. For the second (and final) batch, I added a bit of extra vinegar to the egg mixture with the chips, kicking it up into more mouth-puckering territory.

There's no real big trick to cooking a tortilla—the most difficult part comes when you have to flip it. Unlike, say, an Italian frittata, which gets finished by baking or broiling and has a lighter, fluffier texture, a tortilla should be dense and moist, the result of flipping and compressing while it cook, all while making sure that the eggs don't cook all the way through to the center. In a perfect tortilla, the middle should have the creamy texture of very lightly set scrambled eggs.

You can flip your tortilla using a plate, but I find that the easiest method is to actually use a metal or glass pot lid. Just hold it over the skillet using a towel, then flip the skillet and the lid together. The tortilla should end up on the lid, whereupon you can simply slide it out into the skillet to cook the second side.

What I really love is how many layers a potato chip-based tortilla gets, and how crisp the exterior becomes.

I normally serve my tortilla with allioli, a Spanish version of the garlic and olive-oil based Provençal sauce aïoli. But it somehow didn't seem right to match such a rustic, homemade sauce with a dish that was the product of tradition and modern snack culture. Instead, I decided to doctor up some regular old store-bought Hellman's mayo by whisking in some garlic and some really good Spanish olive oil.

The resulting sauce has the vinegary tang of Hellman's, but the rich, peppery flavor of good olive oil—the perfect foil to my salt and vinegar omelet.

I'm considering barbecue or sour cream and onion potato chip tortillas next, but I think I may wait until desperation and hunger kick in first.

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What's cuter than one of the world's smallest deer? A baby of one of the world's smallest deer. This adorable fellow here is a Southern Pudu recently born at Nordens Ark in Sweden. Even when he's full grown, he'll still only weigh around 25 pounds.

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