I apologize if you've already seen this, since it's a couple days old — but I had to post this amazing music video, featuring Earl from Dinosaurs "lip"-synching to "Hypnotize" by the Notorious B.I.G. Because it is the most amazing thing I have seen in ages.
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This Notorious B.I.G./Dinosaurs Mash-Up Video Is My New Happy Place
Hangover-Free Wine Could Be on Its Way to Shelves — Food News
Instead of waking up with a pounding headache after a few too many glasses of wine, imagine waking up feeling sharp and refreshed.
Sounds too good to be true, right?
This Is What It Would Be Like To Dig To The Center Of The Earth
Berserkers
- Insane. A overdose of talakeshi jelly, or the product of too many exotic neurotoxins spread across too few nerves. Twitches, hallucinations. Ragged clothing, stained red from self-harm. Bare feet leave bloody footprints wherever they go. Attack with hammers, straight razors. Shouts: "I wanna eat your babies!" "Show me a bucket, and I'll show you a bucket!" "They bounce if you throw them hard enough!" "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! You'll forgive me, won't you?" "Harold! Harold, how have you been? How about those twenty silver you owe me?"
- Ensorcelled. Supernaturally beguiled into becoming the soldiers for some enchanter. Their veins glow red under their skin, and steam rises from their panting mouths. They scream the name of their enchanter when they spot an enemy, when they attack, and when they die. These are the only three things they'll ever do, and so the name is the only word they'll ever need. Attack with glittering swords, or a single fingernail, glowing and impossibly long.
- Viking. They're here for gold, a specific magical item, or simple to make a name for themselves. Often it'll be a group of teenagers, striving to kill a noteworthy opponent or die trying. They'll froth at the mouth and bite their axe hilts. In the battle-rage they scream like animals, and forget the use of speech. (They're quite reasonable the rest of the time.) They wear braided bracelets of their spouse's hair (or their mother's if they are unwed). Attack with greataxes and greatswords.
- Deathsworn. Shorn heads, plastered with chalk dust. Prayer beads shackled to their wrists. Penitent's robes. In exchange for the forgiveness of their sins, these men and women have received their third baptism from the Church--the baptism for the redemption of the damned. This is effectively a geas spell, with one goal: to seek the greatest sources of destroy them without hesitation or forethought. (They usually die pretty quickly.) You'll often find themselves in the darkest corners of the world. In these places, they attack everyone they see, reasoning that no decent person would ever stumble into such a hellhole. Attack with huge hammers and spiked staves.
- Laughing. Servants of the pain god. Beneath their black leather armor is an elaborate filigree of scars. Bottles on their waist are filled with blood, which they drink to slake their thirst. Around each one's neck is a trussed-up vampire bat, whose saliva they use as an anticoagulant (so their blood doesn't curdle). They delight in causing pain, but not in prolonging death. They grin when they are struck, and always die laughing. They fight with spiked chains and razor glaives.
- Otherworldly. It's easy to be careless with your body when you know its only a rental. Blue skin pebbled with yellow bumps. Beneath a bandana is a third, empty eye socket. Wear rags covered in yellow dust. Speak no known language. Attack slowly, carelessly. They fight with glass spears, like elongated icicles.
- Dungeon Chase. 4d6 berserkers appear, yelling and gnashing their teeth. They are numerous enough that fighting them is ill-advised. They intend to chase the party out of the dungeon, killing only the one member who is slowest.
- Rorshach Test. 2d6 berserkers are attacking some disgusting but benign creature (or creatures), made dangerous by its injuries. They will urge you to join them in attacking it.
- Awakening. 2d6 berserkers have located a magic spear (+3 vs angels) and learned the location of a graveyard spirit. They're going to go wake it up and kill it. Left to their own devices, they will succeed at the first have of this goal before being killed by the graveyard spirit and the spear trampled into fragments. This will replace the berserkers on the random encounter table with the much more dangerous graveyard spirit.
- Trophy-takers. 2d6 berserkers have killed another entry on this (dungeon's/hex crawl's) random encounter table. Roll again to find out which one. They appear covered in trophies from their last fight and have 1 special piece of equipment relevant to the thing they just fought.
- Enemy of My Enemy. Roll another random encounter and begin that one as normal, preferably with a monster or enemy that would normally go straight to combat. After 1-2 rounds of this combat, 4d6 berserkers bust into the room and begin screaming how they are going to kill everyone and wear their guts. This would be a good time to ally with your former enemy.
- Berserk Animal. They are accompanied by a big-pissed off animal. A dire wolf or huge boar (HD 4 each) is traditional. The berserk animal attacks a random person each round.
- Berserkers are accompanied by a bard, who will not fight. He is here to record their brave deaths. He can promise you good compensation if he is delivered to a nearby city.
- Berserkers are loaded up on all sorts of drugs, especially Talakeshi jelly (lets you always win initiative). This is stolen, and a local drug lord will want compensation if she hears about it.
- When you go back to town, you'll hear about the berserkers being lauded as brave heroes who killed lots of monsters. You'll be expected to join in when honoring their memories.
- Berserkers were servants of someone else. They'll expect you to pay compensation for killing them.
- Berserkers were known and hated. You'll be rewarded with friendship, connections, and favors.
- Berserkers were were known and especially feared. If you can prove that you killed them, you'll be rewarded with 500s. This will probably involve recovering all of their bodies, which may have been moved by predators or risen as undead by now.
Link About It: Google Feud
A simple browser-based game is taking advantage of those unpredictable (or predictable, depending on what you search) Google search suggestions. The Family Feud-style game is pretty straightforward: you earn points by accurately guessing terms that......
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Link About It: The Optimal US Road Trip
Self proclaimed “data tinkerer” Randal Olson has computed the optimal road trip across the United States. Using an algorithm that he previously applied to finding the best search path for locating Waldo in a “Where’s Waldo” book, Olson targeted must......
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Contest of the Day: Maine Inn Giving Away Property Through Essay Competition
The owner of the Center Lovell Inn and Restaurant in Western Maine wants to retire, and she’s giving her entire business away to anyone who can woo her with words.
It’s a bit like Willy Wonka, only your golden ticket will be demonstrating your mastery of the English language and the art of persuasion.
Anyone interested must submit a 200-word essay explaining why they are the right person for the job along with a $125 entry fee.
Owner Janice Sage says she is hoping to receive at least 7,500 submissions, which would bring in $900,000, or the equivalent of the listing price of the 12-acre property.
“I’ve never been known to do anything the normal way,” she told the Portland Press Herald. “I just want to pass it on for someone else.”
All entries must be postmarked by May 7 and she will announce the winner on May 21.
Sage herself took over the inn in 1993 through an essay competition held by the previous owners Bil and Susie Mosca. She only paid $100 for the opportunity at the time, and the contest made national news.
The inn was built in 1805, and it has views of both Kezar Lake and the White Mountains. There are 7 guest units, two dining rooms and a screened-in wrap-around porch.
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Airbag video: the difference 7/100ths of a second make
You Can Play This Music For Your Cat (And Your Cat May Actually Like It)
Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things . You might think music is one of them. But according to a new study, it's not that cats don't care about music – it's that they don't care about YOUR music. So what kind of music do cats appreciate? We're so glad you asked.
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Animal of the Day: ‘Gotcha’ the Cockatoo Runs Around Screaming Like a Crazy Person
This bird has either completely lost his mind or has something very important to tell us all.
Watch Gotcha the 11-year old Moluccan cockatoo run frantically around the house screaming a bunch of gibberish.
To anyone concerned that he might be some sort of cry for help, his owner Katie Vannoy says this is just a typical day for her crazy pet and that there is no need to worry.
“He is a wild, energetic bird and just loves to run on the floor and be loud,” she writes in the video’s caption.
For example, here is Gotcha recently dancing to “Wild Thing.”
He also enjoys throwing bottles of water around the room like some kind of animal.
And don’t even think about trying to reason with him.
You can check out more of your new favorite crazy bird on their YouTube channel.
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This is the Platonic ideal of Russian YouTube videos
ECards says this video may be the Platonic ideal of Russian YouTube videos.
It has every element necessary:
- A bear.
- Someone engaging in reckless behavior around a large animal.
- People speaking calmly in Russian while faced with certain death.
- Bleakness.
- Raw meat.
Giant Shrieking Raven Occupies Levi's Stadium, All Is Lost
The entire Western seaboard is being evacuated today, after an NHL webcam captured what appears to be an enormous bird the size of a football field interrupting the rink construction for Saturday's Kings-Sharks game. It is too late for humanity; surely the black death shall devour us all. Should the coal-winged skydestroyer come for me, please tell my family I love them and tell Todd McLellan to stop jerking everyone around with this captaincy thing.
These NFL Helmet Concept Designs Are Definitely Bold
Some of these alternate helmet designs, created by artist and graphic designer Dylan Young, are cool as hell. Others, not so much. They're all really fun to look at, though, and isn't that what matters?
The disappearance of a once-famous 1920s child novelist
Barbara Newhall Follett was eight years old when she began writing her novel, The House Without Windows. Read the rest
Werner Herzog's brutally honest motivational posters
Who needs life affirming bromides when you can have fatalistic, abyss-plumbing truths straight from the mouth of filmmaker Werner Herzog Stipetić? Here's a sampling from the Herzog Inspirationals Tumblr.
saved by the bell hooks
America and scientists: we're proud of them, but we don't believe them
Key & Peele Will Make You Laugh With More Fake Football Names
This is the third time they've done this sketch , and it is somehow not yet completely tiresome. This latest edition is aided by the presence of a few guest stars.
15 unique illnesses you can only come down with in German
Hörsturz is a sudden loss of hearing caused by stress. Frühjahrsmüdigkeit is "spring fatigue," the opposite of spring fever. Putzfimmel is an obsession with cleaning. Read the rest
Bad Lip Reading returns; Tony Romo, Cam Newton, more look plain silly
At this point, we have to laugh at the NFL to keep from crying. Thankfully, that's where Bad Lip Reading comes in. Just click and enjoy Tony Romo's confusion, Cam Newton's storytelling abilities, and the very creepy proclivities of several of your favorite head coaches. Great stuff.
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Can You Crack One Of Car Talk's 'Toughest Puzzlers'?
Zackc43I think it's the lead box.
Want More Women In Gaming? Make Better Shit.
...although equally interested in the green pigs....
....I realized just how perfect this book is for her. the contents are what she is all about. It all makes sense to her, crazy gravity, inside out rooms, lakes of blood on the ceiling. Best of all it inspires her. Which is what a good DIY D&D book should do. So we spent awhile this morning drawing vampires.
Her vampires are a mother and two daughters, although the one with the ears is secretly a gremlin. They had to move out of the small castle (which is far away) and move into the large castle (which is close up) because "That place got all jacked up by gremlins". The squiggly lines are roads and or roller coasters that move people around and it doesn't matter if the vampires fall off the roller coasters because they can fly.
I'm going to tell her about the Vampire Brides who can change into kittens when she gets home."
The Packers Got Everyone In Green Bay Playing Settlers Of Catan
The Wall Street Journal's Kevin Clark, who has been pumping out fun, off-color NFL stories all year, has another good one today. It's all about how a handful of Green Bay Packers got hooked on Settlers of Catan, the board game that all of your buddies who are bearded craft-beer enthusiasts are addicted to.
Each state's most disproportionately popular cuisine
According to a survey using Yelp data, Marylanders and Virginians love Peruvian food, Ohioans love soup, Coloradans love gluten free, and West Virginians love hotdog. Other trends: Read the rest
50 years of David Bowie's hairstyles
Helen Green drew and compiled this fantastic GIF of Bowie's hairstyles. (h/t Kottke.org)
Link About It: Internet Archive Releases 2,400 Games
Thanks to Internet Archive, your favorite childhood games like “Sim City,” “Oregon Trail” and 2,400 other MS-DOS games are now available to play straight from your computer, all for free. The MS-DOS emulating software running the games is a new and......
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Downton Against Humanity: "Downton Abbey" stars play Cards Against Humanity
"Here's what happens when Lady Edith, Mrs. Patmore, and Mrs. Hughes play a raunchy American card game." (more…)