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Scan of the Month features X-ray computed tomography of everyday items such as game controllers, plants, shavers, minifigs, a Gameboy, an instant camera, sneakers and so on.
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Here's an awesome version of My Chemical Romance's "Welcome to the Black Parade"—it's called "Pride Parade" and is performed by Sub-Radio, the same pop-punk band that treated us to "Stacy's Dad," "Mr. Darkside," and "Pop-Punk Mario." — Read the rest
This is a wild story! So, in the late sixties, George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic crew were tripping balls on LSD on their way to a gig in Pittsburgh. Billy Bates, one of the founders, thought he'd be clever and take a shortcut, driving right past a barricade. — Read the rest
They say it's all about "location, location, location" when it comes to real estate.
In this dead quiet Philadelphia home, a viral video tour briefly revealed a surprising twist in its location: a cemetery in the backyard.
Back deck view wild as shit 😂 pic.twitter.com/jHAxek8iDG
Honest Trailers predicts a whole lot more game adaptions. Lacking a PlayStation, I haven't played Last of Us the game, so I didn't know exactly what would happen in Last of Us the show. Having played a video game or two, however, and seen a few zombie movies it was not hard to guess exactly what would happen. — Read the rest
Meet Wade Fowler, a very kind human who cleans gravestones that have fallen into disrepair. He's based in Iowa, and documents his projects on Instagram, where he calls himself "Millennial Stone Cleaner." He also researches and tells the stories of the people whose gravestones he's cleaning. — Read the rest
How do you solve a problem like Superman? For the last 40 years, Superman's popularity has declined significantly from its former glory. Unlike his Justice League cohort Batman, Supes' stature as a pillar in the superhero genre has continually eroded with each passing year. — Read the rest
Herkimer, dubbed the worlds largest beetle, is a 16 x 10 foot Hercules Beetle statue who lives in Colorado Springs. This gigantic bug has guarded the entrance to Rock Creek Canyon along Highway 115 for over sixty years. Herkimer is located right next to the Colorado Springs Bug Museum. — Read the rest
The original Taco Bell building has been ripped out of the ground for safekeeping. In 2015, the first ever Taco Bell restaurant was uprooted from its original location in Downey, California, and driven down interstate 5 to the Taco Bell HQ in Irvine, CA. — Read the rest
I don't know about you, but this song and the problem it addresses are totally relatable. In my world, I often sit down to work and then get distracted by Henry Rollins' adorable face, so I have to stop what I'm doing to pet him and ask him 20 times why he's so cute. — Read the rest
When I was in high school, I was in show choir, where I used to get to sing and dance to my little heart's content. Somehow, though, that wasn't enough singing or dancing, so my friends and I would pretend we lived in a magical place called 'musical land' where it was normal to spontaneously burst into song and dance at any random moment—at the library, the cafeteria, or just wandering around campus. — Read the rest
Nick Cave is embarking on a solo North American tour this fall. He will be joined by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood.
— Read the restCave's solo tour begins in Asheville, North Carolina on September 19th and features shows at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Theatre, Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, Austin's Moody Center, and New York's Kings and Beacon Theatres before wrapping up with a two-night stand at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theatre on October 27th and 28th.
From The Daily Mail:
— Read the restDemonstrators are said to have thrown crabs at police following a week of violent clashes over France's reforms to the national pension age.
A stand-off over maritime regulations in Rennes saw protesters clutching spider crabs during altercations with the authorities.
I knew silkworms in captivity had a hard life, I just wasn't prepared to see actual footage of the process. After dining on leaves and sleeping for a month, they then spin their wormy hearts out to create silk fiber for their cocoon. — Read the rest
Republicans didn't miss a beat, insisting that Democratic sugar daddy George Soros is the grand puppeteer behind Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's pursuit of the justice in the Donald Trump hush-money case. Never mind that Soros hasn't donated a single penny to Bragg or even exchanged pleasantries with him. — Read the rest
If you want to swim or shower in style, you might consider this bathing cap that is made to look like hair. You'll surely be able to fool everyone into thinking that your not wearing a rubber bathing cap (as long as they don't notice the strap underneath your chin). — Read the rest
CBS Sunday Morning shares an unusual and heartwarming story of love lost, and found:
— Read the restLast August, Blossom the goose lost her mate, Bud. They'd lived on a pond at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa. Blossom's grief was evident to the cemetery's staff, and so general manager Dorie Tammen decided to post a personal ad for Blossom.
Despite clear dashcam video evidence that Eric Popper recklessly fired his gun multiple times in a road rage incident, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office dropped all charges against him.
From Local10.com:
— Read the restThe suspect, 30-year-old Eric Popper, was driving his black Toyota Venza when new video from the rear of the vehicle shows how he abruptly cut off another driver.
Yet another driver appears to be on yet another serial road rage spree in California's Orange County. Los Angeles recently caught a recent Tesla-driving maniac.
Perhaps there is something in the water in California these days, maybe it is cocaine.
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Brian Michael Bendis is one of the biggest names in comic books, having launched the original Ultimate Spider-Man run back in 2000, as well as revitalizing the Avengers franchise for the new millennium. Prior to that, Bendis had made his mark writing and illustrating crime comics. — Read the rest
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