“This was from some beard contest from back in the day. Guy who enters at :21 seconds will blow your mind! This dude better have won because that beard is amazing. He totally styled it like a birdcage around his freaking head.”
“The lights went out on Thomas Edison 78 years ago this week, but luckily there are still inventors out there flooding YouTube with tons of really pointless inventions.”
“First let me say to you that this is very similar to Dance Dance Revolution and Tetris mixed together. Then let me say to you that it’s run on a little thang called the Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform. In this project is a new way to play tetris – interacting with your feet and your body rather than just with your fingertips. Made by interface designers Luyza Pereira and Bettina Hiel for a school project. Bet ya’d have trouble, ya pro!” w/ photos + video
“Remember when you bathed in Super Mario bubble bath, or carried your PB&J in a Nintendo lunch bag? A makeshift museum popped up over the weekend to showcase nostalgic Super Mario Bros. artifacts like those, including costumes, games, bubble bath, ponchos and even a Mario cake pan. “I didn’t know Mario had so much random stuff,” said Jason, a longtime Mario fan. “A cake pan? Some of this stuff is Kiss-level gratuity, but I love it.” The museum, set up by Nintendo to celebrate the Saturday release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, was part of a launch event at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center. The items on display were collected by Nintendo employees over the years.” w/ photos
“This happened to me once after I drank a 6-pack of non-alcoholic beer.”
“In the year 3000: The light energy captured from Conan’s reflection will have powered 320 lunar missions.” — Ian Renga
“Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George had planned to wed at their local town hall in November 2008, but he was killed just two days before the ceremony in a motorcycle accident. Ms Jaskiewitz, 32, used a little-known section of the French civil code that allows posthumous marriages if all the formalities for the wedding were completed before one of the partners died, including the setting of a date. She proved to officials that she and Mr George had been living together since 2004 and that they shared a bank account… Around ten posthumous marriages are carried out each year in France, French interior ministry officials said.” w/ photos
“Society functions on a set of rules and regulations that are typically designed for our benefit and well-being as a community – whether we like them or not, laws are in place to promote the greater good. However, every so often a nit-picky law is put in place that makes little sense to the greater public concern.” w/ photos
