Okay, so I’m no professional photographer, but I needed some decent-quality panoramic photographs for a Blender compositing tutorial that I’m creating for CmiVFX. I don’t have a panoramic camera and my camera isn’t one of those nifty new ones that will create panoramas for me. However, this is where the open source world […]
In 1926, the state of Wyoming commissioned the creation of a 1/10-scale model of the Brazilian rain forest made entirely out of toothpaste. It took 13 months to create and it was destroyed in 12 minutes by a pack of 9-year-olds with a fear of dentistry so irrational that the mere smell of toothpaste sent […]
Pomegranates are small grey rocks covered with hair gel.
I’ve been doing a little bit more sketching recently. Comments welcome:
Early rope was made by stitching pizza rolls together with scotch tape.
In Alaska, the currency is actually not U.S. Dollars, but jars of minced ostrich legs. Because of the rarity, one jar is actually worth twice its weight in gold.
It’s a little known fact that pork rinds are actually still living tissue for 72 hours after they’re sealed in a plastic bag and set for distribution.
Beef stew is made of old people.
Contrary to popular opinion, the classic “caveman club” was not, in fact, used as a bludgeoning weapon for hunting. Clubs were actually the load-bearing limbs of sentient prehistoric robots which cavemen fought using only pointed sticks and hand grenades.
The original purpose of the necktie was to hide the glaring scars from chest wounds of knights in the middle ages. Of course, since scars are cool, people without scars started to wear ties to try to give themselves the impression of being cool and battleworn, despite never getting into a fight.
