French artist Julien Berthier has created this fully-functioning and seaworthy model of a capsizing boat, complete with engine and rudder.
He may or may not be tooling around the high seas right now, sipping champers, waiting to be rescued.
Truly he is the Poseidon of all trolls.
More pix of the Trollboat here.
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Squee overload at Longleat Animal Park.
Apparently, they think keeper Beverley Allen is their mum.
Awful Fan Art, from the same family of sites that came up with Damn You Autocorrect.
Come for the art. Stay for the headlines. Our favourite: ‘David Schwimmer Minus A Few Chromosomes’
In fairness, the one of Elton John is an improvement.
Previously: I’ll Be There For You. In Your Nightmares.
Or, if you’d prefer something closer to home.
Sometimes, Cliffs Notes just aren’t reductive enough.
Cutting straight to the lolzy core of world literature, Dan Wilbur of Better Book Titles has a massive library of alternative covers with which you can hold your own in any literary pub conversation for upward of 20 seconds.
He releases a new title every day of the week, or you can follow him on Twitter.
Above, (from the top, left to right): Charles Dickens’ Bleak House; J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in The Rye; Dante’s Inferno; Charles Bukowski’s Factotum; George Orwell’s 1984 and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
But you knew that.
That’s right, the E-Tomb.
The designers, Huang Jianbo, Zhao Ting, Wang Yushan, Ran Xiangfei and Mo Ran explain:
Its revolutionary aspect is that it can save the network information of the person passed away. E-TOMB is a good destination of people’s network life voyage, which is also a new way for relatives and friends in remembrance of the one passed away. They can visit the blog or facebook of the decedent by using mobile phones.
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Last Leaf: the latest release from OK GO’s Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky. The video, directed by the band, Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammad and animated by Geoff McFetridge, is comprised entirely of 15 frames-per-second photographs of toast.
So it is.
