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Ashes To Ammunition of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Ashes To Ammunition of the Day

Ashes To Ammunition of the Day: For a mere $1,250, the Alabama-based ammunition manufacturer Holy Smokes will help you preserve the memory of a late loved one by shoving their remains into “100 rounds of rifle ammunition, 250 shotshells, or 250 pistol cartridges, in the caliber/gauge of your choice.”

On their official site, Holy Smoke — a company started by two state law enforcement officers — talks up its product’s multiple benefits: It fulfills “a need for an individual’s choice” in how he/she is “remembered or celebrated”; it offers a low-cost alternative to burial services; and it carries “a much smaller ecological footprint” than “most of the current funeral interment methods.”

Noticeably absent: It allows family members to avenge their loved ones with bullets made from their loved ones. How badass is that?

[tfb / neatorama / image: hwp.]

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How About That of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

How About That of the Day: Watching Clarissa Explains It All on TeenNick’s new 90′s nostalgia block late one night, ONTD reader sexi_squidward noticed something curious and rewound her DVR to double check.

Sure enough, Ferguson appears to predict Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens, which, interestingly enough, opens today.

Well, Clarissa? I’m waiting for an explanation.

[ontd.]

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Street Art of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Street Art of the Day

Street Art of the Day: “Rural City,” the latest addition to EVOL‘s ongoing Buildings stencil series (previously), finds the German street artist digging urban trenches in Hamburg’s countryside for MS Dockville.

More photos here.

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Time-Waster of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Time-Waster of the Day

Time-Waster of the Day: James Bridle’s Rorschmap is a neat little hack that turns aerial shots from Google Maps into gorgeous kaleidoscopic dreamscapes.

Says Bridle:

Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything. We are bored with your squares and your margins. We want new shapes and new dimensions, the unicode snowmen of visual representation. †‡†, as the man said.

[waxy.]

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Sneak Peek of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Sneak Peek of the Day: Ned Flanders channels Dexter Morgan in this brief preview of the 22nd annual Treehouse of Horror episode, which is set to air on October 30th.

[insidetv / spoilertv.]

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Big League Disappointment of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Big League Disappointment of the Day

Big League Disappointment of the Day: The Rev. John Foundation Little League team from Kampala, Uganda, defeated their Arabian American Little League rivals to become the first African youth baseball team ever to advance to the Little League World Series.

Hooray, right? Wrong.

This year’s Little League World Series, as every Little League World Series, will be held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Sadly, the Ugandan team will not be able to attend as they’ve just been denied entry into the US.

Something about discrepancies in their documentation.

A spokesman for the State Department said consular officers “examined each of these individuals and accorded them every consideration under the law.” He wouldn’t specify as to the reason for the denial, but said he didn’t believe it was out of concern that players would stay behind after the tournament.

“It is unfortunate, as we were very much looking forward to welcoming the first African team to the Little League Baseball World Series,” said Little League Baseball and Softball president Stephen D. Keener in a statement. “We are going to have to take a few days to evaluate all our options, and decide how best to move forward.”

[bloomberg / @mikenizza.]

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Iconography of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Iconography of the Day

Iconography of the Day: Cowboys & Aliens marks Harrison Ford’s 40th credited big-screen appearance.

The National Post‘s Steve Murray (AKA Chip Zdarsky AKA Todd Diamond) celebrates this extra-large (get it?) accomplishment with “Forty Fords” — an illustrated “look back at everyone’s favourite acting chameleon.”

[nationalpost / thanks chris!]

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Web Series of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Web Series of the Day: SNL writer Mike O’Brien invites the eminently adorable Elijah Wood to join him in the closet for some furry talk and Hobbit spoilers in the first episode of his new web series 7 Minutes in Heaven (Which is more like 4-and-a-half Minutes in Heaven if we’re being honest).

[7mih / thanks simone!]

See Also: Andy Cohen; Kristen Wiig.

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Recursive Orange Is Recursive of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Recursive Orange Is Recursive of the Day

Recursive Orange Is Recursive of the Day: Redditor canaznguitar says: “Found this orange growing inside my orange yesterday.”

inb4 Orangeception, oranges all the way down, I heard you like oranges, double orange all the way, orange you glad I didn’t say orange, nothing rhymes with orange (except another orange).

[reddit.]

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Not A Single F*ck of the Day

Jul. 29, 2011

Not A Single F*ck of the Day: F*ck everything about this Jon Lajoie video.

(NSFW, explicit apathy.)

[jonlajoie.]

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