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Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Pro-sailor Alex Thomson performs a risky “keel walk” off an 8-tonne carbon fibre yacht tilted at a 45-degree angle.
And here’s the Hugo Boss ad the stunt produced:
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: In court today, a Portland couple pled guilty to disorderly conduct a day after they were arrested for playing a kidnapping-themed sex game.
Police responded to reports of a naked woman bound with duct tape spotted in the back seat of a car, only to learn from the driver, 31-year-old Nikolas Alexander Harbar, that he and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Stephanie Morgan Pelzner, were merely engaging in some harmless role-play.
“He said ‘yeah, that’s my girlfriend we’re role playing for Valentine’s Day,’” Sgt. Pete Simpsons told KGW. “And she was in the back naked tied up. And she confirmed it was all part of a role play.”
Despite the consensual nature of the mock-kidnapping, police arrested the two, and charged them with disorderly conduct. They have accepted the charge, and agreed to perform 16 hours of community service.
An informal survey on KGW’s website finds that most people feel the couple committed no crime. 57% of respondents say that Harbar and Pelzner “chose poorly,” but should not have been charged with disorderly conduct, while 26% disagree.
17% don’t care either way.
[kgw.]
Everybody Needs A Charitable Hobby of the Day: Supporting the troops in his own special way, sculptor Stuart Murdoch used 5,016 egg cartons to construct a life-size replica of the British Army’s main battle tank, the FV 4034 Challenger 2.
As fun as it is to build a tank out of egg carton’s for the hell of it, Murdoch actually had an ulterior motive: He’s promoting Eggs For Soldiers’ national egg and spoon race — a fundraising initiative in support of Help for Heroes.
Watch the tank take shape below:
Most Expensive Starbucks Drink of the Day: Logan A. Warren of Geek on Call has reportedly set a new world record for most expensive Starbucks drink. Congrats?
Logan says a “laughing barista” spent 30 minutes helping him concoct a Trenta monstrosity that set him back an eye-opening $23.60.
That’s nearly three bucks pricier than the previous most expensive Starbucks drink. Hooray?
So what was in Logan’s lavish libation?
16 shots of espresso, a shot of soy milk, caramel flavoring, banana puree, strawberry puree, vanilla beans, Matcha powder, protein powder, and a drizzle of caramel and mocha.
The so-called (by me) Hangover Marauder clocks in at a heart-stopping-and-restarting 1,400mg of caffeine — that’s as much as 14 regular cups of coffee!
And the taste? “Tolerable, but not good.”
The hell you say.
[geekologie.]
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Bobcat Ninja uses his trusty Bobcat E50 Compact Excavator to stack a pair of beer bottles and top them off with a golf ball.
[b&p.]
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Jemima Packington of Somerset is the world’s first and only “asparamancer” — to wit, she makes predictions about the future based on the arrangement of asparagus spears that have been tossed on the ground.
“It might sound silly to some people but my readings are very accurate,” says Ms. Packington, who claims to have predicted the fall of Gordon Brown, the global financial crisis, and The King’s Speech‘s Best Picture get.
For 2012, the spearseer says the euro will experience a total collapse; one of the UK’s main political parties will undergo a leadership change; a high-profile British figure will die; and not one, but two Royal pregnancies will be announced.
So let’s meet back here next year and see how well she did.
[dlisted.]
Death Wish of the Day: A Russian kid taunts gravity with a series of exceedingly dangerous free-running/climbing stunts that shockingly don’t result in his inevitable-seeming demise.
[22words.]
Stupid Human Tricks of the Day: Alyssa can take any word she’s given and pronounce it backwards within three seconds or less.
See Also: Reversed.
[reddit.]
Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Former smoker Barry Chappell was flying to Europe back in 2006 and couldn’t find a place to toss his Nicorette gum. So, naturally, he decided to begin constructing the world’s largest medicated gumball.
Fast-forward to the present, and Barry’s ball is now 95,200 pieces strong, clocking in at a nauseating 175 pounds.
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! will be rewarding Mr. Chappell for his important contribution to culture and the betterment of society live on Art & Coin TV — the DirecTV channel he co-owns — tomorrow, Thursday, January 26th, at 8 PM ET.
Learn more above Chappell’s accomplishment here, if you must.
Backflip Compilation of the Day: Syracuse University student Sam Morrison’s dad bet him $100 he couldn’t do a backflip every day for a year. On December 31st, 2011, Morrison proved his dad wrong by completing 365 backflips — all cataloged on his Tumblr blog.
“I think my life goal is to do a backflip on every continent,” Morrison told Syracuse’s Post-Standard, which has been following Sam’s story since February.
In related news, there is absolutely nothing going on in Syracuse.
[samthecobra.]
