In news that shouldn’t surprise anyone who wants no part of whatever the hell is going on in the photo above, researchers have discovered that painting large eyespots on cow asses helps deters predation from large carnivores. Some more info from the recently published Communications Biology article while I paint
These are a few shots of the see-through restrooms designed by Shegiru Ban’s architecture firm and installed in a Tokyo park as part of the Tokyo Toilet Project, which is ‘enlisting world-famous architects to create toilets “like you’ve never seen.”‘ A bold mission, because I’ve seen all kind of toilets
These are two TikTok videos of the web slinger style hand sanitizer sprayers built by Jake Laser, who clearly won the last name lottery. Both operate using lighters that have been refilled with pressurized hand sanitizer, and the first video is of a model operated with a finger press in
This is a short video of a man demonstrating a trick he learned online to get his shihtzu Nitro, who’s a firm believer he deserves people food, to eat his regular brown and crunchy. Basically, dude briefly puts the food bowl in the fridge while making a bunch of noise
This is a video from Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines, of a driver who MacGyver’d himself a manual windshield wiper system after the existing system’s motor went out. Pretty clever, but why not have the passenger operate the wipers so you don’t have to yank the rope and drive
This is a short video from let’s just assume Florida *checks video, verifies Miami* of a man cutting the grass by towing a lawnmower behind his little gas powered mini-bike (previously: this Texan towing a lawnmower behind their SUV). The title of the video is ‘A Clever Way to Mow
In other bird news, this is a video of penguins at the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, England chasing bubbles blown from a bubble machine that was donated by someone. First of all, who donates a bubble machine? That’s something you keep until you die and then are buried with. Secondly,
This is a video of two of Fuji-Q Highland amusement park’s top executives riding the park’s pride and joy roller coaster Fujiyama while wearing masks, and as stoically as possible to demonstrate just how little fun one can have riding a roller coaster. While amusement parks have reopened in the