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Eminem Should Give a Shout Out to This Rap Goddess

Language in this video, obviously.





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This Foot Locker Commercial Shows a Small Glimpse of What It Would Look Like if Everything Were Right in the World







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Somebody at LEGO Needs to Get the Stamp of Approval on This Steampunk AT-AT Walker




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Enjoy This Glorious Cover of the 'Imperial March' Played on a Coffee Stirrer




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College Students Built Frozen-Themed Prosthetic Arm for a 9-Year-Old Girl to Help Fulfill Her Dream of Becoming a Disney Princess

The arm was created by Enabling the Future, which has a chapter at Sienna College in Albany, New York. For its first project the Siena e-NABLE group made an Iron Man-themed hand for 5-year-old Jack Carder in Ohio.



In this case, nine-year-old Karissa Mitchell's (who was born without a right hand and most of her wrist) mother reached out to the group on campus, Siena College's director of marketing and communications said.

"She's watched the movie at least 100 times. We sing the songs all the time. We even have a karaoke machine that's 'Frozen'-themed," said Karissa's mother. The prosthetic was built using a 3-D printer and is comprised of 30 parts (it took near 30 hours to make).

To help Karissa achieve her dream of becoming a Disney princess, the team used "a pretty transparent ice blue color filament and added snowflakes to the forearm and her name with an Elsa crown on the cuff," said Alyx Gleason, the project lead and president of Siera e-NABLE. The arm also came with an Olaf LED light source.

Anyone who is in need of an arm or hand is encouraged to reach out to Siena e-NABLE.




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You Grow So Much Before Senior Year, You're Almost Unrecognizable




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Badminton Rally WIN

The action really picks up around the thirty second mark.

Respect for Badminton: +1





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Here's Why You Like the Smell of Your Own Disgusting Farts, You Gross Weirdo. Seriously, See a Doctor

Everyone likes the smell of their own brand. 

You've probably heard that one before, when you were ripping a real stinker in the car and rolling the windows up because you're a sadist. 

via GIPHY

But why do you like torturing innocent bystanders of your disgusting gas? Honestly, being subjected to your farts should be considered torture. Liking your farts is akin to waterboarding. You're a war criminal. You and your farts should sit before an international tribunal. 

Yes, you. 

Anyway, this video explains why you're such a sicko. ASAP Science continues to do great work in under five minutes. 

via The Real Sporcle





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You would be so proud

Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World Trade Center. On the morning




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Never get a bulldog

When he wrote this letter to his mother in 1944, Roald Dahl was working at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C.—one of hundreds of undercover agents employed by Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service to spy on the United States. Dahl’s debut novel, The Gremlins, had been published the year before, and it would be another




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Please don’t let anyone Americanise it!

Born in Cambridge in 1952, Douglas Adams was best known for creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a wildly successful project that began in 1978 as a science-fiction comedy radio series and eventually evolved to become something much larger, in many formats and in many languages, adored by many millions of people around the world.




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I would like to be paid like a plumber

Although they only existed for seven years and released just three albums, Nirvana were a band of immeasurable influence in the music world thanks in no small part to Smells Like Teen Spirit, a single track on Nevermind, their second album. It was this song that brought them out into the open, going on to sell millions




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My heart almost stood still

The following letter was written exactly 100 years ago. It’s a remarkable piece of writing that never fails to move me. And because you deserve it, above the transcript I’ve included audio of the letter being read by the lovely Juliet Stevenson, taken from the Letters of Note: Music audiobook. Born in Alabama in 1880, Helen Keller




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Out NowThe Complete Phonogram, The Wicked + the Divine 28, Doctor Aphra 6 and Mercury Heat 12

Cripes. What a big week. For more details, I direct you to my newsletter which is best for this kind of thing, but in Brief… The Complete Phonogram. 504 pages comprising all three volumes (the first coloured for the first time), all the eighty-odd previously uncollected B-sides and all in an oversized hardback format. If […]




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C2E2 Schedule

Team WicDiv (minus Matt) are at C2E2 in chicago this weekend. Come and say hello! We don’t charge for signatures, but if you want more than (say) 5 signing in one go, we ask people to go to the back of a queue to make it fair for everyone. This may change depending on how […]





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Shaded Metallic Thread Sets – They’re Fabulous!

Last week, I briefly mentioned the shaded metallic thread sets from Au Ver a Soie that I’m so happy to …






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I Am Not Real: Artificial Intelligence in the Needlework World

The topic of AI in the needlework world has been on my radar for well over a year. But I’ve …




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Holiday Open House at Needle ‘n Thread!

I’m so excited to announce this today! If you live somewhere in the vicinity of Northeast Kansas – or if …















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Blog Migration Notice




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I CAN SMELL STOOPID.




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Amazon Delivery Arrived




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Lolcat Needed DIS Surprise ❤




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This is my long leg.




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Just a whisker will do




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Not as planned




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Now that I'm comfortable, you may sit down.




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The three wise men are late again !




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I'll wait for the red one !