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Make Your Own Jean-Claude van Damme Movie!!!
Proving once again that there are second lives in showbiz, check out even more JCVD Epicosity - here be royalty free green-screen footage. Happy Days!
Anti-Vax idiots - part ∞
Our thoughts are also with the measles-ravaged country America. I hope we are screening them before they come to Africa. — Elnathan John (@elnathan) February 1, 2015
Jalapeño, black bean, and mango salad
Cube 1/4 cup mangoes into 1/2" chunks . Place on aluminum foil, and broil for around 5 minutes till the tops are slightly charred (If you can't find fresh mangoes, get frozen ones. They're already cubed!) (If you can't find that either, pineapple works just as well) Dice 2 large tomtaos lengthwise into cubes, approximately the size of a black-bean - you want all the ingredients to be, roughly, the same size so that they mix up well - and place in a large bowl Add the following as a dressing 1/2 cup chopped cilantro 1 lemon juiced 1 medium jalapeño diced fine 1" grated ginger 2 tbsp oil 1/4 tsp salt (or more, to taste) and mix everything together. (This is a bit of a coarse salad, so don't worry about whisking the dressing or anything like that!) Distribute into four bowls, and top with the broiled mangoes. If you can get your hands on perline (small fresh mozarella balls), use a slotted tablespoon to scatter 1tbsp on each...
The Penrose Triangle (aka "Fun With Dimensions")
You know what impossible figures are, right? No, not Barbie dolls, I mean, in the cognitive or math sense, as in - something that is physically unachievable, but because you're looking at it in 2-D on the screen, seems reasonable. Ok, fine, Barbie counts too (as do comic characters, the female ones in particular. Also, anything by Rob Liefeld) The one to the right has always been one of my favorites - its a Penrose Triangle. Yup, that Penrose. The one with the seriously awesome mind and the Kleenex lawsuit . It is seriously cool, and has even made it onto a postage stamp :-) Incidentally, if the above looks vaguely Escher-like, its not surprising - it was inspired by some of Escher's works. Incidentally, Escher's most famous paintings (the staircase one, and the waterfall) were inspired by an article that Penrose wrote. From Teh Wikipedia As a student in 1954, Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by ch...
