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Every country in the world has a fair portion of its history steeped in bloodshed, war & a blatant disregard for human life – none of us are truly guilt free. But it’s one thing to document the history and shortcomings of a country and quite another to peddle political propaganda designed to drive a wedge between nations and fear amongst the population. The more restrictive a government and the less information that flows, the less aware its people become. Once that starts occurring, it’s infinitely easier t0 set the agenda according to your own interests. That’s the sole aim with any form of propaganda, cherry pick information designed influence an audience in an emotional rather than rational manner.

Here are all t-shirts Sheldon Cooper was wearing during six seasons of The Big Bang Theory.

These miniature potato installations are absolutely hilarious. Artist Peter Pink, self-described as "a nonsense maker," has taken the very basic food item and transformed it into a large group of expressive personalities. Potatoes is a series of situations in which the pink-sunglasses-wearing spuds protest with pink flags, fight off large groups of cucumbers, and catch some rays under pink umbrellas on the beach.

We do not often imagine our favorite heroes getting sad, but artist J. Salvador has created a cute series of posters to show that they do. Called “Super Emo Friends”, this series pays tribute to our favorite pop culture characters—and their problems. From Batman, who laments that his parents are dead, to the Green Lantern’s amusing complaint that his favorite color is actually yellow, these illustrations will definitely brighten up your day. Scroll down to view the rest.

This oddly formed fresh produce is grown in the vicinity of Fukushima, Japan and from the look of them, I think it is better if you don’t eat anything grown in this area at all.

A guy bought this PS2 for $10. I don’t think the owner of this gaming console is going to be happy that it was sold.

It's that time of the week! (Hopefully, it's not that time of the month for half of the population though.) It's time for our Funny, Sexy, and Awesome Cosplay we found on the internet today. Since it's Comicon season again, you know there are bound to be a whole bazooka load of new Cosplay's for your eyes to gander on. Get your sewing kits ready, because maybe you'll be inspired and by next year's Halloween, you'll be ready with your costume IFFF you work hard enough. Now get out there and get creative!

We’ve all been there. You want to spice things up in your life, but rather than skydive or buy a new hot pot, this one in blue, NOT red, you instead look for a shortcut to your home, and end up getting stuck in a wall, and scream for help, and everyone assumes you’re a ghost, and you’re in China, and you’re a middle-aged woman. Classic. Having gone too far to turn around, the woman, from China’s Anhui province, became entrenched in brick and concrete wall. Screams, however, proved of little help, as building residents naturally assumed she was a ghost. Ultimately, a passerby, realizing her screams did not emanate from the grave, called for help. Yes, it’s just another one of those hijinks we get into every day, like scheduling two dates at the same time on the same night, and then you get stuck in a wall at Burger King when you should be at McDonald’s.

Good Cop: This nine-minute Breaking Bad refresher is pretty cool, and helpful, whether you’ve watched all the episodes or not. If you’ve been watching since the beginning, it’ll definitely help jog your memory before the final eight episodes start on August 11, as it hits all the important moments in the show’s 54 episode run that got us to where we are now. And if you haven’t seen the show at all yet, it serves as a kind of Cliff’s Notes to give you the basic framework so you can jump in for the premiere without dedicating a huge chunk of your next few weeks to getting caught up. Bad Cop: WHY AREN’T YOU CAUGHT UP ON BREAKING BAD YET?! GOD. JUST WATCH THE EPISODES. THERE’S STILL TIME. YOU’D ONLY HAVE TO WATCH LIKE TWO EPISODES A DAY. ARE YOU REALLY TELLING ME YOU CAN’T DO THAT? REALLY? WHO ARE YOU, THE PRESIDENT? CARVE OUT THE TIME AND WATCH IT. FEEL FREE TO USE THIS VIDEO FOR WHAT IT IS — A REFRESHER — BUT DO NOT USE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR ACTUALLY WATCHING ONE OF THE BEST TELEVISED DRAMAS IN HISTORY. I WILL SCREAM.

“It’s so hot outside.” “Can’t summer be over?” “UGH. So hot outside. Thanks, Obama.” That’s what you think you sound like right now. “Blahblahblah mememe moomoomoo” is what your constant summer griping actually sounds like to me. Maybe instead of complaining about how bright the sun is (are you serious?), you should be thankful that you don’t have to wear pants for at *least* two more months. No pants. And this does not only apply to ladies. If I saw a dude in a skirt right now, first I would probably think “Hey dude, Bonnaroo was several weeks ago and in a different state,” but then I would probably think “Right on, sir. Right on.” Also, did it not occur to you that 95 degree weather is a permission slip for unlimited tiki drinks? Seriously, everybody needs to stop complaining about summer. Right now. Here’s why.

Inspired by “video game, comic, and film characters, heroes and villains,” Vancouver, British Columbia design studio MITMUNK hand-prints leggings that look like various types of armour. All of these completely badass (and unisex) leggings are made of a polyester-spandex fabric.

Sand is probably the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about beach. However, this is not the case with the Panjin Red Beach in China, which is, actually, red, and not covered in sand at all. Such phenomena is caused by a type of sea weed Sueda. It starts growing during April and May, then stays green during the summer, but starts turning vividly red in autumn. The Red Beach is located in the biggest wetland and reed marsh in the world, and actually hosts the most completed ecosystem that can be found: the area has become home to more than 260 kinds of birds and 399 kinds of wild animals. You can find the endangered Crown Cranes and Black Beaked Gulls there, which is why the area is even called “home of the cranes”.

Want to build sand castles but don’t want to go outside in the hot, hot sun? Too bad! Just kidding, that’s totally possible thanks to Sand by Brookstone. It looks and feels like sand, but functions a bit like silly putty, letting you shape it into anything you can imagine. Surely this stuff is made of magic right? Nope, it’s actually 98% sand and 2% polymer. And unlike regular sand (which is actually 98% sand and 2% broken glass, trash, and stuff that makes you say, “Ew what is that?”) it won’t stick to you, dry out, or make a mess.

Jk jk there’s nothing ironic about this. Not even by the Alanis Morissette definiton which, I think we can all agree, is very loose. Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife isn’t ironic so much as it is just bad luck. Amrite? Imrite. Artist Elizabeth Beals illustrated this series of DC Comic superheroines as hipsters. There’s Wonderwoman, Catwoman, Supergirl, and more! So many more. Okay, more like 4 more. The ladies are all dressed up in the typical hipster garb aka cheap thrift shop finds paired with overpriced shit you can buy at Urban Outfitters. All these hipster-heroines are missing is a pack of American Spirits, a 12-pack of PBR, and a fixie. Oh, plus a dose of pretension and slightly inflated ego.

On an ordinary day in Dorset, on Charmouth beach, visitors were surprisingly met with an enormous skeletal remain of what appears to be… a dragon? The Jurassic skull, said to be the size of a London bus, seems to have appeared out of nowhere. Now, the beach, which is "famous for its treasure trove of dinosaur fossils," certainly has an easy find for fossil hunting archeologists, though they may be dismayed to find that the "artifact" is, in fact, a sculpture.

This girl is the smartest schoolgirl of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Last Monday she received the Academic Excellence Award from the mayor of the city. Let's see what she was wearing during the event in the town hall. Pretty hot.

These representations of historical photographs are photoshopped creations by Tumblr user, Zuzahin who uses drawings and fashion of the times as inspiration.

Using both celebrities and the characters they play, he pinpointed the shoes most commonly associated with each in a minimalist design. Check your pop culture expertise by seeing how many famous names you can recall by the shoes on their feet.

There's a difference between "good" and "recognizable." Not that the two can't be mutually exclusive, but, well, let's put it this way: you'd probably notice Kim Kardashian in a crowd before you would Vince Gilligan, not because you think she's somehow "better" than him, but because she's Kim Kardashian, magazine star/The Soup punching bag, and he's Vince Gilligan, the humble, pasty showrunner. Kim is the "recognizable" -- Vince is the "good." Today, in taking a look at some of the most immediately discernible guitar riffs of the 2000s, I want to stress that just because Metallica or Mastodon aren't on this list doesn't mean they can't still write the crunchiest of motherf*cking riffs (they can); it's because nothing, for instance, Metallica has released this century is as rapidly perceptible to the general listening public as what Muse put to the tape back in 2001. Though the Muse riff is great.

The Wolverine opens in fewer than two weeks, but we feel as though we’ve seen it already after the many trailers, clips, and featurettes released so far. Now Fox has released four more clips for us to nervously watch while muttering, “please don’t suck, please don’t suck“. It isn’t exactly reassuring that the Viper takes off the same glove twice in the last clip. As for the other clips, they show the meeting of Wolverine and Harada (The Silver Samurai), the meeting of Wolverine and Yukio (dude loves to meet new and interesting people), and what we assume is a nightmare sequence involving Jean Grey. Am I supposed to laugh at that Jean Grey clip? Were they trying to make it not seem cheesy? To quote Jean Grey, it’s too late.

These days its rare to find a celebrity who hasn’t undergone some form of plastic surgery, from tummy tuck, breast implants, facelift, nose jobs and eyebrow lifts are part and parcel of our ongoing question to remain youthful. But back at the beginning of the 20th century, whilst the desire for everlasting youth and enduring beauty were a constant, it certainly took a vastly different form. During the 1900′s-1920′s, individuals continued to be heavily influenced by Victorian societies belief that it was simply your ‘duty’ as a woman to look beautiful. It wasn’t a choice, it was a lifestyle, one which had an entire industry of tools, devices and machines designed to help you keep up with others expectations. And it was those ‘beauty treatments’ that continued to be peddled and pushed to whole new generation of consumers at the beginning of the 20th century. And whilst these days women might dabble in facial scrubs, cucumber eye patches and the occasional Botox injection – their predecessors had to endure all manner of wacky devices with the sole aim of conforming to the superficial and transient whims of their peers. It’s a peculiar look into our past and our enduring obsession with perfection.

Created by world-renowned illustrator David Lloyd but launched into the mainstream conscious via the V for Vendetta movie is the infamous ‘Anonymous’ mask. A modern day symbol of global protest and discontent around the world. Interestingly enough the mask itself its Lloyd’s artistic interpretation not of a mythical character, but a very real individual by the name of Guy Fawkes. A man who is a controversial as he is celebrated.

During the course of his lifetime (1881-1952) Sergey Dmitrievich Merkurov became known as THE master of the monumentalist sculptor during the Soviet era. It certainly helped that Joseph Stalin was his biggest supporter, Merkurov produced three of the largest monuments of the dictator, the biggest stood a staggering 160ft tall in Erevan. Along with creating propaganda for the government, he was give the title of ‘People’s Artist of the USSR’ and was even made director at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. But like many artists, he was multi-disciplined and multi-faceted, away from chipping away at marble and stone – he found the time to produce a rather unorthodox alphabet book composed entirely of pornographic images. That’s right, a porno alphabet. Complete with Satan having an orgy. Why? Who knows? And whilst the subject matter is certainly puzzling, the watercolour illustrations themselves masterfully painted and carefully illustrated. The books existence is unique exposé of a man best known for his hammer and chisel, than his brush, inks and devious sexual appetite. We reckon Stalin would have approved though, don’t you?

Feast your eyes on this! This slightly disturbing drawing is the cover of the forthcoming Paula Deen biography from Bluewater Comics. Bluewater specializes in unauthorized bios of celebrities, and now seems as good a time as any (just kidding, it’s actually the best time) to do an unauthorized biography comic of Paula Deen. We don’t know what the story will be (presumably it depicts her rise to America’s premiere pusher of lard), but hopefully the entire thing will be at least as off-putting as this image of Deen’s disembodied head popping out of a tub of butter. Those eyes. Those terrifying, vacant eyes.

They're hilarious too! The NY Times has an excellent profile of Jack Handey, the former ‘SNL‘ writer who created the absurdly hilarious ‘Deep Thoughts’ series. Anyone who watched ‘SNL’ during the ’90s will remember these brief non-sequiturs that aired between sketches. Unlike most of what’s on ‘SNL,’ ‘Deep Thoughts’ didn’t rely on topical references and therefore doesn’t feel dated decades later. The lack of a face attached to the words, and the fact that his name sounds made up to begin with, led many to believe that Jack Handey was a character created by the ‘SNL’ writing staff. The truth is Handey is a real person who wrote for ‘SNL’ from 1985 to 2002. (He had previously written for Lorne Michaels’ short-lived sketch show ‘The New Show’ and for pal Steve Martin’s TV specials.) During his time at ‘SNL,’ Handey also created such memorable sketches as ‘Toones, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car‘ and the brilliant ‘Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer’ played by Phil Hartman. (The latter is a perfect example of Handey’s knack for mixing the absurd with the mundane.) He’s also an author, having penned several ‘Deep Thoughts’ collections and the new novel ‘The Stench of Honolulu.’ While the ‘Deep Thoughts’ books are a bit tough to track down these days, we thankfully have Hulu to remind us of Handey’s genius. The site has compiled a playlist of 50 ‘Deep Thoughts’ along with a few of Handey’s lesser known ‘Fuzzy Memories.’ Watching ‘Deep Thoughts’ today, it’s interesting how Handey’s offbeat one-liners predicted everything from Twitter to the bizarre anti-humor of Adult Swim. It’s not hard to imagine a joke like “If God dwells inside us, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that’s what He’s getting!” being retweeted multiple times. Some of the best minds on Twitter, like Boobs Radley and Megan Amram, carry on Handey’s tradition of creating perfectly crafted, often absurdist one-liners. It’s too bad Handey (who is 64 for any children of the ’90s who want to feel old) isn’t Tweeting out new ‘Deep Thoughts’ for a generation who thinks quick, random humor on ‘SNL’ begins and ends with the digital shorts.

Italian illustrator Alessandro Diddi erases the line between fiction and reality and makes his 3D drawings leap out of the sheet of paper. Besides light and shadow effects, Alessandro also uses various props, his own hands and even the very pencil he draws with to make his anamorphic drawings come alive when viewed from a certain angle. “I want my drawings to put across the message that the eye can trick the mind and make you believe that there are dimensions that are not really there,” says Alessandro. The artist also stresses that it isn’t ”necessary to consume a large amount of resources to achieve something interesting. All you need is a pencil and something to draw on, and you can create something really magical.” And his work certainly proves his words!

There are all kinds of daredevil photographers in the world, from those who like incredible heights to the fearless pursuers of extreme sports. And now, add Hawaii-based photographer Kawika Singson to this list of adventurers. Generally a landscape photographer, Singson has never been afraid of a little heat. He has spent years traveling all around Hawaii to document volcanoes and up-close perspectives of hot lava as it flows around in glowing swirls.

«Lagos Calling» - this is one of the most powerful Clayton Cubitt projects, in which the famous American fashion-photographer of African skinhead fashion shows early 1970th.