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Calling Chocoholics Anonymous: Now You Can Drink Chocolate Stout from this Chocolate Glass

By Hazel Chua on 02/28/13 • Leave a comment!

Chocolate Beer and Glass

Beer and chocolate make for a surprisingly delicious combination. It might not sound very appealing, but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. Because once you have, I swear, you’ll be coming back for more. Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen is well aware of this, since they’ve been producing chocolate flavored stout for a while now.

However, they’ve decided to take things a notch further by offering a set that includes a bottle of their best-selling chocolate stout and an edible chocolate glass. Beer and chocolate aficionados are supposed to pour the stout into the glass and enjoy the flavorful drink while taking a few bites of chocolate in between.

Rocket News 24 asserts that the glass could counteract the bitterness of the “ultra-dark beer’ which was brewed “with over twice the ingredients of your average dark beer including roasted ‘chocolate malt.’”

VIA [ Food Beast ]

An Unusual Dessert: Japanese Condom/Boob Ice Cream

By Hazel Chua on 02/22/13 • Leave a comment!

Condom Ice Cream

Ever wondered what condom ice cream tastes like? Then wonder no more, because now you can taste it for yourself–if you can get your hands on a Japanese frozen dessert called Gomu Yokki Aisu, that is. (That’s translates to ‘Ice Cream Filled Rubber’ in English, but it’s not being marketed as a condom ice cream in Japan. In my opinion (which many others share, including Youtuber emmymadeinjapan), it looks more like a boob anyway, and ice cream company Kubota agrees, since they used the same packaging as the former and called it Oppai Aisu or ‘Boob Ice.’

Gomu Yokki Aisu has been available for quite a while now, although the Japanese never really thought of it in that way (bless their minds!) until a Canadian exchange student ruined the perky icy treat for the whole nation by posting a review calling it ‘condom ice cream.’

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Atlanta Police Use Facebook To Inform Mother Of Her Son’s Passing

By David Ponce on 02/21/13 • Leave a comment!

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On January 24 at around 11pm, Rickie Lamb of Clayton County, Atlanta, was fatally hit by a car as he was crossing the street. It then took the family almost a month to find out about it because of the police department’s bizarre use of Facebook. The department first allegedly tried to contact his next of kin through “conventional methods” but were unsuccessful. So they sent Rickie’s mother and sister a message on Facebook, telling them to call back urgently. The problem was that the police was using an account under the name “Misty Hancock” with rapper T.I. as the profile picture, and since they weren’t friends with the mother of the deceased, their message ended up in the “Other” folder of Facebook’s messaging system. Which is where it sat for a few days, until Anna Lamb-Creasey (the mother) thought of checking there. But even then, she didn’t call the number provided because of the strange name and profile picture. It took a full 20 days until Rickie’s sister, in desperation, decided to try the number just to see. Sure enough, that’s when the officers gave them the bad news.

“They told me that they did the best that they can do. But I’m not sure about that. (Because) if they can track a criminal down, they couldn’t track me down? They could have done better,” she said, in tears. “I’ve been on my job 13 years. They could have found me.”

The police insist they repeatedly tried to contact the family through conventional means and are looking into why that account was used, versus a more official one.

[ Atlanta Journal Constitution ] VIA [ Ubergizmo ]

Enterprising Driver Attempts Spectacular Vehicle-ception, Is Foiled By Spoilsport Traffic Cop

By David Ponce on 02/20/13 • 1 Comment

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The above picture is that of a truck driven by a Polish driver, carrying another truck, in turn carrying a smaller truck, on top of which is stacked a car. It’s a beautiful example of human ingenuity, and would have become a very efficient delivery operation had it not been forcefully aborted by a German cop who decided to actually stick to road regulations. Regulations are suggestions, everyone knows that! We’re a little disappointed at the outcome, but impressed by the attempt:

On the road, the officers stopped the breakdown field daredevil transport (on the way to Belgium). On the Iveco car carrier (1) there was a large truck (2, on the deck again, a smaller VW MAN truck (3 And on the deck one Mercedes (4)!

Police spokesman Acor Kniely: “This tower contradicted all road traffic legislation. Especially as he to make matters worse the trailer still wanted to charge another truck! “

VIA [ BoingBoing ]

Teen Takes $200 From Her Dad To “Get Off Facebook”

By David Ponce on 02/07/13 • 1 Comment

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There’s a story being reported online about a teen in Wellesley, Massachussets, who allegedly accepted $200 from her father to get off Facebook. We… think the father just got conned. The narrative goes that Paul Baier’s 14 year old daughter was having trouble finding babysitting jobs and one day turned to her dad and said “Dad, would you pay me to get off Facebook?” After explaining to him that she was finding it distracting from her school work, and managing to convince the poor man that she was “being responsible”, Baier agreed to the deal, doling out the money in increments, with the final payment coinciding with the end of the school year. She is, after all, an honor student, and this would allow her to focus on her studies…

“She turns it on, she’ll have 30 to 40, [even] 50 little alerts things popping up,” Baier said.

“It’s a responsible thing for her to do. Moderation is very good and [Facebook] in extreme, can be dangerous,”

Of course no one ever said that honor students were stupid, and we’re firmly convinced that at best, all that Paul Baier’s daughter has succeeded in doing is blocking her father and all his friends and relatives, and gotten away with $200 for the effort. At worst, this is a pretty sad attempt at getting press attention from the both of them; someone, after all, had to contact the media to tell this story.

[ 7News WHDH ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

New Zealand Mint’s ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Transformers’ Coins, Minting Soon!

By Hazel Chua on 01/31/13 • Leave a comment!

Doctor Who Coin

It’s true that there are many things that money can’t buy, but one thing that it can buy is money. Not necessarily more money, but it would be currency in a more desirable form. That might sound a little bit confusing, so let me clear it up for you by saying three words: Doctor Who and Transformers.

These highly successful and wildly popular franchises are huge money makers, and now they’re going to be turned into actual money by the New Zealand Mint. You might remember the Star Wars and Hobbit coins they released in previous years, which were all kinds of awesome. Now they’re giving Doctor Who and the old school versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron the same treatment as these three entities are going to be minted into commemorative $2 coins that are going to be sold for way more than the face value of the coin: Doctor Who will be priced at $155, while the 2-coin Transformers set will go for $280.

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Man Puts Himself Up For ‘Sale’ on Amazon–His Asking Price? A Job!

By Hazel Chua on 01/30/13 • Leave a comment!

This is Philippe Dubost, and he’s putting himself up for sale on Amazon. At least, that’s what he made it look like anyway.

What you see above is a screenshot of Philippe’s resume, and it’s definitely one of the most creative ones we’ve seen so far. He’s a web product manager, so it make sense that he’d choose this medium to show off his skills and qualifications. Obviously, the listing isn’t really up on Amazon (I’m sure they wouldn’t allow it anyway). Rather, it’s hosted on Philippe’s own domain, and he’s dubbed the page as an ‘Amaz-ing Resume’. Amaz-ing…get it?… Continue Reading

Love Her? Then Eat Her: Japanese Cafe Molds Chocolate Into Women’s Faces

By Hazel Chua on 01/28/13 • Leave a comment!

Chocolate Face

Does your chocolate have a face? And by face, we’re talking about the face of your significant other and not that of some random cartoon character or superhero. Chances are, it doesn’t, because these molded chocolate balls are only available from Shibuya’s FabCafe. They’re holding an event where female attendees can have their faces scanned so that molds of it can then be printed. The molds are filled with chocolate, and once it hardens, voila: they’ll have a handful of balls with their faces imprinted on each one.

Just in time for Valentine’s!

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Not For the Sqeamish: This $470,000 Ring is Covered With Actual Human Skin

By Hazel Chua on 01/25/13 • Leave a comment!

Skin Ring

There’s a fine line between an ingenious design and an oddly disgusting one. I think Sruli Recht‘s ‘Forget Me Knot’ ring leans toward the latter, but you be the judge. It’s a truly unique ring in the sense that it has a small strip of Recht’s actual skin mounted on the exterior. I kid you not; the designer actually had a 4 inch by 0.4 inch piece of skin sliced off from his abdomen to cover the 24-karat gold band.

After Recht’s skin was removed, it was tanned and then mounted to the ring, with all his tummy hairs intact. To reassure potential buyers that they’re truly getting a piece of Recht with the ring, it will be sold with a DNA certificate and come bundled with a DVD documenting the entire process.

The price? $470,000. You can hit the break for a graphic video showing the ring’s creation, although I would advise against it if you’re the squeamish type.

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