Firebox has released a creepy Monkey Brain Bowl that you can eat food and chilled monkey brains out of or recreating the famous dinner scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Yummy! The Monkey Brain Bowl, which comes equipped with a skull cap lid to keep food cold or hot, is available to purchase online.

So why not liven up meal times with this Monkey Brains Bowl and scoop chilled cerebral delicacies straight from its hairy gaping cranium. If this fine piece of severed simian storage is good enough for his Supreme Highness, the Maharajah of Pankot (and he knew how to party), then it’s certainly good enough for you. You can fill it with all sorts of exotic delights like crispy Coleoptera beetles, Eye-ball soup and “Snake Surprise” …or something more boring, like cornflakes.

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“Baba” is an animated short by music video director Joel Kefali based on interviews with his grandfather, Sol, who immigrated to New Zealand from Turkey in 1951. The film features snippets of conversations to paint a picture of what the country was like when the 84-year-old first moved there.

“When I came to New Zealand, I used to eat so many sausage rolls, but they used to make a nice, homemade sausage roll. Not a factory one.”

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"The Beast Inside" is a short animated documentary directed by Drew Christie and Amy Enser for the Seattle University Project on Family Homelessness that follows the real-life struggles of a homeless teenager named Tilawn. The short combines Tilawn’s rapping and narration with hand-drawn animation. It’s part of the American Refugees film series, a project funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that is aimed at raising awareness of homelessness.

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The five Denmark-based members of The Bottle Boys recently performed a fantastic cover of the hit 1982 song “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson using beer bottles as instruments. We’ve previously written about their mashup of hip-hop songs and cover of “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid.

We are so excited for this one, because we simply just LOVE Michael Jackson. Billie Jean is a really great song and it is perfect for trying out our new technique: double bottle playing. The dentists don’t recommend this we can assure! ;-D

It’s lonely being right.

“Actually Guy” is a video by Slacktory featuring editor Nick Douglas constantly correcting common misconceptions like the length of a goldfish’s memory while talking about how lonely he is.

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After witnessing the ancient mosaics of Pompeii, Chicago-based artist Jim Bachor was inspired to create his own mosaic art with a modern twist. He’s created all manner of portraits and pop culture imagery out of colorful tiles, but in 2013 he found a new application. He’s been filling in potholes in Chicago with mosaics. The mosaics are based on the design of the Chicago flag (white and blue stripes with red stars) and feature fake serial numbers or the word “Pothole.” He’s posted the addresses of his pothole mosaics on his site.

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"Octopuses of the Night" is a short film by Utah-based filmmaker Dustin Adamson that features fascinating footage of octopi playfully exploring with the seafloor. The images of the brightly lit cephalopods were captured by Adamson during night dives off the coast of the Philippines.

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In his TED Talk, "How I Started Writing Songs Again," former Police frontman Sting discusses how returning to his hometown of Wallsend in the Northeast of England helped the singer end a particularly bad bought of writer’s block that stretched over several years.

If you can't write about yourself anymore, then who do you write about? It's ironic that the landscape I'd work so hard to escape from and the community that I'd more or less abandoned should be the very landscape I'd have to return to to find my missing muse. As soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, the songs came thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting.

Domino artist Hevesh5 created this mind-bogglingly elaborate setup of 22,000 dominoes as a thank you to his 200,000 YouTube channel subscribers. The setup took 25 hours to build and less than 3 minutes to fall down.

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Photo Republic is an app by developer Ketchup Inc. that tasks users with taking a photograph once a day at the same time. For example, the app might task users with taking a photograph of something shiny or taking a photograph at something in front of them, and then it displays the photographs submitted in real-time as they come in. Photo Republic is currently available on iOS and Android.

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Miami-based artist Brian Reedy has created WoodcutEmporium, an Etsy shop featuring intricate woodcuts based on characters from comics, science fiction, and popular Internet memes. Included among the current offerings are woodblocks featuring Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine, a samurai version of Darth Vader, and a portrait of Grumpy Cat.

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Castor is a new line of "gourmet" toothpicks by Montreal food lab PhoodStation that combine two flavors on single stick for a more complex experience than standard flavored toothpicks. The 'gastronomic flavor paired' toothpicks feature a powder coated tip and a longer lasting base to create 10 different flavor combinations, including habanero and honey, bacon and maple and raspberry and wasabi. The company has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring the product to market, which also features a brief history of the toothpick.

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Created by four inventors from a Mors, a small island in Northern Denmark, the eCool is a hand-cranked beer cooler that resides largely underground, using the naturally cooling effects of soil to lower the temperature of the cans inside. When you want a beer, turn the handle on the electricity-free unit, until a can emerges on the conveyor belt from its subterranean chamber. Installing the cooler requires some landscaping tools and a bit of manual labor.

It's advised to use a garden drill, but can be installed with a shovel as well, if you're a real man. The earth cooler’s top is very well isolated and maintains about the same cooled temperature throughout the whole container.

The eCool also protects the 24 cans inside its chamber from frost during the colder months of the year.

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Sulo Karjalainen, the proprietor of Kuusamo Large Carnivore Centre in Kuusamo, Finland, has become locally famous as the “bearman” due to the incredibly close bond he has with the fully grown black bears that he raised from tiny cubs.

The 73-year-old runs Kuusamo Large Carnivore Centre with his brother Jalo, which has been home to more than 20 orphaned brown bears. After working on a research project studying Finnish carnivores, Sulo was asked if he would mind taking in some cubs. And over the years a deep bond has grown up between Sulo and his furry companions.

Nintendo has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz to offer the all-new GLA-class SUV as a free downloadable kart for the Japan release of Mario Kart 8. Mercedes-Benz also released an interactive Japanese website and a bizarre commercial that features Mario driving in a GLA-class SUV through the first stage of the classic 8-bit NES Super Mario Bros. video game. The commercial has quite a surprise ending.

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YouTuber user Majami Hiroz has created an animation reimagining the video game Grand Theft Auto V by Rockstar Games as a Commodore 64 video game.

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Scottish artist Alasdair Thompson‘s current series “The Identity Collection” features breezy romantic clothing that has been sculpted from gorgeous Carrera marble. Each “garment” is modeled after donations from family and friends in an exploration of combining the ethereal nature of fabric with the cold weight of stone.

Through his current series of sculptures, Alasdair is exploring the way fabric hangs and folds, and is attempting to capture that lighness and gracefulness in stone. Named ‘The Identity Collection’, his recent sculptures are carved copies of garments donated by his friends and family. Seeking to capture the characters of those he invited to donate, he surrendered the control of the content of the series by allowing others to submit garments of their choosing for him to carve. The results are simple and understated, as well as timeless and nostalgic. – OnForm Sculpture In Stone

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Windy is a relaxation app by Taptanium in partnership with acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton featuring the sound of real wind rather than artificial white noise or fans. The winds included were recorded at a variety of different locations to provide a number of experiences, and the backgrounds provided were painted by environmental illustrator Marie Beschorner.

Windy is currently available on iOS.

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“Rooming Late with Scott Rogowsky” is a series of videos featuring people that responded to a Craigslist ad for a roommate posted by host Scott Rogowsky. Rogowsky decided to set his Brooklyn apartment up like a talk show studio and film the various applicants after they arrived with a little help from Gilbert Gottfried, Andrew W.K., and Michael Gregory of The Gregory Brothers.

Scott Rogowsky also hosts an actual talk show called Running Late with Scott Rogowsky.

Ep. 1: Stephen from D.C.

Ep. 2: Eli from Illinois

Ep. 3: Anam from Brooklyn

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During his preschool graduation speech, adorable five-year-old Jathan Muhar announced to everyone in the crowd that he wanted to grow up to be Batman. Not a doctor or lawyer, but a bad ass crime-fighting superhero.

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