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Giant portrait of Beyonce made from 3780 Oreo Pops

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Friday 7 June 2013

After eight hours of painstaking work, Michelle Wibowo has created the first ever Oreo Pop portrait of Beyonce. In case you aren’t dessert savvy, Oreo Pops are Oreo cookies and Philadelphia cream mixed together to form little packages of perfection.

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World Goth Day: dead is the new alive

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Thursday 6 June 2013

Just two days after World Pot Day, a lesser known holiday, World Goth Day, is celebrated. With special Goth awards and festivities, the holiday is exactly what it sounds like. Check out the official website to see who won best 80s Goth band or best Goth Model this year.

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Robin isn’t allowed to ride in the new the new Batmobile Lamborghini

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Wednesday 5 June 2013

Lamborghini unveiled this sleek new car that bears a striking resemblance to the iconic Batmobile. Revealed at the auto maker’s 50th birthday party, the car seems to be a little birthday present to itself. It’s a ridiculously beautiful, high performance car that doesn’t leave room for a passenger. As strange and egotistic as that may seem, it’s true. The car can [...]

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Periodic Table of the Presidents

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 5 June 2013

An eighth grade social studies teacher has created the Periodic Table of the Presidents, ordered by their presidential numbers and grouped by historical eras. Each president’s cell is color-coded according to his political party (Republican presidents are red and Democratic presidents are blue), and each cell includes the president’s name, number, unique name abbreviation, number [...]

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Does Barbie deserve a 10,000-square-foot monument in Florida?

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Wednesday 5 June 2013

Though the opening of Barbie’s life-sized Dreamhouse in Germany attracted many feminists to protest the sexist nature of the Barbie brand, no such opposition arose when the American version opened in Florida. Does the younger generation consider Barbie and her Dreamhouse to be as real as Thomas Jefferson and Mount Vernon? The sheer number of people who [...]

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Go sailing on your bike with members of the Aeolian Ride

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Wednesday 5 June 2013

Several times a year, this gang of bikers assemble to take over the streets of a city. But unlike most biker gangs, these guys aren’t out to spread terror and chaos. Participants of the Aeolian Ride only wish to spread smiles across your face. These guys ride circles around a city while wearing hilarious sail contraptions that [...]

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Ronald McDonald as The Joker

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Why didn’t we think of this earlier? Here’s an unnamed cosplayer at this year’s FanimeCon in San Jose as a mashup of a Heath Ledger-styled Joker and Ronald McDonald, photographed by Seattle-based photographer David Ngo. And the only common ground we thought the Joker and old Ronald had were for being clowns. Not sure what [...]

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Is there life in outer space? Here comes Mars Rat

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Some hawk-eyed folks recently spotted a decidedly rat-like critter in a photo taken in September last year by the Curiosity Rover. It’s really a rock. I guess it would make a pretty good pet rock. Some fans have set up a Twitter account for it with the appropriately dire warning ‘People of Earth. You found [...]

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Roaches go sugar-free to stay fit (and alive)

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Cockroaches, apparently, are evolving so quickly, they’re skirting around sugar like the plague. Blame us humans for trying the same trick one time too many with sugar traps. This revelation came about when a team of scientists from North Carolina State University’s recently study on a strain of European roaches had them observed the roaches [...]

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Now you can ask for beer using your flipflops

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Relaxing just got a whole lot easier now that you can ask for a drink just by walking through the sand. Your next beach trip won’t be complete without these custom flipflops. With each step, you leave a subtle message in the sand that says, “follow me, bring beer”. Seriously, what could be better?

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Anti-cheating ring stamps a message on your spouse

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Listen up all you suspicious married folk: next time your spouse leaves on a business trip, you can be confident they won’t be cheating on you with this clever anti-cheating ring. How does it work? Well, if a seductive charmer tries to put the moves on the person wearing the ring by taking the ring off their finger, the imprinted message “I’m married” is revealed on the skin of the wearer.

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Ex-Groupon CEO writes business inspiration rock

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Tuesday 4 June 2013

Andrew Mason is recording his first album, Hardly Workin’, ‘a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce’. For quite a while, Mason had the job of managing over 12,000 people at Groupon. Most of those people were under 25 and had no clue when it came to basic business [...]

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President Putin solves road congestion by helicopter commuting

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Trends on Saturday 1 June 2013

President Vladimir Putin is fed up with bad traffic. So the man decided to solve the issue by commuting to work via helicopter. Why helicopter? One, because the huge motor parade lead by his Mercede’s limousine  causes terrible traffic congestion. The people of Russia were so infuriated by this daily traffic jam that they began [...]

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Man card: Gives you irrevocable manliness

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 1 June 2013

A guy who’s tired of having his manliness questioned by other guys has gone ahead to start his own tongue-in-cheek creation for situations when bros question bros: the Man card. Yes, this stainless steel-etched card is perfect for a man to flash in defense whenever he goes against the traditional masculine grain and confesses to [...]

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Tactical BBQ apron

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 1 June 2013

Gaming transforms lives. It can transform the way you barbeque corn cobs, for instance. The Call of Duty-inspired Tactical Apron has the word ‘Chef’ emblazoned behind it, and has a MOLLE system for anyone cooking up some grease to feel like he’s totally owning the BBQ pit.

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