Cartoon Of The Day

Bed Bugs

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Don't doze off just yet. Maybe they should be called bed blood bugs, an army of these can attack a person 500 times in one night!

How To Of The Day: How To Reheat Pizza

Hate leftover pizza's reheated soggy crust? This simple reheating tip keeps the crust crispy, and the top nice and melty.

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Wallpaper Of The Day

Random Riddle

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What's something a builder builds, a buyer buys but doesn't use, something the user uses but doesn't know he or she uses?

Joke Of The Day

Q: What has four asses?

A: Eight half assed politicians.

Cartoon Of The Day

The Ruins of Detroit

"What is the one constant in Detroit, all of these years? It's been run by liberals. Liberal ideology. Liberal economics. Liberal belief system. Detroit, other places: A microcosm of where Europe is, and where we are headed — unchecked, unstopped liberalism. For those of you who like the Democrat Party, that’s where we are headed. There hasn’t been any opposition there, not of any strength or power. Take a look. That’s the one thing that is constant. It was the same thing in New Orleans, post-Katrina. What’s the one thing that was constant there? All run by liberals. All run by Democrats." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Detroit, industrial capital of the XXth Century, played a fundamental role shaping the modern world. The logic that created the city also destroyed it. Nowadays, unlike anywhere else, the city’s ruins are not isolated details in the urban environment. They have become a natural component of the landscape. Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire.

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Toaster Help

If you are one of those people that always burns the toast, this may help.

Italian Artist Paints with Wine

Wine has been the inspiration of many famous painters throughout the centuries, but Florentine artist Elisabetta Rogai is taking the relationship between the drink of Dionysus and art to a whole new level, by using wine as paint.

Can a painting truly age? The concept was first explored English writer Oscar Wilde, in his book, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, and now, over a century later, it’s taking a new meaning in the work of Elisabetta Rogai. The Italian painter uses only white and red wine, with no other chemical additives, to create beautiful paintings. This “allows the wine to reproduce on the canvas exactly the same process of ageing that normally takes place inside the bottle,” she explains, adding that “the wine aging, which normally occurs over the years, takes only a few months on the canvas.” The difference between a freshly painted artwork and a three-months-old one is clearly visible; the texture changes and the colors evolve from young purples and cherry reds to more mature tones of amber, orange and brown. Unlike the portrait of Dorian Gray, her works become more beautiful with time.

But Elisabetta Rogai wasn’t the first artist to try and paint with wine. Many others have tried before her, but the results were less than satisfactory, due to a variety of factors. The challenge of removing alcohol through Reverse Osmosis, the density of the wine, chromatic scale limitation, the volatility of alcohol and the possibility of working only on small canvases have been the main reasons why most painters gave up on the idea of using wine as paint. Elisabetta Rogai herself admits it took a long period of research and experimentation, and help from the University of Florence to develop her wine paintings, but the results were definitely worth it. Although she uses regular bottled wine for her paintings she also takes bottles of wine to the Florence University laboratory for processing, and takes home a gooey residue with a texture similar to oil paints.

To keep the aging of the wine going on on indefinitely, until the colors fade almost completely, Elisabetta Rogai has created a natural color fixating system based on water and flour. This leaves the hues unchanged but prevents colors from fading over a certain threshold. Her wine paintings are available for prices starting at € 5,000 ($6,400).

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Random Riddle

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A woman from New York married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of these men died, and she never divorced.

How was this possible?

Joke Of The Day

Q: Where do you find a no legged dog?

A: Right where you left him.