This is a “sunken” bridge, located in the Netherlands that gives the incredible perspective of walking through parted water. The bridge gives access to a 17th Century fort, which has long been protected by a shallow moat.

It was designed by RO & AD Architects and uses a type of modified wood called Accoya wood, which offers increased durability against something like water.

Apparently from afar, it appears as if there’s nothing in the water, and you only see it once up close. I love that you can reach over and touch the water. There must not be too many issues with the water level increasing, otherwise they might not have gone with this idea. Very cool!

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I enjoyed this video and song by Australian musician Hudson. Very cute and colourful!

I think this video by Andrew Clancy is absolutely beautiful.

I spent five short days in New York with Grant a few years ago, and this video just reminds me of what an incredibly impressive city it is. I want to go back.

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(The song choice is also wonderful. “We Don’t Eat” by James Vincent McMorrow).

I’ve always used Snopes as my website du jour for finding out whether something is bunk (and just how long it’s been circulating).

But now there’s  Is It Old?, where you just input the link you want to share with your friends, and they’ll let you know whether or not you were about to make a fool of yourself.

I input the URL for Is It Old? (meta!) and my result was “Mad Fresh! Regardless of how old this link is, it’s ALWAYS worth sharing!”

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Dads are the Original Hipsters.

You know all those things hipsters seem to love? Moustaches, Pabst Blue Ribbon, bow ties? Dad was rocking those things before you were even a thought.

This guy got a ticket for not riding his bike in the designated bike lane, which, as he shows us, is not always the safest thing to do.

Kudos to this guy for almost severely injuring himself for the benefit of us all. It’s a good thing he knows how to duck and roll. He does raise a pretty good point though: how are cyclists supposed to abide by the rules if there are people actively blocking them? If there were garbage cans, or people parked in the middle of a busy street in Brandon, there would be hell to pay.

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Yes, the band.

I loved Bad Company in high school. Their first, self-titled album (on cassette!) was a mainstay for me. I think it was actually my step-dad’s, which I pilfered for my own enjoyment.

The jukebox was playing “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” which is of course awesome, but I’ve always been partial to “Bad Company.” So bad ass.

It’s a sunny day today, a welcome change to the cloudiness that’s been pervading. The wind is still blowing like crazy, and it’s not all that warm for being the middle of May, but it’s sunny.

To celebrate the sun, I wanted the Saturday Song to be a sunny song. I was perusing my song catalogue and came across “Everyday” by Vetiver, which is a pretty sunny song, but it immediately made me thing of another “Everyday” song, this time by Rogue Wave.

Everyday – Rogue Wave

Isn’t that fun? It’s a Buddy Holly cover, which I actually first heard on the soundtrack for Stubbs the Zombie. Yeah. A video game. But all the songs are awesome covers of 50s and 60s songs. It’s pretty great actually.

There is an epidemic sweeping the nation, and it is called Girls Leaving the House Pantless Syndrome.

GLHP is affecting many girls, so now there is this handy flow chart to help you figure out if you are indeed leaving the house pantless.

Together, we can end GLHP forever.

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This short from Wong Fu Productions is a pretty hilarious look at the kinds of racial stereotypes that still exist in the world. If you can’t beat it, make a joke about it!

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Any photographers out there who have been in the game for awhile will probably have (or had) a film camera. And with film cameras, comes film, and pages and pages of negatives.

Personally, I have a whole box full of them. They’re all digitized now, but it’s hard to get rid of negatives, you know, just in case.

Which brings us to the above picture. Instead of throwing away those old negatives, you can make a really cool lamp out of them!

Over at the craft website Poopscape, there’s a detailed explanation on how to make this, with basically a $10 lamp and some glue. Very neat! And very easy, too.

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Boy & Bear are an indie-folk group from Australia, who released their EP With Emperor Antarctica in 2009.

The quintet has a harmonic similarity to Fleet Foxes, although with a little more edge in their music. I’m reminded of Mumford & Sons, who they have actually played with in the past. I particularly like their song, “Mexican Mavis.”

Boy & Bear – Mexican Mavis

I think they are definitely a band to watch, and I’ll be really interested to hear what they have to offer on a full-length album.

This video perplexes me. Where are they, and WHY DO THEY HAVE A TIGER.

It’s hilarious that the dogs are hopping around, giving little bites, and the tiger just lazily swipes at them with its GIANT PAW.

And towards the end, there’s a “Beware of Cat” sign. Holy understatement, Batman.

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Hey everybody, Happy Good Friday to you! I sort of feel weird saying that, considering I’m not particularly religious, and all Easter really means for me is chocolate and bunny rabbits, but I digress.

A time-honoured tradition (in some places) of Easter is having the kiddies go on an Easter egg hunt. You know, they grab their little baskets, and look for the pretty coloured eggs, often hidden in a park or something. I’ve never done it in this way, per se; my mom would hide those little foil-wrapped chocolate eggs around the house for me to find Easter Sunday. She could get pretty clever, so clever that even she would forget where she hid them, and we’d often find eggs some six months later.

But if you want to be traditional, and go with real, hard-boiled eggs for your little ones to find, than this Serious Eats post is perfect for you. It describes (in great detail) just how to get the perfect hard-boiled egg.

Then the trick is painting them. This post, again, goes into great detail about the ways in which you can paint eggs. It also goes into how to blow out the yolks, which will make the eggs keep longer.

Good luck if you’re going to be painting real eggs this weekend! I’ll probably just buy the chocolate ones.