Without a doubt, the strangest Nintendo Switch rumor to surface in recent months revolved around a crossover between Super Mario characters and Ubisoft’s screaming Rabbids mascots. It was doubted, argued over and eventually, all but confirmed by leak…
We love to make LEGO builds around here, but when an aerospace engineer plays with LEGO, he makes them fly. I’m talking about engineer Adam Woodworth, who made his LEGO Space Shuttle lift off.
Set #1682, aka Space Shuttle Launch, was released way back in 1990. It is a a classic. But actual LEGO blocks aren’t exactly lightweight, so Adam rebuilt the entire set from scratch, using foam blocks. Check it out in action:
The frame is made from one-millimeter foam and weighs about 2.5 grams. He made the LEGO studs on top using a hole punch and then gluing each one in place so that it is light enough to take off with three tiny propellers on its underside.
Seriously, I can’t wait for LEGO to offer some sets that fly, because this is awesome.
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Kylie Jenner is in hot water again.
The 19-year-old reality star and businesswoman is being accused of stealing designs from another brand, and they’re similar to accusations recently brought against her sister, Khloe Kardashian.
Last week, Jenner released new camouflage clothing, swimsuits and accessories that looked similar to PluggedNYC designs, a brand that the reality star has worn before.
Below are some items from Kylie’s newest release:
PluggedNYC’s creative director, Tizita Balemlay, called out Jenner and her family via Instagram and compared the two’s clothing:
“When you really Pablo… I am the influence *drops mic Copy & Paste down to the shoes I used on my models The kardashains will take your nigga & brand I stamp lmfaooo #WeAreTheCulture,” Balemlay wrote.
Another Twitter user posted screenshots of an email exchange that apparently show an exchange between PluggedNYC and Jenner’s people:
In an interview with Buzzfeed, Balemlay confirmed she’d communicated with Jenner’s stylist and sent Jenner pieces from her line:
Back in April, PluggedNYC posted photos of Jenner in the clothing, even writing, “@kyliejenner welcome to the #pluggedarmy.”
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“At the end of the day money equals power and the Kardashians have that power. This is a prime example,” Balemlay said in her interview with Buzzfeed. “I don’t have the buzz she does or the money for billboards.”
On Instagram, Balemlay also addressed critics who didn’t understand the controversy over the camouflage clothing ― a pattern that’s been used by the military and many other brands before.
“Them: Did you invent Camo,” she wrote. “Me: Nope, but I sure as hell brought it back to life and pushed the two piece Camo movement. I can’t remember one BRAND that sold matching Camo two pieces that weren’t generic tees with cargo for ladies before my brand, unless it was custom.”
Balemlay added, “But hey… money is power smh I started my brand with pennies funny how someone can just take a whole movement bc of how much money and power they have.”
HuffPost has reached out to reps for Kylie Jenner and PluggedNYC.
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Another great mystery of air travel is solved.
There’s a fascinating explanation for those giant numbers and letters you see on the ends of airport runways: They provide some very handy direction for pilots, as explained in the video above from Business Insider.
The numbers are always between 1 and 36, and the difference between the numbers on either end of the same runway is always 18. Sometimes, they’re followed by a letter with a meaning all its own, and sometimes, they change based on the earth’s magnetic north.
Watch above for the riveting rundown.
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The gender pay gap is still a very real thing. According to data, women earn “90 percent as much as men at age 25 and about 55 percent as much at age 45.”
In total, this equals out to a huge difference in pay each year — about $840 billion. Comedians Tracy Soren and Jessie Jolles walked the streets of New York for Bustle trying to find that money.
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At first, I thought Mophie had screwed up. The portable battery company has made a name for itself as offering some of the easiest ways to keep your smartphone going when its own charge is running low, with an array of external power-packs and battery cases for the most popular handsets. Yet the newest Mophie Charge Force Cases for iPhone … Continue reading
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump isn’t exactly a paragon of Christian virtue. A close reading of the Ten Commandments would find him guilty of adultery, theft, bearing false witness and coveting more than a few neighbors’ houses, wives and servants. There’s no documented evidence of him committing murder, but there are definitely bad jokes to be made about some of his business ventures and the GOP’s midterm chances.
Nevertheless, Trump’s questionable piety wasn’t a problem for attendees at last week’s Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference in D.C. ― one of the year’s largest gatherings of conservative Christian political activists. These political crusaders cited the president’s accomplishments ― like appointing conservative Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and loosening restrictions on religious institutions engaging in political activity ― as evidence that Trump himself is a near-miracle.
“I am genuinely excited about what God is doing in America right now,” proclaimed Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) during his address to the conference on Saturday morning. He credited the GOP’s November triumphs to the prayers of conservatives who had beseeched God to set in motion a “refounding of our nation.”
Trump the man didn’t feature strongly in Loudermilk’s remarks; however, the congressman’s excitement for Washington’s current single-party rule implied he was imminently impressed that Donald Trump is a Republican with a pulse.
Indeed, to hear the language employed by speakers and attendees at last week’s gathering, Trump the ally ― the crude but reliable vector for the Christian conservative agenda ― is a welcome development, though Trump’s personal morality doesn’t meet their standards. Even if they think eternal hellfire may await the commander-in-chief in the hereafter, for the time being all they can hear is harps.
“It is June of 2017 and Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Trump’s former opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, said to a hearty round of applause on Thursday morning. Cruz then referenced Gorsuch’s confirmation, earning even greater applause.
Trump’s name only came up several times during Cruz’s speech, despite his focus on the political situation. Rather conspicuously, the Texas lawmaker chose instead to refer to “the administration” or “the president.” Like Loudermilk and so many of the Road to Majority attendees, Cruz had clearly decided to close his eyes and think of England ― or if not England, at least a more conservative D.C. Circuit.
“This is a strange time in Washington,” Cruz said diplomatically, imploring the administration, among others, to “ignore the political circus” and “focus on delivering results.”
In his own remarks to the conference, Trump didn’t focus much on his own faith, but instead tallied his accomplishments on behalf of this key Republican constituency. He did, however, sneak in a reference to the thing that he and the assembled activists share most deeply: a sense of ongoing persecution.
“As you know, we’re under siege. You understand that. But we will come out bigger and better and stronger than ever. You watch,” Trump said Thursday. “You fought hard for me, and now I’m fighting hard for all of you.”
Nothing seemed to dampen the excitement inside the Omni Shoreham hotel in Northwest D.C., not even pride weekend, which overlapped with the gathering. One year ago, many of these activists thought they would be contending with President Hillary Clinton and a far more liberal agenda. That thousands of LGBTQ Americans and their allies were parading through the capital was of little concern. Yes, the president once referred to “Two Corinthians” while citing a Bible passage and, yes, he has admitted to sexually assaulting women, but in the eyes of attendees, he’s still better than Hillary Clinton.
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway most aptly summarized the mood during an interview with Faith and Freedom chair Ralph Reed.
“I admit I thank God everyday and click my heels three times and say, ‘She is not the president. She is not the president. She is not the president,’ and it helps!”
“I want you to know that we not only have his back, but we have your back, and we love you,” Ralph Reed, the founder and chairman of Faith and Freedom, gushed as he wrapped up the interview with Conway.
Love may not have been the pervasive attitude this past weekend, but the relief certainly was palpable.
Mark Repke, an anti-abortion activist from Virginia, told HuffPost he’s happy with Trump’s judicial nominations and efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of funding, but says it “absolutely” can be difficult reconciling Trump’s personal indiscretions with his favorable record as president.
“Trump wasn’t my No.1 candidate ― he wasn’t in my top five,” recalled Repke, who voted for businesswoman Carly Fiorina in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. “The reality is, he’s 50 times better than Hillary Clinton.”
Standing beside his conference vendor booth ― a display case featuring tiny baby-shaped hand soaps that he says represent the number of abortions performed at Planned Parenthood clinics each year ― Repke said conservatives needed to approach the matter of Trump with a degree of realism.
“There are people out here who couldn’t lead a starving man to food, but they’re good people,” observed Repke. “That doesn’t help any.”
That said, Repke is still hopeful for the president’s soul.
“I pray … that he will find the guidance to temper some of his tweets,” he said with a chuckle. “Paul is the rock on which the Church is built. He used to kill Christians, that was his job! I don’t think that God takes the best of us, I think he takes those of us who are most flawed and who understand our flaws and does great things with them.”
Igor Bobic contributed reporting to this article.
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Far-right radio show host and Infowars founder Alex Jones advocates a range of preposterous and deplorable conspiracy theories. He doesn’t usually get airtime in the mainstream media.
But NBC News’ Megyn Kelly sat down with him and over the weekend she teased a portion of their conversation, set to be aired next Sunday. She explained the interview as an attempt to “shine a light” on a man whom President Donald Trump has praised but many others know little about.
Many who do know about Jones responded to the clip with fury, reminding Kelly of all the questionable things he’s said over the years.
Here’s a little refresher of just what Jones puts out there:
“The whole thing was fake,” Jones has claimed. He’s accused the parents of the 20 students who were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 of being actors who pretended to mourn their children’s deaths.
“I looked at all the angles of Newtown. We didn’t even get any of the really important stuff,” he told Kelly.
These parents are angry at his claims, Kelly said.
“They don’t get angry about the half a million dead Iraqis from the sanctions,” he responded.
A conspiracy theory claiming that presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff was operating a child sex trafficking ring out of Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., made waves last year. The fake news spread to such an extent that a North Carolina man went there with an assault-style rifle in December to investigate the situation for himself. He fired the gun, although no one was hurt.
Jones peddled the Pizzagate theory on his radio show. “Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children,” he said in November. “I just can’t hold back the truth anymore.”
After the shooting, he dissociated himself from the idea and later apologized when Comet Ping Pong’s owner personally asked Infowars to retract some of its statements.
“We were participating in a discussion that was being written about by scores of media outlets, in one of the most hotly contested and disputed political environments our country has ever seen,” Jones wrote in March. “We relied on third party accounts of alleged activities and conduct at the restaurant.”
“I mean criminal elements in our government working with Saudi Arabia and others wanted to frame Iraq for it,” he told Kelly. “Just a fact.”
The 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died, was another inside job that U.S. government officials orchestrated, Jones contends.
“They needed to go after the states’ rights movement,” he said in 2011. “They needed to demonize the growing militia movement.”
President Barack Obama prays facing Mecca five times per day and is a “radical Muslim,” Jones said last year. “Thank God Donald Trump has come out and pointed all of this out.”
The radio host has also claimed that Obama is responsible for the creation of the so-called Islamic State, along with Clinton.
“The reason there are so many gay people now is because it’s a chemical warfare operation,” Jones said in March. “Folks, it’s making the frogs gay.”
Chemicals and industrial runoff “have estrogen mimickers and you name it,” he added. “It’s changing our sex, killing our sperm count, causing all sorts of deformities.”
“I have sources inside NASA — they put on some fake stuff for you — see, there was a lie,” Jones said. “It’s not just ‘Did we go or didn’t we go.’ You were shown the Tinkertoy stuff because you’re not supposed to see what they really got. You’re not supposed to know the thousands of astronauts that have died. Oh, yeah. In fact, I should do a whole show on that. This is the kind of stuff that will get you killed. I shouldn’t even get into things I know, because I don’t have the absolute proof in front of me ― I just have sources and evidence that backs it up, but I’m digressing.”
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The first day of the Pokemon GO Event of Fire and Ice is upon us. Soon, the first Solstice event from Niantic for Pokemon GO will bring both fire type Pokemon and Ice type Pokemon to the mix, making both more common for all users all around the world. This is the first Pokemon GO event in which two different … Continue reading
A viral photo of a shaved Siberian husky is getting a hair-raising reaction.
The bizarre image of the breed’s familiar fur-coated head atop a completely shorn body has sparked concern among some viewers that such a severe haircut may pose a health risk to the dog.
The photo appears to be legit; however, its provenance isn’t clear.
One Twitter user posted the pic on June 7 with the jokey caption: “If you’ve never seen a husky with absolutely no body hair then here you go. Enjoy.”
The post generated tens of thousands of retweets. In a conversation thread, the user seems to indicate that he has a husky, but not the one pictured. He hasn’t responded to HuffPost.
The photo has quickly circulated on the internet, prompting debate about the motivation for shearing the pooch.
A vet told HuffPost a well-groomed husky’s double-layer coat “is like a Thermos in the heat.”
“It will protect them from the heat and sunburn, and in the cold it protects from the cold weather,” Emmy-winning vet Dr. Jeff Werber said in an email. “However if the coat is unhealthy and is matted or has some type of skin disease and for medical reasons we need to shave, then it would be advisable.”
Professional groomers say that huskies and other double-coated breeds like malamutes, akitas and Australian shepherds are among dogs that require frequent grooming.
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