It's like watching ice melt...

Incredible Photos of a Melting Ice Hotel

 

Every year, Lapland erects a hotel made of ice in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden. And every year, when the weather turns warmer, the IceHotel melts back into where it originated: the Torne River.
Here's what the twenty-third incarnation of the IceHotel looked like when we visited it last year:

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Click the link below to watch it melt! Now that's what I call riveting!

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Just to be clear, this ain't your bath tub...

 Hong Kong's giant rubber duck

A larger-than-life inflatable rubber duck six stories high by conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman sailed into Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Since 2007 the art installation has travelled to 13 different cities in nine countries ranging from Brazil to Australia in its journey around the world.

Mental Health chair of the Canadian Obesity Network... before you even get into the article... whaaaaaat?

Psychiatrist Says People Who Post Pictures of Meals Online May Have Medical Issues

• 5/2/13 at 4:40 PM
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Also, this guy is doing it all wrong.Photo: Fun!

Okay, this actually happened: The Mental Health chair of the Canadian Obesity Network presented on the connections between, say, obsessive Instagramming of croissants and an emerging epidemic of eating disorders, the CBC reports, at a summit on obesity yesterday. "You don't take pictures of who you're with, you take pictures of what you're eating," says Dr. Valerie Taylor, the psychiatrist-in-chief at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto. The first sign for some, says Taylor, happens when the camera-phone lens shifts away from your friend named Patty and on to a lot of hamburger patties. So. What time is the intervention?
We've seen our share of send-ups of obsessive food photographers — it seems like there's a new parody video every day, in fact. The mood-killingly lethal combination of social media and camera phones has even led to a complicated etiquette that's been put together apace with the technology.
It's become inescapable and routine practice, and now Taylor says those addicted to posting may be most prone to developing "unhealthy weight disorders." We always knew that unending cavalcade of pupusas and pork-bun snapshots was annoying, but is the quest to make sure no Brussels sprout goes undocumented really the sign of future illness? Are food-photo-heavy Twitter feeds replacing real meals?

Posting pictures of meals online? You may have health problems [CBC]
Related: Department of Deportment: The End-All, Be-All Guide to Using Your Phone at the Table

Congrats Cupcakadamus... for calling the same results as every hockey pundit out there...

Jumping the Cupcake shark: Part deux... don't appreciate the result, but gotta admire the process...

Eating your way to a Stanley Cup(cake) champion

By Steve Lepore on May 2 2013, 9:00a  @stevelepore 2

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Because why let anything other than cupcakes determine a champion?

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The Stanley Cup Playoffs are the ultimate test of athleticism, strength and will to win. The athletes who play this crazy ice game have a threshold for pain that is beyond comprehension. They are truly brave individuals.

But when it came to figuring out a foolproof method for determining a winner for the 2013 edition of this tournament, I used none of these attributes. You see, the NHL has sent many of us in the Important, Elitist Media a set of 18 cupcakes: chocolate for the Western Conference, vanilla for the Eastern Conference, red velvet for the NHL and, finally, NBC-themed cupcakes. Corporate sponsorship: it's delicious!

All kidding aside, it is a fabulous gift to look at. The league and network, in conjunction with Crumbs Bakery, sent us a large Stanley-Cup-shaped cupcake holder with all of them inside. It just looks really cool.

Anyway, I had an idea. Four bites seems like enough to properly dispose of a cupcake, and it takes four series victories to take the Stanley Cup. I asked SB Nation NHL editor Travis Hughes if I could post a photo essay of my attempt to pick a Stanley Cup Champion. I then asked SB Nation head honcho Spencer Hall if the company has insurance for "All Of The Diabetes," and he said "No." I was discouraged, but being discouraged is not what the Stanley Cup Playoffs are about, so I soldiered on and began my journey.

By the way, these were so, so great.

(NOTE: No, I DID NOT eat all of these. I had the help of my two younger brothers in this noble quest.) 

No Spoilers! Click here for the Cupcake breakdown...

Sometimes it's not better late than never...

and I thought we jumped the cupcake shark in 2011...

Oh Look, It’s the Stanley Cup Made Out of Cupcakes

• 4/30/13 at 5:05 PM
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Really? Really.Photo: InternCarlos/Twitter

Cupcakes are making one last, desperate push to stay relevant: Crumbs is partnering with the National Hockey League and NBC Sports to sell limited-edition "Stanley Cup(cakes)." Despite this being a good portmanteau, this is an awful idea. Hockey needs all the good press it can get — why associate with a dying dessert? Is it hockey fans who are going to save cupcakes? No one is going to be happy with you for bringing cupcakes to a playoff party. Nobody. But if you feel the need to purchase these, Crumbs is selling cupcakes bearing the logos of sixteen teams at each of its remaining 69 retail locations around the country — and driving a cupcake truck around certain playoff cities. At this point, it's more like a funeral procession. [Earlier, Yahoo! Sports]

See also: Nine Reasons Why the Cupcake Boom West Went Bust