A knee-high unicorn: Not what you think.
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These are the Sock It to Me knee-high unicorn socks. For only $9, you can adorn your foot and leg with awesomeness!
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Bet your My Little Pony never looked like this! (Bronies beware: Content may be shocking!)
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If you thought the “cutie marks” on the tushes of My Little Pony were creative, prepare to have the barn doors of your horizons blown to smithereens! Jodi Moisan and Mari Kasurinen have taken MLP art to a whole new level, as you can see in the photos above.
Warning: Do not skip immediately from #1 to #5. You’ll thank us later.
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The internet has lied to us <:-(
Muscles to smile, muscles to frown
A long time ago I heard the adage that it takes something like 43 muscles to frown but only 17 muscles to smile, ergo, we should just smile because it’s easier. It wasn’t until my first anatomy class in college that I realized these numbers couldn’t possibly be right. As far as I can tell, there are only about 36 named muscles of facial expression, and they’re not all involved in smiling and frowning. Here they are in alphabetical order (a “2” in parentheses means the muscle is bilateral, “1” means it’s unpaired):
Auricularis anterior (2)
Auricularis posterior (2)
Auricularis superior (2)
Buccinator (2)
Corrugator supercilii (2)
Depressor anguli oris (2)
Depressor labii inferioris (2)
Depressor septi nasi (1)
Frontalis (1)
Levator anguli oris (2)
Levator labii superioris (2)
Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi (2)
Mentalis (1)
Nasalis (2)
Orbicularis oculi (2)
Orbicularis oris (1)
Platysma (1)
Procerus (1)
Risorius (2)
Zygomaticus major (2)
Zygomaticus minor (2)So which ones are responsible for smiling and/or frowning? I could hazard a guess, but I’ll defer to Dr. David Song, a plastic surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Hospitals, who was interviewed for a Straight Dope article: Does it take fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown? Counting only the muscles that make significant contributions, he concludes that smiling takes one more muscle than frowning (12 vs. 11). That doesn’t necessarily mean that smiling is harder to do. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I suppose you could compare the masses of “smiling muscles” vs. “frowning muscles” to get a rough estimate of energy consumption (assuming the muscles all consume energy at the same rate per unit mass).
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All those cute Facebook posts and forwarded feel-good emails may be wrong: According to the post above from the blog Anatomy Notes, it may actually be easier to frown than to smile.
Unicorn advocates, we need to ramp up our joy initiatives in order to subsidize the smile effort! First duty: Increase cupcake intake!
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Hey - a horse can dream, can’t it?
Monday delight: Unicorn sitting on a cupcake
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“I am king of the cupcake!” this unicorn exclaims from its sky blue perch, the wind blowing through its rainbow mane. Yes, it pays to be this unicorn, made of sugar and sitting on the best seat possible - except that you may get eaten.
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Unicorn rampage!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/08/charlotta-westergrens-survival_n_1385792.html
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This unicorn has had enough of dogs chomping on its legs!
Artist Charlotta Westergren creates an unexpected battle scene in the painting above entitled “War on Terror”, inspired by a breeding of “The Unicorn Tapestries” and “The Raft of the Medusa”.
If art imitates life, this is visual proof that you don’t ever want to piss off a unicorn.
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Make a balloonicorn!
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Who knew a dog could become a unicorn? About.com did! Check out the tutorial at the link above to make your own balloon unicorn!
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An essay on unicorns in history - juxtaposed with rockin’ unicorn and narwhal Etsy swag!
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We confess: We skipped over Cate Fitt’s thought-provoking essay on unicorns and rainbows to check out the pics of what to add to our Etsy wish list. The items above are some of our favorites, but there are plenty more to be found at the link above!
As for Cate’s essay, we beg to differ with both her professor and the conclusion. Here is our rebuttal:
Unicorns, by their nature, defy cliche. Those who do not should resign their role as these majestic creatures and step into the unemployment line reserved for tired jokes and caricatures: Ally McBeal’s dancing baby, the pseudo-phrase “Wazzzzzuuuupppp?”, Michael Jackson circa 1994. Unicorns will remain as real as their work, creating wonderment and whimsy throughout the galaxy. As long as imagination and possibility are alive, so will be the unicorn.
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Hello Giggles addresses the escalating issue of fauxnicorns
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Investigative reporter and HelloGiggles.com humorist Eliza Hurwitz delves deep into the world of what she calls “Phony Ponies”, and what we call fauxnicorns: Unicorn impostors.
Browse the photos at the link above to see the gallery of culprits she has collected. Our favorite? A very depressed looking bulldog. He would put the Unipug to shame.
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