A crafty lady by the name of Diane made this ingenious jacket out of Ziploc bags. Not only is the clear plastic great for staying dry on rainy days, she can always have some snacks with her. This is one outfit that truly succeeds at fashion and function. Hat tip goes to Laughing Squid!

Look at these winning submissions fromWorth 1000's "Modern Renaissance" contest!

Contestant BrunoSousa took both first and second place for recreating Rogier van der Weyden's "Portrait of a Lady" with the face of actress Angelina Jolie (shown above, top) and Jacques-Louis David's "Portrait of Doctor Alphonse Leroy" with actor Hugh Laurie's face (shown above, middle). Contestant Fichtenbrenner came in at third with François-Xavier Fabre's "Portrait of Edward Fox Fitzgerald" featuring the face of Steve Carrell from The Office (shown above, bottom).

The crafty folks over at Adafruit have come up with a "sneaker hack" that will make those circular badges on your high-top Chuck Taylors glow in the dark! Check out the video for a step-by-step instruction.

Items required: two electroluminescent (EL) panels, two tiny inverters, a needle and thread.

This morning, the authorities in Union County, New Jersey issued an arrest warrant for the 34-year-old Caleb Lawrence McGillvary (better known as Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker) in connection to the homicide of a 73-year-old attorney named Joseph Galfy, Jr. According to the local news station WABC, the 73-year-old man was found bludgeoned to death in his home in Clark, New Jersey earlier this week on Monday. His current whereabouts remains unknown and a reward of $5,000 is being offered for his arrest.

Back in April, at the request of his 87-year-old grandfather, Redditor stevieboy1984 turned to the /r/PicRequests subreddit to see if anyone could clean up a scanned JPEG image file of his grandfather's World War II-era photo taken during his service in the Navy as a submarine sonar/radar operator. After a number of people offered their photoshop wizardries to help its restoration, stevieboy1984 showed his grandfather six variations before handing him a framed version of top commenter unhi's submission. Here's a video of the big reveal. Grab a box a tissues, manly tears are coming.

Since June 2012, Dr. Monica Stevens of Humboldt State University in California has been mapping more than 150,000 geotagged tweets that contain homophobic, racist or abliest language. The result is the Geography of Hate, an interactive map of the U.S. which reveals the hotspots of "hate tweets" across the country. A deeper analysis of the project is available at Floating Sheep.

A courier business based in Gaza is apparently offering an ambitious service to deliver smuggled orders of Kentucky Friend Chicken from Egypt via underground tunnels. According to the company's ads on Facebook, Gazans can get a taste of the "finger-lickin good" stuff for 100 shekels ($30 USD, triple the usual price) within 3 hours of placing the order. Fried chicken is only the latest addition to a long list of supplies and products that are being transported through the network of tunnels, which serves as a vital lifeline between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled region that is currently under an Israeli blockade.