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31 January, 2008

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Oregon boy parks bike in wrong place, Goodwill store sells it. [SeattleTimes]
Mickey Mouse busted for drunk driving. With video! [Cbs13]
Coke bottle coffins. [Yahoo News]

Council opens new playground for grandma. [DailyMail]
The earthworm that gives off a scent similar to that of the lily flower. [Wikipedia]
To do tattoo. [Fred via OhGizmo!]
This creature is immune to pain. [Yahoo News]
Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis. [Yahoo News]
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt. [Ap]
Vaccine for drug addiction could offer hope to users. [The Age]
Swimmers' sunscreen killing off coral. [National Geographic]
An all-chocolate room was unveiled in Manhattan - a pre-Valentine's Day creation complete with furniture and artworks made of the sweet stuff. [Smh]
A collection of mini guns. [LiveLeak]
Ships on legs. [BBC]

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Death of the Father: British Scientists Discover How to Turn Women's Bone Marrow into Sperm

Scientists in England say they may have found a way to produce sperm from a woman's bone marrow, effectively cutting men out of the reproductive cycle.

In April last year, Prof Karim Nayernia, Professor of Stem Cell Biology at Newcastle University, made headlines by taking stem cells from adult men and making them develop into primitive sperm.

He has now managed to repeat the feat of creating the primitive sperm cells with female embryonic stem cells in unpublished work.

He has applied for permission to start experiments and could be doing so within months.

New Scientist magazine said the process could transform a woman's bone marrow to sperm through the addition of certain chemicals and vitamins.

Theoretically, a lesbian couple could both be biological parents to a new child after using their own bone marrow to create sperm.

If the treatmant was ever used there would be even less men contributing to the reproduction pool, as the absence of a Y-chromosome in the female sperm would make it impossible to create male children.

Source: This Is London & News.com.au & Telegraph
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Spiral Jetty

Spiral JettyThe Spiral Jetty, considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson, is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970.

Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a 1500-foot long and 15-foot wide counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake.

It is currently threatened by oil drilling.

Source: Wikipedia via Boing Boing
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Trying Out the Cheeseburger in a Can

Cheeseburger in a canAbout the cheeseburger in a can which I posted earlier, someone actually bought one and tried it out. Here's what he has to say as quoted from Something Awful:

It tastes... not so good. Very bland, kind of like pre-made tomato sauce and a bitter aftertaste. The lower bun got kinda soggy, which really lowered the overall experience. I'm not sick and I say I would eat this thing again if it weren't so expensive. And I really must say that this probably is faaaar better when you're many kilometers away from civilization on top of some mountain and you can whip out a cheeseburger with nearly the same quality as a McDonald's cheeseburger while your friend eats dry bread or power bars.

More pictures after the jump.


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Primary's Class of 2008 Is an All-Boy Affair

The boys pictured with teacher Liz JohnsonThis year's foundation class at a primary school in Exmouth, Devon, is made up entirely of boys.

For the first time since Bassett's Farm opened in 1978 there is not a single girl among the class of 20 four-year-olds who began school this month. Christine Jones, the head teacher at the school, which draws pupils from across Exmouth, said: "I have never known anything like this. There are sometimes more boys than girls in a class - and vice versa - but never all the same sex. It just seems to be one of those freakish things.

"It is pretty incredible and quite sweet really." Mrs Jones declined to be drawn on the behaviour of the boys in the absence of girls, saying only: "They are not a bad little group of boys but they are boys."

Source: Telegraph
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Australia's Monster Motorbike

Monster MotorbikeThe Australian monster is a 13 ton (28,660 pound) two-wheeler devised by Ray Baumann, a stunt driver. It is 9 meters (29.5ft) long, more than 3 meters (9.8ft) high and is powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine. This monster will be on show at the Melbourne Motor Show which runs from 29 February. More pictures after the jump.

Image Gallery: AutoBlog
Source: Autoblog
Previously: World's Biggest Motorcycle
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Nine-Year-Old's Level Head Stops 70mph Crash

Jonathan AndersonAn autistic boy of nine was hailed a “superhero” yesterday for steering his mother’s car across three lanes of traffic at 70mph (112km/h) after she fainted at the wheel.

Jonathan Anderson took over the controls of the Toyota Avensis after mother Marion, 34, slumped unconscious as they drove to school.

He screamed at her to wake up then grabbed the wheel and pulled the handbrake on – forcing the car to jerk left towards the hard shoulder.

It changed direction and swerved across three lanes of rush hour traffic and smashed into the central reservation of the A38 at Plympton, Devon.

The boy managed to steer the car back across the lanes before it weaved up a bank, smashed into a tree and stopped. He then calmly put the hazard lights on and waited for help to arrive.

Both were taken to hospital but miraculously escaped without injury.

Source: Daily Express
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Sax Notes Lead To Off-Beat Boiler

The sonic boilerInventor and saxophone player Peter Davey has come up with a device that he claims boils water in no time.

He calls it the "sonic boiler" because he claims it uses the power of sound. How the heater actually works has confounded experts.

The device looks oddly like a bent desk lamp, with a metallic ball at the end instead of a lightbulb. When plugged into the power supply, and the ball is lowered into water, it boils the liquid within seconds -- even as little as a tablespoonful.

"Everybody boils twice the amount of water they need so I decided I would find a way to boil water and make steam more economically," said Davey, a former Spitfire pilot.

"This boils exactly what you want to drink."

Davey, who lives in a tumbledown two-storey historic homestead called Locksley in Dallington, has been using the boiler to make hot drinks for 30 years.

Source: Press
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'Flying' Chair Promises Relaxing Ride

Hover ChairEver laid back and wished your aches, pains and stress would just float away? Well, you could be in luck. A new 'hover lounger' has been unveiled promising to do exactly that.

The flying chair, which uses magnets to levitate above the floor, costs a whopping £5,875 ($11,700) but its maker claims it not only looks good – it will make you feel good too.

Designer Keith Dixon, from West Sussex, said: 'The sensation you feel as you lie back and close your eyes is like floating on a cloud.'
The Lounger will be available in March.

Source: Metro
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Endangered Leatherback Turtle's Epic 12744-Mile Migration

A leatherback turtleA leatherback turtle was tracked by satellite traveling 12,774 miles (20,558 kilometers) from Indonesia to Oregon, one of the longest recorded migrations of any vertebrate animal.

Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) tracked one female nester, who was tagged on Jamursba-Medi beach in Papua, Indonesia, on her journey back to her foraging grounds off the coast of Oregon. She was tracked for 647 days covering a distance about equal to two round trips between New York and Los Angeles.

The turtle's trip set a new record for sea turtles, and is among the longest documented migrations for any marine vertebrate.

Source: LiveScience
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Chicken In Mexico Lays Green Eggs


A chicken in a small Mexican town is making a name for herself by laying green eggs. Rabanita started laying the green-colored eggs last December, said her owner, Elvira Romero.

Romero said she has found no explanation for the strange color of Rabanita's egg and that the chicken does not get a special diet, and eats what her other chickens do: corn, tortillas and chicken feed.

Scientists said they believed the color of the eggs' shells does not affect the color or flavor of the yolk inside.

They said blue or green shell colors are frequently found in the Araucana chicken strain.

Video: Clip Syndicate
Source: Knbc
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30 January, 2008

More links for 30 Jan 2008

Doctors have made an accidental breakthrough that may unlock how memory works, during experimental brain surgery to control the appetite of an obese man. [Times Onlione]
Curly hair vs. straight: Which do men prefer? [Divine Caroline]
Man shocked to see own gravestone. [BBC]
Man struggles to return from the dead. [Reuters]
Hubdub is a new Web site where customers will bet for fun, not money, on the outcomes of real news stories. [Ap, Video: Clip Syndicate]
Using rain to generate power. [Eurek Alert via TreeHugger]
A surgical gown with zips that show where surgeons make cuts in the body for during operations could soon be helping to teach medical students. [Telegraph]

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Turkey Dinner Telephone

Turkey phoneA telephone shaped like a turkey drumstick. It was created by Custom Phones.

Turkey phone
Thanks, Raluca !

Source: 7Gadgets
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Hamburg Science Centre and Aquarium

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has revealed the final design for a Science Centre and Aquarium for the Hamburg Hafencity complex.

The Science Centre is constructed of ten modular blocks that connect to form a ring shaped building. This concept allows for maximum flexibility for exhibitions. Visitors will start their visit at the so called “base station” just under the top of the building, cross over through the exhibition halls and descend in the modular blocks through the various exhibited scientific subjects, such as “the beginning of life” or “everything flows”.


With terraces on various levels of the building the Science Centre allows panoramic views of Hamburg city centre as well as to the West and East sides of the Magdeburg harbor.

Source: Oma via Gizmodo
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Cool Skateboard Moves


Cool skateboarding moves performed by Rodney Mullen.

Video: ShredOrDie
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Unlikely Best Friends

A rabbit and an eagleA rabbit and an eagle have become unlikely best friends in China.

The owner of the eagle put the rabbit in its cage at Beizhamen Bird Market, Zhengzho City, for the bird's dinner.

But instead of following its predatory nature, the eagle made friends with the startled but fortunate rabbit.

"The rabbit very humbly combs the eagle's feathers with its mouth," the surprised owner said.

"The eagle is four-months-old, and I threw him the rabbit for food, but apparently he doesn't know how to enjoy his meals."

Source: Ananova
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Blanket Which You Can Wear

The SlanketThe Slanket is a gigantic fleece blanket with sleeves. A very soft to the touch, lightweight, but warm fleece blanket with large, loose sleeves designed so you don't feel like you're wearing the blanket, simply wrapped up in its wonder. The Slanket is designed to keep your entire body covered and cozy while you still retain the use of your hands. Simplistic and practical, its innovativeness opens up possibilities, but still can replace any normal blanket.

Source: The Slanket
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The Chair That Shakes Your Butt While You Work


The Hawaii Chair shakes your butt while you work and is supposed to make you fit. Lol! But seriously, I doubt one would be able to work at all while sitting on them.

Video: YouTube
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Helmet Woes For Cycling Postman


A Nottinghamshire postman's taking an hour and a half longer to deliver his letters than his colleagues because of his big head!

Jason Clay from Sutton-in-Ashfield can't find a bike helmet to fit him so he has to walk his round - his head is about seven inches bigger than average.

Jason's used to getting some stick but said that he doesn't mind.

"I had name-calling when I was a child such as 'big head Eddie'. In the Post Office they take the micky out of me and say I should wear a dustbin lid or a box! We went to the menswear shop and I tried several hats on and one of the people says 'If it's any consolation, you've got the biggest head that's ever been in my shop'."

Video: LiveLeak
Source: TrentFm
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29 January, 2008

More links for 29 Jan 2008

Could there be proof to the theory that we're all psychic? [DailyMail]
Fires can be extinguished with sound waves. [Scentific American, Video: Scentific American]
In the shadow of the Empire State Building lies an “automotive Bermuda Triangle” - a five-block radius where vehicles mysteriously die. [Daily News]
Fascinating mechanical animals on display. [Dark Roasted Blend]
Pet deer runs amok through restaurant. With video! [Wxii12]
A ghost town buried in the sand. [Uaddit]
Google maps gone wrong. [YouTube]

Cheeseburger in a can. [Trekking Mahlzeiten]
Strawberry flavored cheetos. [Inventor Spot]
The $20 lip gloss that could help you lose weight. [DailyMail]
Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus. [Yahoo News]

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Wicked Lasers Flashlight Can Make Fire


The Torch is the world's brightest and most powerful flashlight. It is capable of melting plastic, lighting paper on fire within seconds, and if you like, fry an egg or a marshmallow on a stick.

At 4100 lumens, The Torch is 100 lumens more powerful than The Polarion Helios, the former most powerful flashlight. The battery lasts for 15min and Wicked Lasers are selling it for $300.

Video: YouTube
Source: Wicked Lasers via I4U
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11-Year-Old Boy Partially Deaf for Nine Years Is Suddenly Cured

Jerome with the cotton budAn 11-year-old boy from Britain, who was partially deaf for nearly 10 years, was suddenly cured when a thick piece of cotton popped out of his ear.

Jerome Bartens was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just two-years-old.

Over the next nine years, he struggled to live a normal life as a young boy — but everything changed when he felt a sudden pop in his right ear while playing a game of pool with friends.

He put his finger in his ear and pulled out a tip of a cotton wool bud that had been wedged in his ear since he was a toddler.

"It was very strange at first to be able to hear everything," said Barten.

"But now I'm getting used to it — it's great that people don't have to shout to me or that I don't have to turn my head all the time."

Source: DailyMail & Fox News
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Japanese Firm Offers "Heartache Leave" For Staff

A coupleLovelorn staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad break-up with a partner, with more "heartache leave" on offer as they get older.

Tokyo-based Hime & Company says heartache leave allows staff to cry themselves out and return to work refreshed. "Not everyone needs to take maternity leave but with heartbreak, everyone needs time off, just like when you get sick," CEO Miki Hiradate said.

Staff aged 24 years or younger can take one day off per year, while those between 25 and 29 can take two days off and those older can take three days off, the company said.

Hime & Company staff can also take two mornings off twice a year as "sales shopping leave", so they can race to stores to hunt for bargains.

Source: Yahoo News
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How to Modify Your Toilet to Conserve Water


A clever way of modifying the toilet such that the water from washing your hands is put to good use.

Video: LiveLeak
Previously: Clever toilet design
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Mayor Uses Magazine To Prove ID

Danny JonesCharleston Mayor Danny Jones had a problem as he tried to get through the security gate at a California airport: He had misplaced his driver's license, and the expired one in his wallet wouldn't do.

The guards at John Wayne Airport in Orange County searched his bag. Then he remembered picking up a copy of Charleston Magazine while on his way to the West Coast for a little rest and relaxation.

Inside was a photograph of him standing in downtown Charleston and an article Jones had written as mayor welcoming visitors to the state capital.

Only then was he allowed to board his flight home.

Source: Charleston Daily Mail & Denver Post
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Fruit Stickers Art

Sticker artThere are some works of art that just stick with you. An artist in Erie hopes his work will do just that.

From John Lennon and the Beatles to iconic paintings such as "American Gothic," his art gets its core appeal from those little stickers that grace your produce at the supermarket.

His highly-detailed work all got started on a whim,"It just sort of evolved from putting em on a piece of paper on the refrigerator into doing designs with 'em, to maybe I can do an image with 'em," said Snyder.

Once he chooses his subject, he outlines the image on his canvas and then figures out the color scheme for each section. Then he carefully glues and places each sticker... making sure they don't wrinkle or fall off.

A big piece, like one he's doing of John Lennon from the Sgt. Pepper's album cover, will take him six months to finish. And since each work takes thousands and thousands of stickers, he relies on the kindness of strangers.

Video after the jump.

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28 January, 2008

More links for 28 Jan 2008

A team of Japanese boffins may have accidentally struck gold in the fight against global warming: they believe they have devised a way to neutralise the perilous belches of 1.5 billion cows. [Times Online]
Woman reunited with ring lost 67 years ago. [Telegraph]
Amazing young organ player rocks out. [Break]
Farmer unveils the castle which he managed to hide behind 40ft hay bales for 4 years. [This Is London]
In Spain, 2,000 skiers attempted the largest torch-lit descent. [Abc]

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McDonald's to Offer 'McGCSEs'

McDonald LogoMcDonald's will soon be offering fast-food qualifications equivalent to A levels, degrees and GCSEs in Britain. Students will be trained in-house and have to complete a series of practical modules under a system known as the Qualification Accreditation Framework.

McDonald's will train employees for a qualification in basic shift management which will include learning about the day-to-day running of a restaurant, including finance, hygiene and human resources. McDonald's will begin training employees for their basic training course later this month.

Critics have cast doubt on the validity of such qualifications, branded "McGCSEs", and suggested that they will have little worth outside the company which has offered them.

Source: Telegraph
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16 Year-Old Builds Electric Pickup Truck

The modified pickupAndrew Angelloti, a 16 year old, converted his very own 1988 Mazda pickup to run on electricity last year, using $6,000 he had saved up from his part time job as a life guard. He built his truck using 20 flooded lead acid batteries to create 120 volts, which he couples to a 60 HP 9” electric motor. It is capable of reaching a top speed of 55mph (89 km/h) and can get up to 40 miles (64 km) on a charge which is more than enough to get him to work and back.

Source: Ecomodder
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Go Destroy Some Website

NetDiasterIs there an online site that you hate and just wanted to destroy it? Then, head on to NetDiaster which have a range of arsenal at your disposal ranging from nukes, dinosaurs to dog poop. Just enter the target site, select your choice of disaster and let the destruction begin.

Source: NetDiaster
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Big Sweat As Human Hippo Brady Barr Gets Stuck In Mud

Brady Barr pretending to be a hippoWhen naturalist Dr Brady Barr needed to get close to a wild hippo to take a sweat sample, he thought he had the perfect answer.

He concealed himself inside a lifelike - and armoured - hippo suit and inched across the mud of a Zambian wildlife park until he was within sniffing distance of the real thing.

But then disaster struck. His hippo outfit weighed 14 stone and Dr Barr soon found he was stuck in the mud.

All attempts to free himself from the sticky situation he found himself in merely ended up deeper in the mud.

With a real hippopotamus loitering menacingly, half-submerged in a stream in front of him, Dr Barr was forced to radio for help.

A local ranger sneaked up to the contraption with his rifle at the ready in case the beast charged at them.

Fortunately, the hippopotamus decided the two humans were not worth the effort, choosing instead to leave his bath and wander off in the opposite direction.

This allowed the relieved, and perhaps somewhat embarrassed, zoologist the chance to escape with his limbs intact.

Hit the jump to see a video of Brady Barr pretending to be a hippo.


Brady Barr pretending to be a hippo

More pictures after the jump.

Video: LiveLeak
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Mom Says Baby Tossed Out With Laundry


Kourtney McGee was on medication and barely remembers holding her son, Jacob, minutes after he died at birth.

So McGee and her family began planning the baby's funeral. But the body couldn't be found. In a lawsuit her attorney says that for 19 hours the baby was missing, until the hospital staff at Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Fort Worth realized it.

"They told us that the baby, that the cleaning lady was sent up there later that day and I guess she didn't recognize there was a baby wrapped in a blanket and she put him in the laundry and he was shipped off," McGee said.

The funeral director says boy's body was picked up from a commercial laundry facility.

Video: LiveLeak
Source: Wfaa
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27 January, 2008

More links for 27 Jan 2008

World's largest cucumber. [Cbs13]
Sculptures created from wheel covers. [Jalopnik]
Watch evolution unfold before you in this video featuring fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals, and primates. [5min]
Retiree Leo Hill actually counted sheets on his nine rolls of toilet paper and found out that the average number was about 157 out of a promised 198. [DenverPost]
Geographical distribution of environmental factors influencing human skin coloration. [Grida]
Photo clues lead to camera's owner. [Cnews]
Sheep circle. [DailyMail]
Couple gets $99,999 electric bill for mobile home. [Wlbz2]
A "large" US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected to crash to Earth some time in late February or March. [BBC]

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Hospital Serves Up Mouse Head on Plate

A mouseA hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate.

"Understandably, he lost his appetite," said Sakari Kela, chief administrator at the Northern Karelia Central Hospital.

The health of the patient in Joensuu, eastern Finland, had not been compromised by the dead rodent, Kela said on Saturday.

The severed head most likely originated in a bag of Belgian vegetables. The body has not been found and being "a Belgian mouse, the rest of it could be anywhere in Europe", Kela said.

Source: Reuters
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Human-sized Wacky WallWalker scales Japanese skyscraper


A Japanese TV show designs a 5'6" Wacky WallWalker, weighing about 154 lbs, to climb down a 110-meter skyscraper. The first try is not exactly successful, but a second attempt comes up with better results.


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Landing at Courchevel Airport

Courchevel AirportCourchevel's airport located in France, has a certain degree of infamy in the aviation industry as home to a relatively short runway, with a length of 525 m (1,722 ft) and a gradient of 18.5%.


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Man Breaks Own Record for Ice Endurance

Wim HofA man who calls himself a tantric master has broken his own world record by standing in ice for 72 minutes.

The 48-year-old Wim Hof outside Rubin Museum of Art in a clear container filled with ice for an hour and 12 minutes on Saturday.

Hof says he survives by controlling his body temperature with the tantric practice of tumo.

A video of his practice run after the jump.

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Shark Chomps A Shark at Underwater Adventures


A tunnel full of aquarium visitors were treated to a true, raw display of nature. Jessie, the nine foot, 300 pound sand tiger shark is the biggest shark in the Underwater Adventures Aquarium at the Mall of America. On Friday, she chomped down on a four and a half foot, 50 pound white tip reef shark.

Workers used a pair of feeding tongs to grab the tail of the reef shark, pull and eventually free the little shark from Jessie's death-grip.

The little shark then swam to the other end of the tank where a couple more workers yanked her out just in time. Experts say a bleeding, flailing fish like the reef shark would not have lasted a minute in a tank full of other sharks.

Fortunately, the female reef shark will survive, albeit with scrapes and bite marks along her back. Her caregivers expect she'll need some time to recover. Meantime, they don't plan on returning her or the other white tipped reef sharks to the aquarium.

Video: YouTube
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Largest Champagne Fountain

Largest Champagne FountainA worker adjusts glasses in an attempt to break the world record for the "Largest Champagne Fountain" in the shopping center Wijnegem near Antwerp, January 25, 2008. The 7 metre (22.9 feet) high pyramid will contain more than 43,000 glasses and weigh 8,750 kg (19,290 pounds) to set a new record.

More pictures after the jump.


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Meat Ship

Meat ShipJoel Richards’s meat house was featured here previously. Now, check out his latest creation: a meat ship made out of 20 sausages, 48 rashers of bacon and 1kg of pork minces among several other ingredients.


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26 January, 2008

More links for 26 Jan 2008

A remote-controlled car racing a real car. [LiveLeak]
A root shaped like a man and woman. [The Sun]
A letter released with a balloon nearly 15 years ago by an elementary school first-grade girl in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been found clinging on a shark-skin flounder landed in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture. [Japan Today]
Teach your brain to stretch time. [New Scientist]
The humanoid robot that recognizes when people are lost and helps them find their way. [Pink Tentacle]
Creating life from scratch moves one step closer. [BBC]
Do's and don'ts with babies. [Cool Stuff]
Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth. [Cnn, Video: Cnn]
Artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a bic pen to create stunning, photo-realistic drawings. [Andrew Sullivan]
Mother sacrificed her life by refusing cancer treatment so her premature baby would live. [Telegraph]

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A Wooden Bicycle

Wooden BicycleMarco Facciola, a 16-year-old high school student, constructed this fully functional wooden bicycle to fulfill a class requirement. No metal was used in its construction, only wood and glue. More details after the jump.

Source: LeeValley via Neatorama
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5-Legged Cat


Cats are known for having nine lives, but one feline in Pennsylvania has a little something extra somewhere else.

A black and white cat named "Baby Girl" was born with five legs as the result of inbreeding.

She's living at the Washington Area Humane Society in the Pittsburgh area until she can find a permanent home.

"Baby Girl" needs surgery to move the extra leg and another one that's crippled.

Video: LiveLeak
Source: Localnews8
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Boy, 10, Engineers Private Backyard Ski Slope

Forest PearsonTalk about ingenuity - a 10-year-old boy built his own snow machine and filled his backyard with enough snow to make it look like a blizzard had blown through.

"It was just hypnotizing," said Forest Pearson, who built the snow machine out of a 30-gallon air compressor that he got for Christmas, a pressure washer and a whole lot of research.

The nozzle shoots out a perfect powder. In fact, the machine works so well that Forest ended up with three feet of snow in his backyard in just one night.


Video: Clip Syndicate
Source: Katu
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Woman’s Dentures Flew Off While Skydiving


This woman lost her dentures while skydiving! Lol!

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Music with Drinking Glasses


A man playing music with drinking glasses in the streets of Vienna. Awesome!


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The Bear That Went To War

Voytek the bearA campaign has been launched to build a permanent memorial to a bear which spent much of its life in Scotland - after fighting in World War II.

The bear - named Voytek - was adopted in the Middle East by Polish troops in 1943, becoming much more than a mascot.

The large animal even helped their armed forces to carry ammunition at the Battle of Monte Cassino.

Voytek - known as the Soldier Bear - later lived near Hutton in the Borders and ended his days at Edinburgh Zoo.


Full story after the jump.

Video: YouTube
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25 January, 2008

More links for 25 Jan 2008

Live frog in lettuce stuns mom. [DailyNews]
A weird music video! [YouTube]
Cane toad purse. [ToadFactory]
Taxidermy mouse bracelet. [eBay via Arbroath]
Woman’s house mistakenly torn down by construction workers. [Fox News]
Where the snail beats the postman. [Brisbane Times]
In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a technique that could free many patients from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives. [Physorg]
Asteroid to make rare close flyby of earth January 29. [Nasa via PCNews, Thanks Raluca!]
Florida couple find Jesus in a potato. [Fox31]
What would happen if all the women were to disappear from a town, leaving the men to not only work, but also take care of the family and the home? [Yahoo News]
The world’s first weed ATM at your service! - In Los Angeles. [CityZine]
Fighting with your spouse can make you live longer. [Reuters]
'I decided to die like a man', says tycoon who took on 'armed gang who threatened to kill his daughter.' [DailyMail]
An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China. [Yahoo News]

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Mysterious 'Ghostly' Face of Child Appears In Cell Phone Photo

A ghoulish child stares backAt first glance, it seems to be an ordinary snap of a group of young people.

But look more carefully and there appears to be an extraordinary, ghostly presence among them.

Peeping out between the knees of two of the girls is the face of a child.

A ghoulish child stares back
The eerie image - clear enough to show a pair of eyes, a nose, a mouth and hair - was captured by 17-year-old Matthew Summers on his mobile phone as he and his friends were preparing to go out.

"I zoomed in to my sister's mate's little sister who was crying and I saw a face,"

Matthew said. "You can see all the facial expressions and everything.

However, Ciaran O'Keeffe, a parapsychologist on Living TV's Most Haunted show, has a more down-to-earth explanation for the "child" in Matthew's photograph.

Dr O'Keeffe said: "As human beings we're very good at finding a pattern in randomness and related to that we're good at finding faces in randomness. The term for this is pareidolia.

"There is no ghost in this picture, just the coincidental effect of pixelation and darkness and light which combine together."

Source: This Is London
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Man Sparks World's Biggest Police Chase

Crashed carPolice on Thursday arrested a wanted man after a two-hour car chase that involved 2,240 officers, 460 police cars and one helicopter. Hirofumi Fukuda, 27, who had been wanted for assaulting police officers on Jan 21, was arrested after a chase through central Osaka. Around 11 a.m., police received an emergency call saying that a car was driving recklessly, ignoring traffic lights. When a patrol car approached the vehicle in question, it took off.

Police were mobilized throughout the area and a helicopter called in. The chase ended when Fukuda's car crashed into a bridge column. He sustained light injuries but no one else was injured in the chase.

Source: Japan Today
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Artist Creates 20ft Figure Out Of Rock without Using a Hammer or Chisel

Fallen Angel, built from 300 individual pieces of stoneAn artist has spent three years scouring the globe for individual rocks which resemble body parts - to make a remarkable 2.5-tonne sculpture of the human form.

Duncan Elliott, 43, hauled stones ranging from the size of marbles up to 90kg from fields and mountains across Europe.

Each rock he used was precisely the right form - and proportionally the right size - for the body part it represents and has not been chipped or shaped.

The biggest is a 90kg piece of Mendip limestone, for the belly. The smallest are pieces of limestone from Crete weighing less than a gramme each, for the fingernails.

Elliott attached the 300 rocks using a hidden steel cable skeleton to produce the 20ft-high Fallen Angel, which represents Satan being thrown out of heaven.

It has now been unveiled as the centrepiece of the Crown Plaza Hotel in Liverpool.

Source: DailyMail
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Exhaust Burger

Exhaust BurgerYour car exhaust is a barbeque now... Stop the car when you are hungry, install the device to the exhaust and back to drive, you'll have a hamburger in no time. This way you don't need fuel for cooking while commuting and a large amount of energy would be saved.

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Men on Motorcycle Steal Woman's Hair

HairTwo men on a motorcycle grabbed a woman as she walked to church, pulled out a machete and cut off the waist-length hair she had been growing for two decades, police in Brazil said Thursday.

The woman, a homemaker whose name was not released, told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted late Tuesday, police officer Antonio Williams da Silva said by telephone from the northeastern city of Aracaju.

Da Silva said the woman told authorities she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years.

"It must have been nearly a meter and half (more than four feet) long," da Silva said.

The robbers cut the woman's hair above her shoulders, he said, apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.

"A hairpiece that size could cost you as much" as $550, da Silva said.

Source: Star-Telegram
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Bird Poops in Reporter’s Mouth


Local news guy reports on the canadian brown finch overpopulation in town and gets bird poops in his mouth.

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5-Year-Old Girl Attempts to Hitchhike to School


The 5-year old girl wanted to