TREATED LIKE ANIMALS: Obese patients too big for equipment -- sent to local horse racetrack for medical testing...

Ghost Cars of the World.

Dark Roasted Blend has a gallery of vehicles from all over that they call ?ghost cars?. Some are just ugly and past their prime, but some will make you scratch you head and wonder how they still run. It may make you feel better about driving your old junker around! Link -via the Presurfer

Zombified Movie Posters.

We’ve featured Rob Sacchetto’s unique art before (he "zombify" your photo for a price), but we can’t resist his new works: movie posters as zombies! (More please, Rob!) Link | Zombie Portraits [flickr] - Thanks JT Pednaud! (In fact, you can see a pic of Pednaud, The Human ...

Monkey Brain Signal Controls Robot.

In 2000, professor Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University was able to "read" the brain activity of monkeys as they reach for small pieces of food. Nicolelis then sent the brain signals to control a robotic arm. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | BBC story - via Aramax

Cigarette Holder for Nudist Smokers.

Nudist smoker? The problem of where to put your smokes is solved! From Modern Mechanix, 1938: Link - via Scribal Terror

Beer Myths.

Love beer? Here’s a list of the top 10 beer myths so you can win that bar bet: Beer Myth 7: The best beers are in green bottles. As it turns out, brown bottles protect the beer from the light much better than green bottles or clear bottles. This myth comes from when there was a [...]

World?s Tallest Man Marries.

Bao Xishun, who at 7 foot 9 in (2.36 m) is the world’s tallest man just got married! The world’s tallest man has married a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday. Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married 5-foot-6 saleswoman ...

Google's driving direx from New York to Dublin, Ireland

Cory Doctorow: Hilarious: ask Google Maps for driving directions from New York to Dublin, Ireland and they'll give them to you, including this step, "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi." Weirdly, they instruct you to swim to France, drive the Chunnel to England, then take a ferry back to Ireland. ...

Singapore builds floating towers

Far East Organization has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture to build this residential high-rise which stands at 153 meters tall. I'm all for clever architecture but this thing looks insane. I'm pretty sure they're breaking one or two laws of physics. Can you imagine living here? ...

Duck Feeds Koi.

This baby duck is feeding fish that are twice his size! I don?t know if its duck feed or fish food, but they seem to enjoy it. Just too cute not to share. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Videosift

Schoolgirls bullied into stripping online...

Marines Ban Big Tattoos

Dog Saved Owner with Heimlich Maneuver.

When Debbie Parkhurst, 45, was home alone and choked on an apple, her dog came to her rescue by performing a Heimlich maneuver! “It was lodged pretty tight because I couldn’t breathe,” she said. “I tried to do the thing where you lean over a chair and give yourself the Heimlich, ...

World?s Tallest Log Cabin.

Nikolai Sutyagin, a one-time gangster, built what is believed to be the world’s tallest fire hazard … er, log cabin: 13 floors and 144 feet tall! "First I added three floors but then the house looked ungainly, like a mushroom," he said. "So I added another and it still didn’t ...

Hexagon Spotted on Saturn.

Astronomers have spotted a hexagon-shaped feature on Saturn’s north pole. “This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer ...

Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner

An anonymous reader writes "An airliner jet traveling from Chili to New Zealand early today were in for an interesting ride. Flaming space debris — the remains of a Russian satellite — came hurtling back to Earth not far from a commercial jet on its way to Auckland, New Zealand. Here's further ...

Recreational Drugs and their level of harm

March 24, 2007 Just how dangerous are recreational drugs and what?s the most effective way to classify drugs as the basis for law enforcement? With the technologies for creating new substances now well ahead of the law?s ability to even recognise them, it?s clearly time for a new way of doing things. ...

Sewage 'tsunami' kills four in Gaza...

Pauchy Mudflap Man sticker

Cory Doctorow: The Mudflap Man sticker is a nice answer to the classic Mudflap Woman silhouette. Link (via Lawgeek)

300 Trailer - PG

Despite not having seen the actual film yet I can wholeheartedly endorse this trailer for 300 - done in PG style. There are actually several other parodies out there worth hunting down.