What a wonderful start to a new life together! (Thanks Kandra!)

Erwin Olaf’s 2002 photograph series titled "Royal Blood", featured in the Bilbao Art Centre, is definitely intriguing (a little controvery never hurts anyone!). This one above is called "Di" - notice the car emblem embedded in the arm. Link

Judith Schaechter’s Parables in Glass is no mere mortal’s stained glass. She’s elevated this artform into a new level. Link (via Transbuddha)

The Church of Scientology built a huge vault into a a mountainside in New Mexico, marked by huge aerial signpost of their symbol.

According to the Washington Post:

"Buried deep in these New Mexico hills in steel-lined tunnels, said to be able to survive a nuclear blast, is what Scientology considers the future of mankind," ABC’s Tom Jarriel said in his report. "Seen here for the first time, thousands of metal records, stored in heat-resistant titanium boxes and playable on a solar-powered turntable, all containing the beliefs of Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard."

Link (via BoingBoing)

Doctors at the Lyon and Amiens hospital in France had performed the world’s first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, who had suffered extensive surgery in a dog attack.

Link to CNN Article.

Aristarkh Chernyshev created the Teleblaster 1.0, a television that allows you to watch TV programs "both in the usual mode and in a special video processing mode" that generates a weird video-effects synchronously with sound. Link

Invented in 1930s, Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid material. It is 99.8% air and is 1000-less dense than glass. An ounce of this material can cover an area of 10 football fields!

That’s not its only amazing property: it has 39 times the insulation factor of fiberglass.

Link to Berkeley National Laboratory’s Aerogel Website

Artist Boris Bally said:

"Most aboriginal cultures, including this country’s own native Americans, have adorned themselves with jewelry made of various animal parts such as feathers, fur, leather, claws, bones, or teeth. These served as talismanic charms and, in the form of the archetypal "bear-claw necklace," gave a hunter/warrior the spirit and strength of the animal whose disabled "weapons" he was wearing. Such a necklace was perceived as a symbol of bravery, strength and respect"

He made his "urban mojo" from 100 hand-gun triggers! Link (via Jaf Project)

Canadian artist Yee took 1 year to design and create the world’s most complex paper model: a working (all parts move properly) V8 engine made from 5756 pieces of paper! Link (via BoingBoing)

That’s 8x more megapixels than today’s best digital camera!

Link to Antenna Science News Article | Live Science Article | Chris Voigt’s website

From the website: "the soft plastic face [of Gloworm] contains three types of phthalates (DEHP, DBP, and DNOP)."

Scary. Link

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In test studies, doctors say that women who used it "felt a tingling or throbbing followed by a strong desire to have sex immediately after spraying their noses."

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This Japanese website has cool paper models of Harry Potter’s Buckbeak (with moving wings!) for about $10, Knight Bus for $16, and Quidditch Stadium for $21. Link (via Paper Forest)

" Tracking the signal, the scientists found a 50 by 20 kilometer iceberg that had collided with an underwater peninsula and was slowly scraping around it.

‘Once the iceberg stuck fast on the seabed it was like a rock in a river,’ said scientist Vera Schlindwein. ‘The water pushes through its crevasses and tunnels at high pressure and the iceberg starts singing.’ "

The MP3 is speeded up to make the sounds audible to humans.

Link: Ice Harmonies | MP3 File (via WFMU Beware of the Blog)

Poland’s new government decided to reveal top secret Warsaw Pact military archives, including plans of a seven-day nuclear holocaust war plan between NATO and the Soviet bloc. Link

From the website: "In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy."

This explosion is that of the mysterious star is called V838 Monocerotis, as seen by Hubble. Link

This is one of Tim Flach’s interesting animal photos (the other one I like is the elephant! Check it out: Link

Marc De Repentigny built these awesome fully transformable Transformers’ Halloween costumes. Link (via BoingBoing)

Want to start your very own Google Print? Then you need Kirtas Technologies’ APT BookScan 1200.

This cool machine can scan your book at a breakneck speed of 1200 pages per hour!

It has a 16.6 megapixel camera and it costs $150k.

Link | Video (via Red Ferret)

From the website: "Surprise and amuse your guests by offering a chilled beverage from Motoart’s "Get Bombed" table. Hand crafted from a rare WWII Navy practice bomb and a B-52 jet engine turbine fan, it is artfully combined with a mirror and 1/2" green glass table-top. Custom metallic powder coat colors available. This is a very limited edition piece."

Price? A mere $4,900. Link

Cathie Jung wore her first corset for her wedding in 1959. Now she wears it 24/7, and when it becomes loose fitting, she would wear a smaller one. The result? She now has a 15-inch waist. Link to Cathie’s website (take a look at the X-ray pics!)

Notably, she doesn’t have the world record on smallest waist ever. This belongs to Ethel Granger (13-inch). Link to Ethel’s website.

This tower of sugary cubeyness is Rachel Whiteread’s Embankment, shown at the Tate Modern in London. Link | How it was built