Chilean designers MusucHouse made this very cool sleeping bag jacket called Selk’bag!

Now you don’t have to give up your bed – you can walk around in your sleeping bag!

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In Japan, geeks are even treated like gods by cafes that specially cater to them:

Maid cafes dot Akihabara, which has become a second home for Tokyo’s "otaku" — roughly translated as "geeks." They’re known for their devotion to comics and computer games and can easily be identified by their standard outfit of track suit, knapsack and spectacles.

In the cafes, girls dressed in frilly frocks inspired by comic-book heroines wait hand and foot on customers, mostly male, who might have once been obsessed with naughty schoolgirls and nurses.

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The Internet’s got everything, including a website for the International Sand Collectors Society – where members collect (what else) sand!

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Here’s a (partial) list of Brokeback Mountain parodies at YouTube:

Brokeback to the Future by the Chocolate Cake City, a group of students at Emerson College
Broke Mac Mountain by the Mighty McPilgrim
Brokeback Goldmine, a SNL parody

And some spoof posters:

The Great American Smoke Out
Kickback Mountain

Don DeBlieux, a paleontologist for the Utah Geological Survey, discovered that a scorpion emerged from a plaster mold of a fossil.

The scorpion had been accidentally trapped inside the mold for 15 months without food or water!

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Conservation International scientists went to the remote Foja Mountains of western New Guinea and discovered dozens of "Lost World" new species.

“It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” marveled Bruce Beehler, vice president of CI’s Melanesia Center for Biodiversity Conservation and a co-leader of the expedition. “The first bird we saw at our camp was a new species. Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two Long-Beaked Echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.”

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Take a look at these crochet puppets of the Veggie Liberation Army.

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From the website:

The Koontz Coffee Pot was built by Bert Koontz in 1927 … But with declining traffic on the Lincoln Highway, the Coffee Pot went from lunch stand, to Greyhound station, to seedy bar in the 1970s, to a diner which closed in the mid-1980s. It sat abandoned and deteriorating … for many years.

Miraculously, Bert’s great nephew (Dick Koontz), with assistance from Lincoln Highway supporters, arranged for the Pot to be relocated across the street at the Fairgrounds.

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Way before email, during World War II there was v-mail or Victory Mail:

There was no real secret to the v-mail process; in fact it was simple, the soldiers wrote their letters on a form provided and it was then photographed onto microfilm which was simply flown to the USA. A reel of 16mm microfilm could contain 18,000 letters and in terms of bulk and weight the roll of film took up only a fraction of what 18,000 real letters would take. Upon arrival in the USA the letters were printed from the film and then posted onward to the addressee.

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There’s something fishy about that woman – turned out she’s smuggling live fish!

"During the search customs officers became suspicious after hearing ‘flipping’ noises coming from the vicinity of her waist," the Australian Customs Service said in a press release. "An examination revealed 15 plastic water-filled bags holding fish allegedly concealed inside a purpose-built apron."

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So cute: baby aardvark born in Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha on Sept 9, 2005.

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