Conan O’Brien noticed how he looked like Finnish then presidential candidate for re-election Tarja Halonen, and so he jokingly supported her campaign:

"Why do I support Tarja Halonen? Because she’s got the total package: a dynamic personality, a quick mind, and most importantly — my good looks," the comedian, whose show is broadcast on cable in Finland, said.

Now that Halonen is re-elected, Conan is going to Finland and receive an award for "the most suprising and entertaining TV personality in Finland".

Link to KATU Article | CNN Article One & Two.

This is a story that will undoubtedly will inspire a Lifetime made for tv movie:

Kevin Stephan always wanted to find the right way to thank the off-duty nurse who got his 11-year-old heart beating again after a baseball bat struck him in the chest in 1999.

Nine days ago, the now-17-year-old Kevin found the perfect way to thank Penny Brown.

He returned the life-saving favor, rushing out of a Depew restaurant kitchen to administer the Heimlich maneuver as Brown choked on her lunch.

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Angry over what he paid for a new Ford Escape, Gerald Georgettis allegedly drove his new car through the dealership’s showroom. If that’s not bad enough, he then lit it on fire!

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This small crop doesn’t do Cedric’s artwork justice – see a larger pic: here.

Team Sandtastic, professional sand sculpture artists, created this snow maze for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah. Cool! Link

In addition to cool collection of Alice in Wonderland art, this website has a neat background story on the famous tale:

In Carroll’s original (1862-1864) manuscript for the story, Alice’s Adventures Underground, which he personally illustrated, Alice was not the little blonde girl in a pinafore we have come to know from subsequent illustrations.

Instead, she was originally a winsome, dark haired child, whose likeness had been patterned after ten year old Alice Liddell, the child of a church colleague, for whom the Alice stories had been originally created.

Wonderland background story | Artwork

From the website:

This beauty is a fully functional machine gun with TWELVE rotating barrels and a live action trigger. Loads 12 bands per barrel for a whopping 144 rubber bands that shoot off as fast as you can turn the handle! Great fun for kids of all ages. MORE than just an amazing machine, this is a true work of art.

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Oleg created this with fractals! See his gallery here: Link.

I’ve blogged about Martin and Muñoz shoes before, now checkout their snowglobes.

Gerrit and Martijn used over 20,000 lego bricks and spent 300 hours building this playable pinball machine! Link

What do you get if you strap a rocket to a bike?

Pickens, president of rocket-design firm Orion Propulsion, created his first rocket bike with fellow speed enthusiast Glenn May by bolting a 35-pound-thrust rocket engine to Pickens’s bike — enough power for a gentle push down the road.

That project didn’t kill anyone, so Pickens got himself another bike and stepped it up, attaching a 200-pound-thrust engine capable of blasting him from 0 to 60 miles an hour in five seconds — fast enough to beat a Porsche in a drag race.

Link | CNN News Article