Kids, pay attention: if you don’t keep yourself clean, things can grow on you!

Last September I went alone on a canoe trip. On the very first day my canoe turned over in a rapid and I lost some of my equipment in the water. Fortunately, I managed to save my camping gear and my food. But I lost all my spare clothes. So I knew I would have to wear the same outfit for the rest of the trip.

Six days later, I was finally back home. The first thing I wanted to do was to change clothes and take a shower. But when I took off my sweater, to my amazement, I could see something sticking out of my belly button! I couldn’t believe it: something was growing in there!

Link – via Miss Cellania

The residents of Beloit, Wisconsin, re-created George Seurat’s famous painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte":

Beloiters brought to life the famous painting by the French artist Saturday afternoon in an effort to promote an August event planned by Friends of Riverfront. And while people were positioned similarly along the Rock River, Beloit’s version of Seurat’s work had its own flair.

There was a wooden turtle silhouette instead of a monkey, a woman jogging in the background instead of a girl running, and a state Senator dressed in red, white and blue standing near the river instead of a women dressed in period clothing.

But a few similarities remained. There were boats along the river, including a sailboat, plenty of hats and umbrellas, and yes, even a few well-behaved dogs.

Link – via Cellar Image of the Day

Why settle for a plain and boring porta-potty portable toilet when you can squeeze one more opportunity to advertise your brand? Yes – with Micro Target Media, even restrooms aren’t safe from ad-men anymore …

Link – via Strange New Products

Otto Seibold re-tells the familiar story of Alice in Wonderland in a fantastically drawn Flash animation. Highly recommended: Link [Flash] | Otto’s website: Feel Good Anyway design studio – via Presurfer

From the website:

The world’s most challenging puzzle meets the world’s most challenged man. A combination of two famous icons. Can you solve this Rubik’s-Simpson’s challenge? "D’OH!"?

Link – via Random Good Stuff

Why use ink when you can use the sun? A neat collection of solar tattoos by Bulletinboard Forum: Link – via Attu

Ludovic Collin took this awesome confocal micrograph of a nerve cell for the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Image Award 2006:

A cluster of special nerve cells called cerebellar granule cells, growing in culture. These cells naturally gather together, and when placed in a culture dish covered in a particular protein, they start sending out long projections (yellow/green) as they would in the developing brain.

Link – via Cynical-C

It took 67 people, 4 hours, and 390 photos to assemble a 3 minute stop-motion video of space invaders, the human version.

Link – via Metafilter

From the website:

Of course we all know the Daleks are the real stars of Dr. Who. With a toilet plunger in one hand and a elongated egg beater in the other, Daleks are some of the deadliest cyborgs in the galaxy. Bitter from being mutated by radiation and stuffed inside an inferior robot body, the Kaled people hate the Doctor (and staircases) and are bent on universal domination…

Now you can have your own infra-red controlled Daleks: Link – via Bibi’s Box

Phillip’s fantastic artwork are done entirely in biro ballpoint pens! This one is titled Disco Penguin, and is cleverly captioned:

Well you can tell by the way that he walks his walk, he’s a flightless bird, no time to squawk.

Link – via Boing Boing

By now, you all probably have heard of Zinedine Zidane’s infamous headbutting of Marco Matterazi during the 2006 World Cup final.

Now, Francisco Javier Moya Suárez has put together a nice compilation of fan-made animations and parodies of the infamous event in soccer history: Link – via Unique Daily