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Unlikely Friends.

Taman Safari animal hospital in Java, Indonesia have four babies in their care who normally wouldn’t get along. A pair of baby orangutans and a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs (both endangered species) were rejected by their mothers, and are being raised in the hospital’s nursery, where they became inseparable friends. In the wild, tigers eat orangutans. Link

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Manure SMS Lets Farmers Warn Neighbors.

Guerilla Innovation has this story about a new Danish service called GylleSMS ("ManureSMS"):

GylleSMS ("ManureSMS") is a new Danish SMS service designed to optimize the relationship between farmers and their neighbours.

The popular service enable farmers to send their neighbours an SMS containing information about where and when they are spreading manure (the smelly fertilizer stuff that can spoil a beautiful day at the countryside).

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Brass Knuckle Wine Opener.

These "Bourgeois Brass Knuckle" wine openers are made by Jonathan Sabine, currently on display at the Vest Collective: Link – via Design Sponge

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Dirty Dancing Wedding Dance.

We had the Thriller wedding dance before on Neato … this one just as awesome: Dirty Dancing First Dance at Julia and James’ wedding. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Julia’s website

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Dog Pees Upside Down!

From the website:

Mrs Chen, of Changchun city, says 18-month-old ‘Baby’ began peeing in the new position just three months ago.

“He used to pee as other dogs do. But one day I found him putting both hind legs up onto the tree to pee," she told East Asia Business News.

"I thought maybe that was only for the one day. But from then on, unexpectedly, he would pee in that acrobatic position.”

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Remote Controlled Pigeon.

Chinese scientists at the Shadong University of Science and Tech can now command a pigeon’s flight through remote control:

Scientists sent signals by computer to the implants that mirror signals generated by the brain to control body movement. These signals stimulate different areas of the pigeon’s brain and cause it to respond to the command, the researchers said.

Chief scientist Su Xuecheng said it is the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world.

Text (Image: CNNB)

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Giant Klan Sculpture in Venice.

This giant 75-foot (23 m) tall Klan sculpture in Venice, called "Ceremonial Crying System PV" (2005) was made by Sislej Xhafa. Link – via WMMNA

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Monster Trash Can.

This cardboard trash can is from 1972.

Found here.

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Esc 3D Animation.

In the same vein as the famous "Animator vs. Animation" [YouTube] and the sequel [YouTube], here is a 3-D version called Esc by Justin Henton at the Emily Carr Institute.

Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Justin’s website – Thanks David R!

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867-5309/Jenny in All US Area Codes.

In the 1980s, a song "867-5309/Jenny" by the band Tommy Tutone sparked a fad of people dialing the phone number asking for the girl named Jenny.

A few years back, someone called that number on every single area codes in the United States, and recorded the result: Link – via GorillaMask

Other Links: Tommy Tutone Song Drove Phone Companies Nuts at Snopes | 867-5309/Jenny [wiki]

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The Kosher Gym.

Only in Brooklyn, Folks!

As seen on the aNYthing glob.

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Weird Hammer Hanging Effect

It’s tricky but it can be done. The weight of the hammer balances and holds the whole system.

You can watch the video in Metacafe on how it is done – via My Confined Space

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Manish Arora's Sci-Fi Make-up.

Indian fashion designer Manish Arora created this out-of-this-world (or is it Tron?) make-up for/using MAC Cosmetics at the London Fashion Week.

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Mental_floss Hangman Worksheet.

Check your hangman-playing skill (and history knowledge about people who were hanged) with mental_floss‘ new worksheet by Alex Scordelis.

Link – Thanks Will!

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Viktor and Rolf's Haute Couture Comes with Own Light and Audio Systems.

For their autumn/winter 2007 collection, Dutch avant garde fashion designers Viktor and Rolf created this:

The show started from the premise that each model should be a self-contained fashion show, so they hobbled down the catwalk attached to scaffolding rigged with spotlights and speakers piping out a different tune for each ensemble.

Link – via Boing Boing

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High End Pet Store in Hot Water Because of Its Name.

Lori Pacchiano, the founder of High Maintenance Bitch, high-end pet shop got the ire of plenty of people over its name, and oh, probably about a million bucks worth of publicity!

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(Image: Gilbert W. Arias / Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

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Gecko Love: Bleak yet Funny Ad for Ceiling Boards.

This ad for Shera ceiling boards in Thailand uses some dark, dark humor. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via ETTF

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New Snow Angel Record.

More than 8,900 people frantically flapped in the snow on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at the State Capitol grounds in North Dakota to break the record for the most snow angels ever made.

The previous record was 1,791 people (also in North Dakota!)

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The Egg Chair is Good for Your Back.

The ErgoChair promises that if you sit on its egg, it won’t hatch – rather, your back will feel better!

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Guy Conned Magazine to Run Fake Gucci Ad.

This guy submitted a fake Gucci ad with a photo of himself to a Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung and told the newspaper to bill $50,000 to Gucci. Ooh, the nerve!

Link | ABC News article – via Boing Boing

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The Helotes Volcano: Giant Mulch Pile Continues to Burn.

An 80-feet tall giant pile of wood chip and mulch in Helotes, Texas, dubbed "the Helotes Volcano" has been burning since the day after Christmas 2006!

The fire itself has become a sort of perverse tourist attraction. We drove out to gawk at the scene during a weekend trip to San Antonio, and we had company – other visitors who want to see a real live environmental disaster close up.

It’s like looking at a miniature volcano, a vast charred moonscape with stinking smoke billowing out of craters and fissures across its surface. From upwind, it’s kind of interesting. From downwind, it’s unbearable.

The pile took years to create. It’s owned by a private contractor, licensed to dispose of brush and debris cleared to make way for new homes and developments in the fast-growing Hill Country.

With the drought in recent years, though, emergency bans outlawed burning the waste in manageable batches, Mr. Allan said. So the pile grew bigger. And bigger. And bigger.

"Everybody knew it was a problem," he said. The pile grew into a mulch mountain, as tall as an eight-story building, as long as two football fields.

Links: Dallas Morning News | MySA (Image: John Davenport / Express News)

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Lightsaber Umbrella.

Korean company Funshop has these light saber umbrellas for Jedis who are afraid of the rain: Link – via The Red Ferret Journal

Update 2/27/07: Better yet: it’s the Blade Runner umbrella – how did I forget?

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Friends Broke Into House and Painted a Birthday Present Mural.

For Fatty’s birthday, his friends broke into his house and painted a giant mural of himself as a birthday present! Link – via reddit

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Pong Table.

Moritz Waldemeyer created this pong table with embedded LED lights and touchpads to create a truly interactive gaming table.

The Pong table is a dining table made from DuPont Corian with an aluminium base. There are 2500 LEDs integrated into the table top, together with two track pads they recreate the classic Pong game. When turned off, the integrated technology disappears completely, leaving a simple, beautiful and practical dining table.

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Verbarius Clock Spells Out the Time.

Another cool clock from Art. Lebedev studio (this one’s making the round on the Net):

The Verbarius clock answers the question “What time is it?” writing a different reply every time it’s asked: it’s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.

Link – via Technabob

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Half-Life 2 Fans Rejoice!

Presenting The Ballad of Black Mesa, a thumping well-sampled tour-de-force created by Mighty Crane Films…

(Push Play or transport your H.E.V.-suited self over to YouTube to watch.)

Link found at Kotaku via Blues News. Thanks for the Valve-y goodness, guys!

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Images from Mars.

The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta space probe {wiki} in 2004 to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It should reach the comet by 2014. Rosetta has just passed Mars, and sent back some beautiful photographs.

In the lead image above, an orange (red), green and near-UV colour filter composite image of Mars is shown; the UV channel (the blue color) has been enhanced. The enhanced UV signal clearly shows the presence of the cloud system covering most of the Martian disk.

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Ant Wallpaper.

What’s so neat about this classic-styled wallpaper?

… Upon a closer look, the details are made of millions of ants!

Designed by Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi: Link – via Why Not?

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Jen Stark's Paper Artwork.

I am in complete awe with Jen Stark’s amazing artwork, made out of regular multi-colored construction paper.

If you only click on just one link today, this should be it: Link - via Make

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1-Click: Japanese Mouse Cursor.

Now, for something weird: a bunch of old Japanese men carrying a giant mouse cursor! Watch what happens when you click or don’t move the mouse for a while! Link [Flash] – via Glubibulga

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