Welland auto dealer Chris Primerano has found a buyer for a vintage 1941 Buick that he saved from a scrap metal recycler but the new owner won't be taking possession of the vehicle for five or six weeks. That's because a mother raccoon has shredded the back seat and turned it into a nursery for her litter of kits. Kind-hearted Primerano will not issue an eviction notice and will allow the family to remain there until they are old enough to move out on their own. This is not the first time he has encountered wildlife in his car lot:

"One day, a guy wanted to buy a Cadillac we had for parts," he recalled. "I opened the hood of the car to put a battery in it. … There was a snake in the battery box."

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I hope you've got your Mothers Day gifts ordered from the NeatoShop already, because the big day is tomorrow. If you didn't get your order in on time, you can tell Mom about the gift that's coming with a nice card -or run out and buy her some flowers, and make sure you shop ahead for Fathers Day!

This week, probably the most popular post was 23 Facts You Might Not Know about The Dukes of Hazzard, by John Farrier.

Jill Harness brought us Five More Inventors Killed By Their Own Creations, as an extension of a previous list on the same subject.

Alex took a closer look at a fascinating photography project called Bureaucratics by Jan Banning.

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader gave us the history of the Berlin Wall in The Fall of the Wall.

From the Annals of Improbable Research came an answer that makes perfect sense in Striped Skunk Color Pattern Explained.

We learned some Biting Facts About Braces, courtesy of mental_floss magazine.

Last weekend, we had a caption contest on The Frowning Royal Wedding Flower Girl: What Was She Thinking About? Winning entries came from Kat C, ladybuggs, and Wndrin. T-shirts go to the winners who selected one. Congratulations all around!

In the What Is It? game this week, Anirban was first with the correct answer (but didn't select a shirt): this is a betel nut cutter. The funniest answer came from Chad Huskey, who said: "According to Futurama robots celebrate "Robanukah" So in that vein my assumption is this is a device used when 8 days after rolling off the assembly line male robots have their robo-bris." For that, he wins a t-shirt!

Looking for more great content? Be sure you keep up with NeatoBambino, where you can learn things like what the top baby names for 2010 were and which are the best countries for motherhood. Also, you'll  find some amazing talent at our literary blog Bit Lit, and at the Art Blog. Have a great Mothers Day!

SocialFlow analyzed 14.8 million public Tweets, and bitly links, posted between news about an unplanned presidential address (9:46 p.m. EST) and Obama’s address (11:30 p.m. EST) to see how dynamics of rumor creation played out during those critical hours on Twitter.

It all began at 10:24 p.m. EST when @keithurbahn tweeted that he heard from a trusted source that Osama Bin Laden was killed. Within 2 minutes 300 people had retweeted or reacted to this message. From there the news spread like wildfire. An hour in advance of President Obama's scheduled announcement of the event Twitter had trumped mainstream media in breaking the news of Bin Laden's death.

Link - Via Laughing Squid

Enal lives in a stilted house in Wangi, Indonesia. His friend lives in a penned off area of the sea. Although this is a remarkable scene for us, it might not be for Enal's people, the Bajau Laut. These Malay marine nomads have a symbiotic relationship with the ocean which photographer James Morgan explored. He wrote:

Traditional Bajau cosmology - a syncretism of animism and Islam - reveals a complex relationship with the ocean, which for them is a multifarious and living entity. There are spirits in currents and tides, in coral reefs and mangroves.

Morgan snapped this amazing shot to become The Telegraph's 2010 Travel Photographer of the Year.

Link and Article via This Is Colossal | Photo: James Morgan

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Stupid, obstinate sculpture. Can't you see that the dog wants to play fetch? He's even presented you with a stick. Just pick it up and throw it already!

via Geekosystem

Bill Musselman lives in Kentucky on the Ohio River. When it recently flooded, he certainly wasn't going to let take away his prized 1992 Porsche American Roadster. So he and a friend lashed together three bladders designed to carry 7,500 pounds. It worked!

Built by AirDock, Smokey and Bill used 3 bladders that make up a system for supporting a boat up to 27-feet in length and 7500 lbs in weight. With the turbo bodied cabriolet weighing in at less than half that amount, the bladders worked perfectly. “Two of the three bladders were in the back where the engine weight is. It was very well balanced. It was surprising.” Each bladder has ropes that tie/lash them together and then there is a separate pump going to each section

Link via Jalopnik | Photo: Porsche Purist

Blogger rossum recently played Zork for the first time in three decades, and it inspired him to make a tiny model of the Atari 810 drive. This one, however, reads SD cards. The picture above shows his drive sitting on top of an original 810.

Link via Geekosystem

Adam WarRock (who wrote a great song about not knowing anything about Doctor Who) snapped this shot of a cosplayer at WonderCon in San Francisco. Does the merger make Wolverine or Boba Fett look more impressive?

http://www.adamwarrock.com/2011/04/04/thanks-to-san-francisco-and-wondercon/ via Walyou

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Little Red Riding Hood

Sky Invaders

Spock in the Spork

Love, love, love these clever illustrations by Tang Yau Hoong. From the artist's series of The Art of Negative Space: http://tangyauhoong.com/negative-space/ - via Yay Every Day

Cartoonist Dan Hipp's mashups of Tintin book covers with today's pop culture themes are so cool that I think Captain Haddock would be hard pressed to come up with an insult. Blistering barnacles - I think Hergé himself would love this!

Check out Dan's blog here: Link - via Nerdcore

A few more after the jump:

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One YouTube commenter wrote "this is not funny in any way! the owner probably died? from an overdose of cuteness". Probably. Don't worry -- no cats were harmed in the creation of this funny video, made perfect by the dramatic theme music.

via The Mary Sue

Fresh Perspectives asks: Was Osama's death really only symbolic or will it change the war on terror? The panelists in this show are children. The result? Giggles-a-plenty.

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I'm sure you've heard of the old urban legend that guys think about sex every seven seconds. What a load of sexist poppycock! Guys don't only think of sex. They only think of sex, food, and sleep:

The median number of thoughts about sex by college-age men was 18 times a day to women's 10 times a day, the study found. But the men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more.

"In other words, there was nothing special about sexual thoughts," study researcher Terri Fisher, a psychologist at The Ohio State University, Mansfield, told LiveScience. "Males thought more about any of the health-related thoughts compared to females, not just thoughts about sex."

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Think you've got a bad pet (oh, sorry ... animal companion). Well, count yourself lucky because it ain't this cat, who seems to have deservedly earned the nickname "Cat From Hell":

"One of my clients was a big guy who moved in with his girlfriend who already had the cat," Galaxy told AOL Weird News. "He was trying to be understanding of the cat -- until it started peeing in his mouth while sleeping."

David Moye of AOL Weird News has the full story: Link (Photo: Animal Planet)