Yes, it's a real hamlet in Austria and it's pronounced "fooking". The hamlet is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century - his name is Focko. Link If you can't go to Austria, you can go to this village instead. It's in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Link If you like those two, chances are you'd like this List of Interesting or Unusual Place Names found in Wikipedia. My favorites are: Assawoman, Virginia and Buttahatchee River, Alabama. |
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| The coin on the right is a quarter "shrunk" by a machine appropriately called a Quarter Shrinker. How does it work? By rapidly discharging a high amount of electricity to generate a very powerful and rapidly changing electromagnetic field, which then actually reforms the metal of the coin. Very cool. Link |
| Bee Dogs is the "premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes." Link |
Jetped is what happens when you put a jet engine (with an afterburner, of course) on a goped, add a large dose of insanity and substract all common sense. Jetped can reach speed of 70+ mph. http://www.jetped-boarders.co.uk/ |
A handmade PC, keyboard, and monitor crafted by a Russian craftsman. Link (via Boing Boing) |
| The pic on the left is that of Tracy Clancy, a proud owner of one of the top-rated mullets at RateMyMullet.com. As the domain name succinctly describe, it is a website dedicated to mullets. If you don't have one, you can even buy mullet wigs there. http://www.ratemymullet.com/show.php?id=9 |
A cool collection of bottle cap art, a "poor cousin to tramp art, quilting, and other established folk crafts" can be found here: Link |
| According to Skin Bag, Gore + Chic = Very Chic. As the name implies, it's a bag made from synthetic human skin, made to resemble a scalped body. It comes in all shades of human skin: black, asian, caucasian, etc complete with wrinkles, pimples, birthmarks and other skin imperfections. If you want one, go here: http://www.skinbag.net/skinbag-gb/index.html |
| Parasite Pals sells parasite stuffed animals, stationery, lunch boxes, air freshners and more - all modeled after human parasites! To the left is Tickles, the tapeworm, that lives in probably half of all of us (if not more). Link |
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Noli Novak is the artist who draws those famous Wall Street Journal's stipple portraits. She's an amazing artist. Link |
| This funny, short video clip created by Oliver Manzi is called "Non-Fat". It is the winner of 2004 DepicT! Can You Do It In 90 Seconds competition. http://www.depict.org/wo-bin/WebObjects/Depict.woa/wa/representation?object=4822 |
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