If you start knitting this now, you too can have your very own "Sexy Turkey Hat" for Thanksgiving 2009.

Etsy seller Angela Catirina, who is a force to be reckoned with in the world of crafts, is selling the pattern to this unbelievably awesome headwear (I dare you to find something more awesome, folks): Link | More about Angela at ExtremeCraft

Photo: Noah Dylan Goldblatt [Flickr]

Toxel blog has a pretty nifty post about some clever and creative bench advertisements (benchvertising?) - My favorite is the Kit Kat Bench above.

Link - via Chair Blog

What is it with pie charts and the webbernets? This Bizarro comic panel reminds me of a post Miss Cellania wrote for our pal mental_floss last summer: Fun with Pie Charts.

For more Bizarro goodness, check out Dan Piraro's website and blog.

Commuters driving to work early today on the Palmetto Expressway in Florida encountered something weird: thousands of shoes on the road:

According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Pat Santangelo, thousands of pairs of used shoes mysteriously appeared at 7:42 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway between the Bird Road and Miller Drive exits.

Employees of the Florida Department of Transportation's Road Rangers service, which is meant to provide roadside assistance, managed to push all the shoes into one lane using large brooms.

A private contractor was hired to use a front-end loader to pick up the shoes by the dozen and load them into a large dump truck, Santangelo said.

''At this point, no one's claimed the shoes,'' Santangelo said.

http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/834846.html

Can you sleepwalk your way into crime? That's what happened to Adam Ball, who sleepwalked into an underaged girl's bed:

Just over a year ago, Alan Ball went to a New Year's Eve house party, drank heavily and fell asleep on a sofa.

At some point during the night, he got up, went upstairs and climbed into bed with an under-age girl, whom he kissed on the lips.

After a year in which this lorry-driving father lost his job and was able to see his five-year-old daughter only during supervised visits, a judge at Preston Crown Court this week cleared him of sexual assault after the 35-year-old claimed he was sleepwalking at the time of the incident and had no memory of the events.

Marcus Dunk of The Daily Mail has the story: Link

(Photo: Bruce Adams)

Take that, sweet mystery of rock 'n roll. Math has just solved the Holy Grail of Rock: the mysterious "A Hard Day's Night" chord.

Dalhousie University math professor Jason Brown applied Fourier transform to solve the Beatles' riddle: there was a mystery piano!

... the frequencies he found didn’t match the known instrumentation on the song. “George played a 12-string Rickenbacker, Lennon had his six string, Paul had his bass…none of them quite fit what I found,” he explains. “Then the solution hit me: it wasn’t just those instruments. There was a piano in there as well, and that accounted for the problematic frequencies.”

Link

Photo: IanVisits [Flickr]

Inspired by a scene of abandoned London in the zombie horror flick 28 Days Later, Ian Mansfield of IanVisits blog decided to bike down to London early Christmas morning and snap a few photos. This one above is of Piccadilly Circus, in London's West End, completely devoid of humans.

Link | More at Ian's Flickr photoset

There are two remarkable things about this BBC news report from Edinburgh, Scotland. First, a man tried to break into a flat carrying a pitch fork. And second, he was chased away by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.

"Thor" was actually Torvald Alexander, who was dressed-up for a New Year's dress party. Link

If you're curious, Telegraph has a photo of Torvald in his Thor costume.

Psycho - Shower Scene (may not be suitable for younger audience) [YouTube Link]

Motion picture decency standards in the 1960 didn't allow for things like nude women being stabbed to death in showers. Consequently, Hitchcock was forced to create the impression of nudity and violence without actually showing a breast, a buttock, or a knife puncturing skin. The result is a terrifying masterpiece of a montage. And even though it's probably the most analyzed (and parodied) 45 seconds in film history, we're willing to bet the following tidbits slipped past you.

Forget the bloody corpse in the bathtub: what really got "Psycho" censors worked up was the toilet. Just before stepping into that fateful shower, Marion tears up an incriminating note and flushes it. Hitchcock's close-up of the swirling commode water was the first ever allowed in an American film.

What looks like blood funneling down the drain is actually Bosco chocolate syrup. Hitchcock thought it looked more real in black-and-white than the fake stuff. Tastier, too.

The scene is composed of more than 90 shots seen in 70 different camera angles. It took Hitchcock and his crew an entire week to film it. To put that into perspective: The entire film took only six weeks.

The woman who played Janet Leigh's body double in about half of the shower-scene shots was named Myra Jones. In a sad case of life imitating art, Jones was stabbed to death in 1988. Her killer? A mentally disturbed handyman who targeted older women. He'd murdered at least one other before her - that police know about.

After the release of "Psycho," Hitchcock received an irate letter from a man whose daughter had refused to take baths after seeing the French thriller "Les Diaboliques" (in which a man is drowned in a tub). After seeing "Psycho," she refused to take showers as well. Hitchcock's reply? "Send her to the dry cleaners."

Although popular with most audiences, "Psycho" was reviled by ophthalmologists. Eye doctors everywhere pointed out that a corpse's pupil dilate, yet - in a stark close-up of her face after her supposedly deadly shower - Janet Leigh's eyes remain contracted. Ever the obsessed technician, Hitchcock listened, using dilating eyedrops for stiffs in all future films.

The article above was written by Ransom Riggs, as part of a longer article Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in the Nov-Dec 2006 issue of mental_floss, published here with permission. Visit mental_floss for more fun stuff everyday!

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It doesn't get much stranger than this, folks: Here's SHIKITO in Brown, which from what I can gather is a cute little turd-shaped vinyl mascot figure by Superdeux from STRANGEco.

The "Lauda Shikito Salvatorem" byline in the backside (where else?) of the cute lil' turd means "All Praise Shikito the Savior!" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MX6MJ8?ie=UTF8&tag=neatorama-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000MX6MJ8

Moonlights are wonderful glowing orbs (or half-orbs) that give off a gentle glow of light, just like its namesake. They are made from polyethylene spheres 13 to 30 inches (33 to about 75 cm) in diameter and can be used indoors and outdoors (or even floating in a pool).

Moonlights aren't cheap, though - an orb can set you back anywhere from $325 to $1000 - but unlike the Moon, they are guaranteed to illuminate even if the sky is cloudy: Link - via Fortune Small Business | More pics at DVICE - via musecrack

It's hard to describe Candice Tripp's art - it's a little dark and macabre but with a touch of gentle humor. This one is titled "The Escape" - and yes, that's a splotch of ink on the girl's head: Link - via Misadventures in Crazytown

This Stone Door Knocker at Chiasso is like Flintstones meet The Jetsons. This handmade door knocker is made from stainless steel plate and wire handle enveloping a regular ol' river rock.

Being trendy will cost you though, the stone door knocker goes for $98, which means you have to be stone cold rich to have one for your house: Link

There's no confusion as to when your battery is done chargin' if you use this Toasty Charger by Hyun-A Ko. The concept design even has a handy dandy color coded LED light to let you know that your battery is being toasted, ... er charged: Link by Design Milk