From the website:

A dragon-like dinosaur named after Harry Potter's alma mater has performed a bit of black magic on its own family tree, say paleontologists who unveiled the "Dragon King of Hogwarts" on Monday in Albuquerque.

The newly described horny-headed dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia lived about 66 million years ago in South Dakota, just a million years short of the extinction of all dinosaurs. But its flat, almost storybook-style dragon head has overturned everything paleontologists thought they knew about the dome-head dinos called pachycephalosaurs.

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Carl of theWAREHOUSE has a neat collection of Ripped Off Logos and Stolen Images. (Thanks Carl!)

Yes, the Net has everything, including an annual competition of DIY stickers. This one above, an entry by Geo from Germany of a funny cartoon character jimmying a showcase lock, won third place.

Link (Thanks Yayo!)

Byron sent me this photo of a two-tailed lizard found in his home in Orlando, Florida (Thanks Byron!).

For other lizard curiosities, see previously on Neatorama: Weird Animals: Toad with Tail and Lizard with Two Tails.

Theispot.com showcases works of over 1,100 commercial illustrators from over 16 countries. You can browse by subject or artist, and even buy illustrations online!

Link (Thanks Dave Tabler!)

Fred Eerdekens is a Belgian artist who elevates shadow into an artform. Can you believe that those the shadows of those squiggly copper lines above spell out a sentence? Amazing!

Link (Thanks Raul Sensato!)

Cameron Kelly proposed to his girlfriend Angie Kreimer using a 113-page self-published book titled "50 Reasons Why You Should Marry Me and 51 Reasons Why I Should Marry You". He created the book at Lulu.com, a print-on-demand publishing company.

Reasons that Kelly, 27, felt Kreimer, 28, should marry him included:
# I clean the bathroom every week.
# I'm going to look like Sean Connery when I'm 65.
# You don't even have to change your initials!

Reasons, meanwhile, that Kreimer was meant for Kelly included:
# I love the way you say "crayons."
# I'm more in love with you now than ever.

"This must be the most romantic book ever published on Lulu," says Henry Hutton, a spokesman for Lulu (www.lulu.com), the web site used to produce it.

She said yes, by the way.

Link | Free eBook at Lulu (via Collision Detection)

Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada, hosts two great sand sculpture contests: the Vancouver Sun Tournament of Sand Sculpture Champions and the World Championships of Sand Sculpture.

Amazing sand sculptures from both competitions will be on display until October 9, 2006. The one above is called "The Arms Race".

See more: Link | Official Website (via Mighty Optical Illusions, Thanks Vurdlak!)

Max Dürsteler of Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland won 1st prize at the 2006 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest with this illusion.

Also, don't miss the rest of the winners of the contest: Link (via Illusions Etc., Thanks Walt!)

Professor Solomon outlines his 12 Principles for finding lost objects like a bloodhound. The first one is called "Don't Look for It":

Something’s lost, and your first thought—your basic instinct—is to look for it. You’re ready to start rummaging about. To hunt for it in a random, and increasingly frenetic, fashion. To ransack your own house.

This is the most common mistake people make.
And it can doom their search from the start.

I know you’re eager to find that lost item. But not yet. Don’t look for it yet.

Wait until you have some idea where to look.

Link (Thanks Prof. Solomon!)

London Stone, mentioned by Shakespeare, Blake, and Dickens, is a mysterious, neglected limestone block in the middle of London.

It was recently rescued from a building due to be demolished - and a good thing too, since legends said that the fortune of the city is tied to the survival of the stone!

This relates to the myth that the stone was part of an altar built by Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of London. This might be unlikely, but then again no one really knows its origin.

"So long as the stone of Brutus is safe, so long shall London flourish," says the proverb.

Link (via Fortean Times)

See this quirky art sculpture in action: http://www.adamjanes.com/comfyshow/comfyphotopages/comfyphoto02.html | Adam Janes' website (via Jaf Project)

Blatte's website has an awesome collection of fractals! This one's aptly titled "Green Dragon" and it's available as a desktop wallpaper. Link

Yes - that's a Google Maps satellite photo of a big ship on dry land in Whampoa, Hong Kong.

Turns out that it's the landmark of the Whampoa Garden housing estate - the ship is a tribute to a dockyard that used to be on that site.

The ship itself is actually a shopping center (what else?).