Ng Hak Beng collects over 400 Star Wars action figures and 50 vehicles in the past 28 years. Check out his massive collection: Link (via Fosfor and Unique Daily)

A very funny comic strip - check it out: Link (Thanks Matt FL!)

If you can't live without this awesome pink pig grill, then all you have to do is shell out $1495 and it's yours!

http://www.traegergrills.com/novelty2.htm (via J-Walk Blog)

A Japanese company called Sunamiya has developed a gun-shaped party cracker that shoots out a teddy bear. The teddy bear would then parachute down.

Developers hit on the idea after noticing that it had become a trend for people to throw teddy bears into the air instead of bouquets at wedding receptions.

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060429p2a00m0na032000c.html (via Exploding Aardvark)

From the website:

The operator of a local private shelter for cats says she's astonished by her latest charge - an affectionate six-legged orange tabby she's named Willoughby. ...

The year-old Willoughby somehow manages to get around with an extra two front legs. Two of the legs are fused together on one side from the shoulder down to the paw. The other two front limbs, which are much shorter, likely will have to be amputated, Hervey said.

"He can move them but he can't walk on them. Primarily he walks on the one side," she said. Hervey plans to schedule the short-haired cat for cosmetic surgery, which she estimates will cost about $2,000.

Link (via Look At This)

South African diamond company Nare Diamonds Ltd. uncovered a huge 235-carat diamond (the size of a hen's egg), just weeks after launching its operations:

The mine was shut down three years ago by another firm that went bankrupt, a spokesman said. During the mine's previous operations, the average size of stones was 1.14 carats.

"The large-sized gemstone is octahedron in shape and of very good quality according to a third party assessor," the statement to the London stock exchange said.

Link (via Kahsoon)

Yuehe Lin and Guodong Liu of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a technique to force a variety of enzymes to self-assemble layer-by-layer on a carbon nanotube. In the future, this technique may be used to develop an ultra sensitive "biosensor layered like a lasagna":

One promising application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) involves their use in the construction of chemical sensors and biosensors. In the present work, highly sensitive amperometric biosensors for glucose, choline, organophosphate pesticides and nerve agents based on self-assembly of enzymes on CNT electrode have been developed.

Link (via /.)

From the website:

A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk-show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk-show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363 | Whatever you do, don't miss the video | Transcript (via One Good Move)

Update 5/2/06: You can now thank Stephen for his "truthiness" performance here: Link (via Boing Boing)

On May 1, 2006, dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants" (in reference to the movie "A Day Without A Mexican", a million people across the United States protested a proposed bill making illegal immigration a felony. Roads were jammed, as many as 1 in 4 students skipped school, and many businesses were closed in solidarity and because their workers skipped work.

In Mexico and other Latin American countries, there was a one-day boycott ("Nothing Gringo Boycott") against US-made products as well as protests on the streets. There were reports, however, that thirsty protesters buy record numbers of Coca-Cola from street vendors.

Articles: CNN | ABC News | Photo from Haacked (via Boing Boing)

So, that's what they mean! Link (via Presurfer)

Ueba has these amazing pics of Venice, re-created with Lego bricks: Link (Thanks Yayo!)

From the website:

The Knife Ship became the protagonist of the performance held in Venice on the Campo dell'Arsenale, September 6, 7 and 8, 1985. With its corkscrew and blades folded upward, the Knife Ship echoed vertical structures such as the campanile of San Marco and the parapet of the Arsenale, while its color, red, could be associated with the city's ancient ceremonial ship, the Bucintoro. By coincidence, the knife, with its blades and corkscrew, could be equated with fish and snakes, the two biomorphic shapes used by Il Corso del Coltello co-author Frank Gehry in his architecture.

See more of Claes' giant artwork: http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/lsp.htm (Thanks Fennec!)

This one above is titled "Court of Appeals". See more of Will Bullas witty word-play paintings: Link

This latest Jesus sighting - an image in a Peruvian sand dune - is brought to you by Google Maps. (via The Register)

Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing picture of Open Cluster NGC290, located about 200,000 light-years away in a neighboring galaxy called the Small Cloud of Magellan.

Link (via Starspirit)