Apparently, the selection of sushi usb drives has expanded since we first saw them in 2004!

Link | Also: Fosfor Gadget's Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever (Thanks David R!)

Thailand has been crowning Miss Jumbo Queen since 1997! Kudos and congrats to these beautiful, full-bodied women. Link

Take a look at the world's wackiest wedding dress: Link (via Grow-a-Brain)

Duck Car as seen in Burning Man '02. For more Burning Man photos, see: http://www.spiralhighway.com/pics.html

Lyonshel Studio makes fantastic soft foam, pre-painted, flexible masks that will allow you to "unleash the animal within" (their words, not mine!)

http://www.lyonshel.com/ | Gallery (via Superhelga)

"Was He a Man or a Monster?" is an exhibition by the New York State Historical Association and the Cooperstown Graduate Program, about the merchandising and sensationalizing of murder and violence in the nineteenth century.

The plate for the image above reads:

Confessions and execution of the pirates Gibbs & Wansley: on Ellis' Iland in the harbour of New-York on 22d April 1831, under the direction of Thos. Morris, Esq. U. States Marshal. An interesting account of their lives will be found within, but the individual crime which brought them to the gallows was the murder of the captain and mate of the brig Vineyard at sea bound from New Orleans to New-York

Link to Images | to Exhibition (via BibliOdyssey)

From the website:

"In 1869 the craftsman Rousseau of Marseilles built this monocycle, which perches the cyclist on the inside of a 2 1/2 yards-high wheel. As there is no steering mechanism, it makes uncommon demands on the rider's sense of balance." (from Galbiati & Ciravegna)

Note that this design actually has 2 wheels: it's a wheel inside a wheel monowheel! http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm#1

William Miller, the professor of horticulture and the director of Flower Bulb Research Program (apparently there is such a thing) and Erin Finan at Cornell University discovered that liquor will stunt the growth of stems and leaf of paperwhite narcissi, but not their flowers.

Last year, Miller received a call from The New York Times about a reader who had written to the garden editor claiming that gin had prevented some paperwhite narcissi from growing too tall and floppy and asked if it was because of some "essential oil" in the gin.

Intrigued that dilute alcohol might act as a growth retardant, Miller and former Cornell student Erin Finan '05 conducted experiments with ethanol (1, 5, 10 and 25 percent) and "Ziva" paperwhite narcissi (Narcissus tazetta), and later with about a dozen kinds of alcohol, including dry gin, unflavored vodka, whiskey, white rum, gold tequila, mint schnapps, red and white wine and pale lager beer, on paperwhites.

Link (via Nutmeg)

Astronomers using the UK MERLIN radio telescopes discovered a giant cloud - 300 billion miles across - composed of alcohol!

Dr Harvey-Smith, principal investigator for the study, said: “Although it is exciting to discover a cloud of alcohol almost 300 billion miles across, unfortunately methanol, unlike its chemical cousin ethanol, is not suitable for human consumption!”

http://www.labnews.co.uk/new_labnews/article.php?artid=1017&categoryid=2&scheme=2 (via Jasonspage)

The Audobon Society has released a list of 10 Most Endangered Birds in America:

At number 1 sits the Ivory-billed Woodpecker:

Once this species made most of the southeastern United States its home, but it was considered extinct for decades until a single bird was spotted in Arkansas in 2004.

That's one lonely bird!

Check out the entire list: Link (via LoperCo. Post)

Apparently, if you live in Japan, you can now pre-order 10 stamp sheet of ¥80 stamps featuring Super Mario Bros.!

Link (via Digg)

Why stop at helmet? Be safe and wear a body armor while riding! (Found at DeluxeBlog)

(Found at Buddhalover)

Raghav Mahato created his own pirate FM radio station from used and recycled items for just $1, probably the cheapest transmission equipment in the world.

"It took a long time to come up with the idea and make the kit which could transmit my programmes at a fixed radio frequency. The kit cost me 50 rupees (just over $1)," says Raghav.

The transmission kit is fitted on to an antenna attached to a bamboo pole on a neighbouring three-storey hospital.

A long wire connects the contraption to a creaky, old homemade stereo cassette player in Raghav's radio shack. Three other rusty, locally made battery-powered tape recorders are connected to it with colourful wires and a cordless microphone.

His village FM station (Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1) was heard by thousands of villagers. The Indian government, however, was not amused and shut his station down.

Check out the story here: BBC Article 1 | Article 2 (via WFMU's Beware of the Blog)