I really don't know what to say about Geoffrey's work of art - judge for yourself. Link (via Gordon Keith Blog)

For more naughty cereal boxes, see: http://www.mainstreetsonoma.com/cereals.html (via WFMU Beware of the Blog)

Andy of Bike Furniture Design has been creating playful furniture from bicycle rims, handlebars, frames, and wheels since 1990. http://www.bikefurniture.com/index.html (via Militant Platypus)

This crazy musical instrument was designed in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar.

The piano was designed to raise the spirits of an Italian prince who was too stressed out. The musician would select cats whose voices were at different pitches then arrange them in the pens accordingly. The piano delivered sharp pokes into the tails of the cats.

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In Désirée's photo series titled "Camouflage", a suit is painted in such a way that the wearer seems to "disappear" into the background. Link (via Militant Platypus)

UrlyArt makes a photo mosaic using screenshots of websites. This particular one is of Dick Cheney in hunting garb from hundreds of websites covering the news of his shooting incident. Link (via Jaf Project)

Giraffe Manor was built in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, just a few miles outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

It is now a lodging, a very unique lodging:

Exclusive, spacious and elegant, it is the only place in the world that you can feed giraffe from your second floor bedroom window, over the lunch table, and at the front door. Guests can feed and photograph the giraffe and the Warthogs at the Manor, and also wander through the adjoining primeval forest to view the bushbuck, dik dik, and more than 180 species of birds.

I have no idea what bushbuck and dik dik are...

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This stunning color photograph is part of an archive of vintage Middle East photographs at the University of Chicago Library. This photo was labelled "2129 P.Z. Kairo. Bordo du Nil et Dahabieh" taken ca. 1900. Link (via Linkfilter)

WeirdMeat.com is a document of one man's attempt to eat strange food around the world. I mean, really strange food...

Like this one entry called "Vertical Pork Bone" from a Chinese (what else) restaurant in Shanghai:

Yes, it's a large pig bone, served vertical, with a plastic bendy straw in the center, so you can suck out the marrow. I suppose there's nothing weird about a pork bone, to most of us, but to serve it like this, with the bendy straw, would turn some weak stomachs out there. It's the presentation, not the content, that makes it weird.

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Sir William Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor India, was the first to use fingerprints and palmprints on contracts with native Indian " ... to frighten [him] out of all thought of repudiating his singature."

Herschel made a habit of requiring palm prints--and later, simply the prints of the right Index and Middle fingers--on every contract made with the locals. Personal contact with the document, they believed, made the contract more binding than if they simply signed it. Thus, the first wide-scale, modern-day use of fingerprints was predicated, not upon scientific evidence, but upon superstitious beliefs.

Checkout more on the History of Fingerprints: Link (via Scribal Terror)