See more cool perspective-painting of rooms here: Link

Megan knitted this awesome pink wig for Halloween. Link (Thanks Jen!)

Not your taste? How about a knitted womb, headphone cover, and ... a chain scarf! (See more at Knitty's awesome collection: Link)

I guess this guy is really into My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)!

What happens when an eBayer decided to prank a scam artist? Hilarity, is what: Link

West Virginia has partnered with Konami to bring Dance Dance Revolution to all of its 765 public schools to fight childhood obesity!

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Man skipped doghouse after domestic dispute, opted instead for treehouse.

Kapila Pradhan, 45, a resident of Nagajhara village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, left home after an apparent tiff with his wife.

"My son and daughter-in-law quarrelled constantly after their son was born and their relationship soured day by day," says his mother Sishula. "One morning I found my son had left the house while everybody was still asleep."

A month later, villagers found him deep in the forest living in a tree.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000 year old skeleton of a man holding a dagger, posed in what seems to be an attack position.

He explained that the "unusual pose" might have been designed "to stress his original repute as a warrior or a hunter of some note."

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The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport is a type of animal with a steel skeleton and a polyester skin. It looks as if there is a thick layer of sand coating the animal. It weighes 2. tons, but can be set into motion by one person. It stands 4.70 meters tall. Because of its height it catches enough wind to start moving.

Mike Wood's remote-controlled submarine was attacked by a giant Pacific octopus during a research dive.

"I go full reverse and blast him with all these seabed particles," said Wood, describing the attack shown in the video. "Finally, he lets go and disappears off into the gloom.

"It was desperation. It's a $200,000 machine, and it's not insured," said Wood, who runs SubOceanic Sciences Canada in Duncan, B.C.

http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/01/27/octopus060127.html (via Collision Detection)

Marla Olmstead is an up and coming young artist in New York - she paints vibrant, colorful, abstract art.

She has already sold $50,000 worth of paintings. And oh yeah, she's four years old.

Link (via Militantplatypus)

Matt takes "Photographs of the bizarre, the unusual, the sublime, and the beautiful found in my travels through the deserts of California and Nevada." This particular one is captioned:

Along Angeles Crest Highway in Los Angeles County’s San Gabriel Mountains, I came across this man playing drums. He set himself up at the edge of the road, overlooking a vast canyon through which his drums echoed, and beat along to the music playing through his headphones. As I was making the photograph, an emergency truck sped by, sirens blaring — cacophony shatters the mountains’ silence.

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See more of Bill's illustrations here: Link (via Chapel Perilous)