This website asks "What if Fox News had been there for other key moments in World History?" This is what they imagined: Link

Takind advantage of an obscure Los Angeles city law that makes any fruit that overhangs on sidewalks public property, CalArts professors Dave Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young created a mapping project to promote access to various fruits!

The result? Fallenfruit.org

What a wonderful start to a new life together! (Thanks Kandra!)

Erwin Olaf's 2002 photograph series titled "Royal Blood", featured in the Bilbao Art Centre, is definitely intriguing (a little controvery never hurts anyone!). This one above is called "Di" - notice the car emblem embedded in the arm. Link

Judith Schaechter's Parables in Glass is no mere mortal's stained glass. She's elevated this artform into a new level. Link (via Transbuddha)

The Church of Scientology built a huge vault into a a mountainside in New Mexico, marked by huge aerial signpost of their symbol.

According to the Washington Post:

"Buried deep in these New Mexico hills in steel-lined tunnels, said to be able to survive a nuclear blast, is what Scientology considers the future of mankind," ABC's Tom Jarriel said in his report. "Seen here for the first time, thousands of metal records, stored in heat-resistant titanium boxes and playable on a solar-powered turntable, all containing the beliefs of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard."

Link (via BoingBoing)

Doctors at the Lyon and Amiens hospital in France had performed the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, who had suffered extensive surgery in a dog attack.

Link to CNN Article.

Aristarkh Chernyshev created the Teleblaster 1.0, a television that allows you to watch TV programs "both in the usual mode and in a special video processing mode" that generates a weird video-effects synchronously with sound. Link

Invented in 1930s, Aerogel is the world's lightest solid material. It is 99.8% air and is 1000-less dense than glass. An ounce of this material can cover an area of 10 football fields!

That's not its only amazing property: it has 39 times the insulation factor of fiberglass.

Link to Berkeley National Laboratory's Aerogel Website

Artist Boris Bally said:

"Most aboriginal cultures, including this country's own native Americans, have adorned themselves with jewelry made of various animal parts such as feathers, fur, leather, claws, bones, or teeth. These served as talismanic charms and, in the form of the archetypal "bear-claw necklace," gave a hunter/warrior the spirit and strength of the animal whose disabled "weapons" he was wearing. Such a necklace was perceived as a symbol of bravery, strength and respect"

He made his "urban mojo" from 100 hand-gun triggers! Link (via Jaf Project)

Canadian artist Yee took 1 year to design and create the world's most complex paper model: a working (all parts move properly) V8 engine made from 5756 pieces of paper! Link (via BoingBoing)