Bodmin the rabbit (named after the Beast of Bodmin, a legendary half-rat/half-bunny predator that terrorizes England). At time of the picture, this rabbit weighs at 88lbs. More picture of Bodmin |
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This Lockheed Lounge by MINIMA comes with 1,800 rivets. Looks awesome, but probably isn't very comfy. You can order one for just $625. Link |
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a famous artist in the 16th century who drew amazing paintings of veggies, fruits, and flowers resembling people. Link |
| You can make this little dragon, whose face seems to look at you directly and follow you as you walk across the room. |
| OK, so everyone knows how big 1 penny is. It's also easy to visualize 16 stacked pennies. How about $10 worth of pennies (1,000 pennies)? 50,000 pennies? 1 million pennies? 10 million pennies? How much pennies does it take to fill up the Sears towers? This website explains it all: the MegaPenny Project |
| This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strangely in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball which became stuck in its mouth!! See the pictures here: |
| Hidden Mickeys started out as an inside joke by Walt Disney workers - they subtly "hide" Mickey Mouse's signature ear silhouettes in plain sight. Where? everywhere! Hidden Mickeys have been found on park rides, hotel decors, and even in Disney movies! See if you can find some of your own. Link |
| Terry Duty enjoys bending steel bars. He's worked out the proper techniques of bending steel (yes, apparently there are proper techniques) that he called Slim the Hammer Man style and so forth. http://home.insight.rr.com/strongman/bending.html |
A modern monowheel built by Kerry McLean. For a nice collection of monowheel pictures, see: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm |
| The RIOT Wheel is a 1,100 lb motorized single-wheel vehicle first built for the Burning Man festival (where else?) Link |
Yes, it's a real hamlet in Austria and it's pronounced "fooking". The hamlet is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century - his name is Focko. Link If you can't go to Austria, you can go to this village instead. It's in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Link If you like those two, chances are you'd like this List of Interesting or Unusual Place Names found in Wikipedia. My favorites are: Assawoman, Virginia and Buttahatchee River, Alabama. |
| The coin on the right is a quarter "shrunk" by a machine appropriately called a Quarter Shrinker. How does it work? By rapidly discharging a high amount of electricity to generate a very powerful and rapidly changing electromagnetic field, which then actually reforms the metal of the coin. Very cool. Link |
| Bee Dogs is the "premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes." Link |
Jetped is what happens when you put a jet engine (with an afterburner, of course) on a goped, add a large dose of insanity and substract all common sense. Jetped can reach speed of 70+ mph. http://www.jetped-boarders.co.uk/ |
A handmade PC, keyboard, and monitor crafted by a Russian craftsman. Link (via Boing Boing) |
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