This is Maki, an elderly ring-tailed lemur who lives at the San Francisco Zoo. He was stolen from his enclosure last week. Fortunately, a sharp-eyed 5-year old boy named James Trinh spotted him as he left his preschool, which is about 5 miles from the zoo. The AP reports how the school director, Cynthia Huang, responded when James cried out "There's a lemur! There's a lemur!":

Huang was skeptical at first. “I thought, Are you sure it’s not a raccoon?” she said.

Maki scurried from the parking lot into the school’s playground and took refuge in a miniature play house, as the school called police who quickly alerted animal control and zoo officials. The children, parents and teachers watched as caretakers arrived and coaxed the lemur into a transport cage, Huang said.

Police have arrested a suspect in the case. Zoo officials have rewarded James with a lifetime membership at their facility.

-via Instapundit | Photo: San Francisco Zoo

It's 2020 and we don't have flying cars. But if you have a leaf blower and a mop bucket, then you have all you need for the shimmering utopia that futurists have promised us for generations. And it's all thanks to Brian Edward Kahrs, a custodian in Clearwater, Florida. The New York Post reports:

Kahrs, a Brooklyn native, called the mop-bucket mobile his “blue-collar limousine.”

“Nothing like taking a cruise along Clearwater Beach after a long night of mopping floors and scrubbing toilets,” the grandfather wrote this week on Facebook.

And, yes, he really is as ripped as he appears in the video.

-via Dave Barry

Josh Carte, an artist in the Hocking Hills of southeastern Ohio, began with a chainsaw. After experimenting with chainsaw art, he decided to try designs that required tools more precise than chainsaws. For eight years, he's carved sculptures cut from the woods of his homeland. Sometimes they're scary and sometimes they're funny, but they're always beautiful.

Bryant Hoban of O'Fallon, Missouri refers to his business model as "investment sandwiches." He buys fast food menu items right before they are dropped from a menu, freezes them, then sells them at huge markups in online auctions.

Pictured above are Hoban's three Potato Soft Tacos from Taco Bell, a culinary delight that lives on only in our memories since Taco Bell discontinued them in July. Hoban sold two of these tacos at $70 each when he couldn't find a buyer for the entire set. The River Front Times talked to the taco baron about his business:

"These babies are rare!" the ad reads. "Never been eaten!"

We reached out to the seller, Bryant Hoban of O'Fallon, Missouri, and learned that the entrepreneurial scheme is part of a larger frozen-fast-food business idea for which the Potato Soft Tacos are simply a trial run.

"I've had this idea of 'investment sandwiches' where, like, you'd buy a limited-offer sandwich in bulk, freeze it, and then sell it later for a profit," Hoban explains. "You know, like the McRib — McDonald's only offers it once a year, but the demand doesn't go away. So then when I heard Taco Bell was discontinuing the Potato Soft, I decided it'd be a good opportunity to test this idea out before McRib season."

-via Dave Barry | Photo: Facebook

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— Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz) October 15, 2020

The amazing inventor Simone Giertz has a brand new workshop in Los Angeles. One of her first projects in the new location was to build a dog selfie booth out of LEGO bricks. When her dog, Scraps, goes into the booth, she gets a treat for stomping on a pedal. The pedal activates a camera, taking a photo of Scraps.

-via Super Punch

HMS Parrsboro, a Bangor-class minesweeper from Woarld War II, plunges over the waves in this tempest in a teacup. This is one of many amazing ship miniatures made by Japanese Twitter user Black637.

The level of detail is truly extraordinary.

-via Super Punch

That's what Messy Nessy Chic says, and I'm inclined to agree.

(Note that the Possum Lady isn't the Queen of the Internet as a whole. That title belongs to our own Miss Cellania.)

For a decade, Georgette Spelvin has enlightened and entertained people around the world through the magic of YouTube. With her psychic pet squirrel, Pearl, and Mabel the opossum, Ms. Spelvin speaks about the joys of Disney Princesses and demonstrates massage techniques. She's the hero we need right now.

DFW Wonder Woman, a cosplayer in Dallas, Texas, specializes in mashups of her favorite superhero. She produces each costume to a matchless level of quality, as you can see in this mermaid version of the Princess of Themyscira photographed by Ginger Arlene.

Imgur user dooctorpond has "a job with a boss that screams at me all day."

That sort of experience grinds down your soul.

So it's a good thing that her husband draws doodles on their bathroom mirror to provide a spark of joy in a dark existence.

That's good husbanding right there.

Tomoko Sato, a food artist in Kyoto, Japan, carves images and designs into fruits and vegetables, thereby transforming them into works of art. They're so beautiful that it would be obscene to eat them. You can follow her work on Instagram or her own website.

TYWKIWDBI brings to our attention this image of unknown provenance circulating the internet. What dark energy on the farm led to the spawning of this magnificent pumpkin? I don't know but don't even think of cutting into it as a jack-o'-lantern in order to find out. Lord Cthulhu has blessed it with his form.

Singapore Airlines has been hit hard by the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, it announced plans to launch "flights to nowhere" that just take off, circle the airport, and then land.

Now, to put its grounded planes to good use, the airline is using the jetliners as pop-up restaurants. Since Singapore Airlines has an excellent reputation for in-flight food, this may draw customers. Fast Company reports:

Customers had the option of buying tickets in different classes, with a meal in a first class suite priced at $474 compared to an $39 economy class meal. Both meals will take place on planes at Singapore’s Changi Airport, which is the company’s hub. The airline says it will enforce social distancing, using only half of the 471 seats on the plane.

Image: Singapore Airlines

Potatoes have phosphoric acid. Insert a source of zinc and the two will react to produce a small amount of electrical current.

Very small. Will a potato run the video game Doom? No, but if you use about 700 potato pieces, YouTube user Equalo discovered, you can run Doom on a graphing calculator:

This was a long, difficult project that Equalo completed while working a full-time job. As a result, the potato pieces became moldy and stinky by the end of the six-day effort.

YouTube user Matthew Highton masterfully mined stock video archives and wove them into remarkably consistent recreations of TV show introductions. I'm especially impressed that there were appropriate demonic footage reels for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

In this playlist, you can also find Highton's videos for The A-Team, Friends, Duck Tales, ThunderCats, and more.

-via Geek Tyrant

There are parts of your body (or at least mine) that are not routinely displayed to the public. The roof of the mouth is an example. Indy Voet, a Belgian tattoo artist, has been inking tattoos in that remote location for five years. He tells Inked magazine that it's a tricky job that requires delicate handwork and a trusting client:

For this process, Voet uses a handpoking technique rather than a machine, explaining that the machine would be too harsh on this location and too difficult to get to. "I don't really use anything other than a needle and some dexterity, combined with the trust of my client."

Thankfully, it doesn't hurt too much to get tattooed on the roof of the mouth:

"Nine out of 10 people describe these tattoos as being almost painless or at least, very easy to handle. The other 10% mostly complain about jaw muscle aches, which seems logical."

-via Nag on the Lake