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Hypnotic Tattoo



It's a simple design, but there's something mesmerizing about this tattoo by Xed Lehead. The shading is really nice work. Link -via F-Yeah Tattoos | Photo: Needles and Sins

Bird Shall Not Be Moved


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An active windshield wiper may not seem like a good place to perch, but this bird isn't choosy. That, or he's not going to let the humans push him off. -via Blame It on the Voices

Millennium Falcon School



You went to school at that place? You're braver than I thought. redditor MrDrProfFrPatrick noticed that his school, Parkland High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is shaped like the Millennium Falcon. Link | Google Maps Link

Study Compares the Intelligence of Users of Different Web Browsers



A psychometric consulting firm named AptiQuant asked 100,000 people to take an online IQ test, and then correlated scores with the web browsers used to take them. The blue bars represent test results from 2006 and the red bars test results from 2011. The vertical axis represents IQ points. Link -via Geekologie

UPDATE: The story was a hoax. Thanks to commenter che.

Castle Models Made from Human Hair



Agustina Woodgate, an artist from Argentina, works extensively with human hair. For her "I Wanted to Be a Princess" project, she crafted 3,000 bricks out of hair and then assembled them into two medieval-looking castles.

Link -via Geekosystem | Artist's Website | Photo: Inhabitat

The Tree of Life




Three members of the art studio Degree came up with this clever poster design. It looks like just a tree ring print until you look closely. The artists made it to promote the cause of biodiversty. Link -via Colossal

Easy Halloweens



That's about right, but low-grade costuming and special effects are acceptable so as long as there's a good story. If the story is poor, no special effects budget can compensate for it.

Cats That Talk is a webcomic with many Doctor Who references. So if you're a Whoivan, you should check it out. http://catsthattalk.tumblr.com/post/7893337743/madmanwithoutabox-thanks-so-verity-much-verity -via reddit

A Dire Warning about the Dangers of Creative Thinking


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The art collective This Is It made this video entitled "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared." It starts out like a pleasant children's puppet video about how all of us can think creatively and use our imaginations. Then everything goes delightfully, horribly wrong.

It's rather creative, actually.

Studio Website -via Flavorwire

A Real Society of Super Sleuths Who Solve Unsolved Crimes

In September 1990, retired detectives and other criminal investigation professionals came together to have lunch and talk about unsolved crimes. Now the Vidocq Society, comprised of some of the best investigators in the world, meets once a month to take on the hardest, coldest cases in the US:

Vidocq Society meetings – billed on its website as 'Cuisine and Crime-Solving' – now take place in Philadelphia on the third Thursday of every month; members gather beneath the electric chandeliers of the wood-panelled Downtown Club to have lunch and, afterwards, to help find a solution to a cold-case homicide. With 82 full, and more than 100 associate, members – a mix of men and women who must be invited to join by a committee – the society is a voluntary brains trust of retired and working criminologists.

Over the years membership has been drawn from the entire spectrum of judicial and crime-fighting institutions: from the local district attorney's office to Interpol; from Philadelphia's medical examiner to renowned FBI profilers. The society boasts members from 17 US states and 11 other countries around the world.


The society only takes murder cases that have been unsolved for at least two years and in which the victim was not a known criminal. Their work has led the exoneration of wrongfully convicted prisoners and the conviction of murders who thought that they had gotten away cleanly. Link -via Super Punch | Official Website | Photo: Vidocq Society

Meowtron, Defender of the Universe



From days of long ago -- from uncharted regions of the universe -- comes a legend: the legend of Meowtron, defender of the universe. A mighty catbot, loved by good, feared by evil.

With this print, Mark James Yamamoto tells the Voltron story (the five lions version) as it was always meant to be told. http://rrgallery.storenvy.com/products/104060-meowtron-kube-print -via Uniblog

The Most Awkward 404 Error Page in the World



Steve Lambert, an artist, set out to create the most awkward 404 error page. That's what's generated when a server cannot find a requested webpage. He's definitely accomplished that goal. At the link, you can view a long video in which Lambert greets the viewer like a house guest who hasn't figured out that the party is long since over. http://visitsteve.com/404.html -via The Presurfer

Previously: Brilliant 404 Pages

Doctor Who Flip-Page Embroidery




Craftster member megstar made an embroidery hoop that flips to reveal a second page. The pages can be held in place with snaps.

Her work is a reference to the Doctor Who episode "Blink". Whovians have told me to watch that one episode if I want to get a sense of the value of the series. Link -via Craft

Colonoscopy Video with a Live Worm


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Hi little fella! What a happy little worm. Do you think that he wants to come out and play? -via Boing Boing

Previously: Guess What This Doctor Found During a Colonoscopy!

Woman Takes Bar Exam While in Labor, Delivers Baby Right After

The bar exam was inconveniently scheduled, but a Northwestern Law alumna sucked it up to ensure that she was admitted to the Illinois bar. She was in active labor during the exam and gave birth two hours after completing it:

Before the start of the afternoon session on day two (Wednesday) of the Illinois bar exam, the very pregnant MBE mentioned to the proctors the possibility that she might give birth during the test. She asked if she could leave early in the event that she went into labor; they agreed.

So Mother Bar Exam sat down for the afternoon session of the Multistate Bar Exam (“MBE”). Not long after, she started going into labor — not a little discomfort, but full-on labor.[...]

Upon completing the exam, Mother Bar Exam notified the proctors that she was done and needed to leave, seeing as she was, you know, in the middle of giving birth and all. Normally candidates are not allowed to leave the room early, but in this case the proctors accommodated her (especially since she had mentioned the issue to them beforehand).

One proctor was even nice enough to carry MBE’s bag as she walked over to Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern — conveniently located across the street from the testing site. Shortly before 6 p.m., Mother Bar Exam gave birth to a healthy baby boy, via Caesarean section.


Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user nagobe used under Creative Commons license

The Batman Formula



redditor i_luv_ur_mom says "My math teacher is REALLY cool." Just as the Fibonacci sequence occurs in nature, so does math in the form of the Batman Equation occur in comics. Wait, maybe that's not the best analogy. Still: mathematical proof that Batman is cool. Link -via Blame It on the Voices

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