Anatoly Konenko, a Russian artist who specializes in miniatures, holds a Guinness World Record for having built the smallest aquarium in the world. It's 30 mm wide and holds 10 ml:

The water has to be applied using a syringe so as not to disturb the landscape the Siberia-artist lovingly created.

Konenko, who calls his art 'micro-miniatures', even made a minuscule fishing net which he used to place the fish, baby Danios.

The adults are usually a favourite with more normal sized tanks but the tiny fish look at home in Konenko's construction for which he has since added a specially built air pump.

You can view several large photos and a video at the link.

Link via Make | Artist's Website

Jonathan W. Stokes observed:

One can’t help but notice that algebraic chess notation maps almost perfectly to scientific pitch notation…

So he devised a means of expressing chess moves musically and then converted several famous chess games into piano compositions. Here, for example, is a 1858 game in which Paul Morphy defeated Duke Karl of Brunswick and Count Isouard.

Link via Marginal Revolution | Photo by Flickr user Muffet used under Creative Commons license

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This plane is, allegedly, a 1:5 scale model of the B-29 Dina Might. It weighs 463 pounds, has a 30 foot wingspan, and is powered by four 160cc engines.

via MArooned | Photo of the Historical Dina Might

Previously: Model B-50 Bomber

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So two old men in the middle of a road start arguing in what I think is French. It's fairly safe until one escalates the conflict by activating a lightsaber. The scene doesn't end well.

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Of course you would! After all, it makes for good cheese. So you're in luck: there's a shop in London that sells ice cream made from milk donated by local mothers.

The dessert, called Baby Gaga, is churned with donations from 15 women who responded to an advertisement on an online mothers' forum.

One of the women, Victoria Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was more new mothers would be encouraged to breastfeed.

Each serving of Baby Gaga at Icecreamists costs £14.

Mrs Hiley's donation was expressed on site and pasteurised before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.

Icecreamists founder Matt O'Connor placed an advert appealing for breast milk donations and believes his new recipe will be a success.[...]

"If it's good enough for our children, it's good enough for the rest of us," he said.

Video at the link.

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Sometimes, the best solutions lie in older technologies. Jalopnik has a video by Joel Appleman of a tractor trailer stuck in a snow drift in central Pennsylvania. A friendly Amish man hauled the truck out with his team of horses.

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Jimmy the cat has polydactyly -- extra fingers on his paws. His hoomins have trained him to give a thumbs-up gesture when asked.

Video Link via Geekologie | Previously: Cardi-Cat has 26 Toes!

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At this point, there's nothing very special about taking a picture of yourself every day for a year as you grow a beard. But about a minute into the video, Cory Fauver of Carleton College starts getting really creative. He moves through hallways, spins around, and shows stop-motion animated movements that took weeks to create.

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Two companies called Pukas and Tecnalia built a surfboard with a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a GPS tracking device, a compass, and pressure sensors that can measure the stresses placed upon the board. All of the data that these instruments collect is wirelessly transmitted to a computer for analysis. The technicians have been able to understand the strains and dynamics of surfing greater than ever before.

Link via Born Rich | Photo: Pukas

March will soon be upon us. It is the traditional time for artists to compose images of the Marvel Comics villain MODOK (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing). I'm especially taken with Kasra Ghanbari's depiction of the character on the cover of a romance novel.

Link via Nerdcore | Previously: March MODOK Madness

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There's something very soothing about this presentation. It's a time-lapse video of people pouring paint over a rectangular solid while Philip Glass' String Quartet No. 3 plays in the background. The art is by Holton Rower and the video is directed by Dave Kaufman.

via The Presurfer | Rower's Website

IBM's Watson computer beat two human opponents on Jeopardy. Would this strategy have worked?

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Relax, relax! There's no actual Predator musical in the making. This is just a parody by Jon and Al Kaplan, who have made several fake Schwarzenegger musicals, from Conan the Barbarian to Total Recall. This one, the last in the series, is a far superior production compared to the early musicals. Warning: foul language.

via io9 | Producers' Website

It is a principle of modern architecture that everything can be improved upon with a slide, from subways or airports. So, quite sensibly, Kazuki Nakamura and Kenichi Izuhara designed a house that has slides connecting each level.

Link | Architects' Website

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The ad agency Definition 6 developed a clever campaign for Coca-Cola. It created a truck designed to resemble a vending machine. There's a giant button on the back marked "Push". They drove it around Rio de Janeiro. When people pushed the button, all sorts of prizes popped out -- bottles of Coke, soccer balls, beach toys, and even a surfboard.

via Super Punch | Agency Website