The Falling Bookends series by the Art Ori design studio shows books falling on tiny people. It's perfect for people who are always overwhelmed with reading material.

Studio Website -via T.

Ilian, a professional food and drink photographer in Manchester, UK captured the images of carefully carved fruits and vegetables. This one makes eggplant look almost palatable.

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It looks like an ice resurfacer, but this is actually Daniel Bourgeois's heavily modified 1984 Chevrolet truck. This street legal vehicle can ferry you and eleven of your friends in style in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. Think: prom date.

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This baby sloth has mange, so his caregivers shave his body, butter it with a mixture of sulfur and lard, then swaddle him in strips of cloth. He's one of 160 sloths at a facility in Costa Rica dedicated to creating a black hole of cuteness.

-via Geekosystem | Sanctuary Website

Totally awesome or totally horrifying? The Swarm, a new roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Chertsey, UK is tearing up crash test dummies:

The self-described "flight through apocalyptic devastation on Europe's tallest winged rollercoaster" propels up to 28 riders at a time with their arms and legs dangling freely at 62 miles per hour and includes trips through an inverted 127-foot drop and several close encounters with walled structures that are designed to make passengers feel like they are about to crash.

Even former fighter pilots find the coaster a bit much:

The ride's designers ran some test runs with crash test dummies, leaving many shocked when the dummies returned from the experience missing arms and legs. A team of former British fighter pilots were then brought in as the coaster's preparation neared completion. Mark Cutmore, team leader of the Blades, a stunt pilot organization, told the Metro: "I am a self-confessed adrenaline junkie, but even as a pilot used to G-force there were some gut-wrenching moments, and I have to admit the near miss element is eye-watering -- you really do feel as if you are going to crash into the structures."

Link -via The Agitator | Official Website | Photo: Rod Kirkpatrick

It's been a month since Winston Kemp was struck by lightning, but the pattern of the electrical discharge is still visible on his skin. This is a Lichtenberg figure -- the branching pattern made by electricity. Kemp didn't see a doctor at the time, but he feels fine, although he thinks that his skin will keep this awesome scar.

Link -via io9

Beth at Hungry Happenings made these ingenious snacks with canned crescent roll dough. She wrapped the dough around horn molds and painted them with orange food coloring. After she baked them, she removed the molds, stuffed the rolls with egg and ham salad, and then topped them with springs of dill. From a distance, they really do look like carrots.

Link -via Tasteologie

These groovy mirror balls were made by a Rotterdam-based art collective named Rotganzen. After a long night of spinning around at the disco, here they are relaxing on the floor.

Link (Google Translate) -via Walyou | Artists' Website

"You are like mouse-dropping in the pepper." I couldn't agree more. The Sixteenth Century German theologian Martin Luther has a lot to say to you, it's all bad, and you deserve it. Click on the link to begin the tirade from Luther's collected works.

Link -via @BrainPicker | Image via CTSWyneke

Swintec's 2600CC typewriter is a completely modern tool with impressive features such as an 80,000-word dictionary and correction memory.

Here's your puzzle for today: why is it transparent? Make a guess, then click on the link to read the answer.

Link -via American Digest

I'm scared of my lunch. Please hold me. I don't know who made this bento box. And I don't want to find out.

Link (Google Translate) -via Kotaku

UPDATE 3/3/12: Nerdcore laughs at my ignorance and informs us that this bento box was inspired by The Evil Dead.

Thing (full name: Thing Thing Thing) was the disembodied hand on The Addams Family. The artist Doktor A. made this steampunk version for an upcoming Addams Family-themed show at the Wootini Gallery in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Link -via Walyou | Gallery Website

Previously: 14 Facts You Might Not Know about The Addams Family

Raul Lemesoff converted a 1979 Ford Falcon into an open air bookmobile. He drives it around Buenos Aires, offering books to anyone who wants them. The Weapon of Mass Instruction, as Lemesoff calls it, promotes "peace through literature." Lemesoff has already driven it to remote regions of Argentina and hopes to expand the project into other nations.

Video Link -via reddit | Photo by the artist

The street artist ROA ! made this enormous mural on a building in Atlanta, Georgia. It was his contribution to the Living Walls Conference, a street art symposium.

Link -via My Modern Met | Conference Website

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He's the best agent they had. They called him out of retirement for one last mission. It's the last mistake they'll ever make. Don't ask "Where's Waldo?"

And pray that he never finds you.

-via Fashionably Geek