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A flamingo that lives in a zoo in São Paulo, Brazil lost one of his legs due to an infection. But now he's standing tall and proud on his new prosthetic one. The 7-inch leg is made of carbon fiber and silicone. The flamingo is already hobbling along on it well. He's taken to tucking it under his body and standing on his remaining natural leg. The International Business Times reports:

Veterinarians at the zoo say once the flamingo has mastered hobbling around on its new leg, it will be reintroduced to its group on the zoo grounds.

"[The flamingo] is slowly getting physically rehabilitated and the muscles in the legs getting stronger so it can join the group," zoo veterinarian Andre Costa, said.

-via The Soul Is Bone

Facehuggers from the Alien science fiction horror movie franchise are a symbol of love and affection. That is, after all, why they hug humans that they encounter. So it is appropriate that Timmy Hanno, a baker in Oak Lawn, Illinois, made this raspberry-filled fritter for his girlfriend, Brittany Ann Martin.

A gentleman is discreet. Whatever vices he may have are hidden from public view. For that, he needs the Gentleman’s Surprise Chair. Although I cannot be certain, I think that it was once owned by M.S. Rau Antiques of New Orleans. One compartment hides from public the owner’s use of playing cards:

Few animals are as good at headbanging as the totally tough parrot, and screeching comes as naturally to them as cracking open nuts and flapping their wings.

Therefore, parrots can be thought of as the most metal animals on earth, so metal that they were born with grinding guitar riffs in their hearts and feet that curl into devil horns with ease.

One parrot named Waldo, with a little help from humans Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer and Mark Sloan from The Index, is out to prove that parrots deserve more than crackers for their musical talent.

Waldo's the lead singer of the birdbrained grindcore band Hatebeak, who is about to release a new album called The Number Of The Beak after a six year hiatus.

Don't get your hopes up about seeing Hatebeak on tour anytime soon, because parrots are too shy to perform in front of an audience, and Hatebeak's head honcho hates ironic hipster hecklers!

-Via Dangerous Minds

If your idea of cooking is more pushing some buttons on the microwave oven, then with this new technology, you may well be on your way to become a gourmet chef.

Behold the next generation microwave, as developed by Freescale Semiconductor. This microwave uses solid-state radio frequency (RF) technology to heat meals and allows you to cook food at different intensities, prevent overcooking, and heat up multiple dishes at the same time. The microwave has a wide array of cooking techniques, including searing, browning, baking, and poaching. Plus, it looks boss!

"Consumers worldwide are strapped for time but still want nutrient-rich, high quality meals at home," said Paul Hart, senior vice president and general manager for Freescale’s RF business. "They will no longer need to choose between quality and convenience. Imagine not only having ready-to cook, gourmet meals delivered to your door, but achieving restaurant-quality results in mere minutes. This is an exciting new appliance concept based on a novel cooking paradigm."

That's a tall promise for a technology that's been around for almost 70 years (yes, the first microwave, built from radar technologies developed during World War II, was sold in 1946).

Via Mashable.

The Imperial insurance adjustor's not going to like this!

French artist Nicolas Amiard has created a set of composite photographs depicting what would happen if starships from the Star Wars universe crash landed on planet Earth.

As he imagined the Imperial Star Destroyer plopped down in Paris to the Millennium Falcon crash landed in the Hudson River, Amiard said to VICE's The Creators Project, "Star Wars is an imaginary universe and bringing elements from this universe in our real world seemed to be a very interesting contrast to work on."

We'll say that the Force (of Photoshopper) is strong with this one!

Psst, wanna million bucks? Just write the next pop hit! And you don't even have to worry about having some divine inspiration for writing the song because, as it turns out, there's a formula for writing catchy pop songs.

And what better form to write said formula than in an actual song?

Here's a pop song about pop songs, by Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench. And he should know what he's talking about - Josh wrote and produced Carly Rae Jepsen's 2011 earworm "Call Me Maybe."

Via Twisted Sifter.

Avenger Babies: Nursery Age Of Ultron by Aaron Morales

Tensions were running high in the Avengers after school superhero program ever since that metallic baby bot had joined the group. He called himself Ultwon, and they'd all laughed at his siwwy speech impediment when he'd first awived, which made him a wittle angwy. That day he vowed to have his revenge against their snotty little superhero group, and like any good supervillain-in-training he studied them to find out what they loved most. One day Cappie made a disparaging comment about Ultron's shiny head and that set him off, putting his plan in motion to destroy all the toys in the nursery...

Add some super powered silliness to your geeky wardrobe with this Avenger Babies Nursery Age Of Ultron t-shirt by Aaron Morales, and help turn those boring fashion frowns upside down!

Visit Aaron Morales's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more marvel-ous designs:

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For more than 500 years, the Lithuanian village of Ramygala has been renowned for its goats. They're the prettiest in the land! That's why, every year, the villagers hold a beauty pageant for its caprine maidens, who dress in their finest for the occasion. You can see photos of the contestants at The Daily Telegraph (auto-start video).

Finn Man by Donovan Alex

Finn had begun his adventuring career as a young boy full of bacon pancakes and bun spanking spirit, but that all changed when he discovered the sword of Castle Graygrab. The sword was full of all kinds of citric magic, and made his face pucker every time he held it, but when he read the inscription on the blade things got mighty interesting. With a cry of "I have the sour!" Finn was transformed from a noodle limbed boy into a super buff warrior dude, and Jake turned in to a totally fierce Battle-Jake, and those best buds became totally grown up bros...who still couldn't get enough bacon pancakes!

It's time to add some animated adventure to your geeky wardrobe with this Finn Man t-shirt by Donovan Alex, it's the mightiest mashup tee in the land!

Visit Donovan Alex's Facebook fan page, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more Ooo inspiring designs:

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How do you want to start the day? The best answer is "later." But if you must wake, then there's probably no better sound to stir you than that of a young child giggling. That's why the design firm Ideo developed the Lolzzz clock. When it's time to wake up, the clock physically rocks back and forth. The recorded laughter of Quinn, a 5-year old girl, plays. To make her laugh louder, tickle the clock's belly button.

Lolzzz is one of three inventions in the monYay! collection of time-management devices that will help you enjoy rather than dread life on a fixed schedule. The others are a bubble-blower calendar alert system and a Bluetooth-enabled tin can.

-via NotCot

Sploosh! by Megan Lara

Archer would be like any other secret agent without the danger zone, Lana wouldn't last a minute without her man hands, and Pam wouldn't be quite so sassy without the sploosh. Nobody's really sure what Pam's job is in the office anymore, they just let her hang around hoping she stays out of trouble with a little adult supervision. But if you're looking for someone to diss the Duchess, someone who spends her afternoons getting drunk in case she has to do some actual HR work, someone who would get a tattoo of herself riding a dolphin on her inner thigh, then Pam the sploosh queen's got ya covered!

Celebrate the animated adventures of Archer's wild card with this Sploosh! t-shirt by Megan Lara, it's one stylish way to put a smile on the faces of your fellow fans!

Visit Megan Lara's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:

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Well, perhaps not the next immediate installment of the series. Jurassic Park is not so much a series with a fixed beginning and eventual ending, but a cycle. And in the first of the Human Park components, a reanimated Chris Pratt will play a dinosaur-eating primitive.

-via Tastefully Offensive

Sign warning South African beachgoers about the presence of sharks | Image: ChrisDHDR 

Two back-to-back shark attacks made the news recently in North Carolina when a twelve year old and a sixteen year old lost their arms in incidents approximately an hour apart. A ten year old was also attacked recently off of Daytona Beach. Experts say such occurrences are common at this time of year in the Carolinas and in Florida, when the amount of bait and game fish is peaking. Luckily in those cases, no one was killed. 

Of course, not all shark attacks are particularly explainable or leave the victim alive. After all, nature is wild and unpredictable. One dramatic and terrifying fatal shark attack took place in South Africa in 2010. A man named Lloyd Skinner was standing in waist-deep water off of Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town when what one onlooker described as a "huge... like dinosaur huge" shark swam up from behind him and snatched him up in his jaws before swallowing him whole. One witness who called the shark "longer than a minibus" said, 

"It was this giant shadow heading to something colorful. Then it sort of came out the water and took this colorful lump and went off with it. You could see its whole jaw wrap around the thing which turned out to be a person."

Read more about this incident and other instances of fatal shark attacks here. 

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Ice cream is serious business my friends, as you well know. As such, verification may be needed as to whether a product labeled in a certain way is accurate as stated. In this case, those buying cookie dough ice cream are not in the mood for just a small, isolated chunk of it interspersed here and there in a vast expanse of vanilla. No, we want major cookie dough blobs, and lots of them. In this article, BuzzFeed evaluated four brands of cookie dough ice cream to get the skinny (or, rather, the fat) on this issue. With everything going on in the world, it's nice to know someone has their priorities straight.