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The words “Last picture taken” before his or her death conjure up many emotions, whether in front of the camera or behind it. This list consists of 10 last time stamps in history taken of and by some fascinating individuals.
This is the last known picture of Elvis Presley, taken the night before he died in 1977. See nine more at The List Universe. Link -Thanks, G.D. Rawlinson!
The Kuro Hitsuji restaurant chain in Japan features Genghis Khan Cuisine, which is mutton cooked on a dome-shaped stove. What's really interesting is their English translation on the menus, which attempts to be American hip. See the rest of it at Urlesque. Link -Thanks, Jessica Amason!
This picture would make a great fishing story, but the truth is that this enormous Chinook salmon was found dead in Battle Creek, California.
Biologist Doug Killam made the find while conducting a survey of spawned-out fall-run salmon on lower Battle Creek near the Northern California town of Red Bluff. (Salmon die after they spawn.)
"I have counted tens of thousands of salmon during my career, and this is the biggest I have ever seen," Killam said. "When alive, it could have weighed more than the largest Chinook officially recorded in California, an 88-pound fish caught in the Sacramento River."
Most of the salmon found in these surveys weigh 20 to 30 pounds.
Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!
(image credit: California Department of Fish and Game)
The Oddee crew took photographer Robert Dam to La Paz, Bolivia to shop in a neighborhood where talismans and odd ingredients are sold to those practicing the supernatural arts. These dried llama fetuses are supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. Some people put them underneath their homes to bring good fortune. Link -Thanks, Luke!
Better watch your back if your cat is showing any of these 9 signs. If you're still not sure, there's a handy quiz included. http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php -Thanks, Matthew Inman!
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This little French girl is so adorable!
A breathtaking story by Capucine. Starring baby monkeys lost in frightening trees, a witch, crocodiles, a tiger, a "popotamus" and a lion, and even a "tremendously very bad mammoth". There are also magic powers and an orange ring, but sometimes, "something goes amiss".
Bring your popcorn and enjoy the show.
-via Boing Boing
Fiction meets reality in Google Street View.
Shown is the classic "tie sheets together and climb out a window" scene. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ioOW-qnhUDZ7xLLnIGnFC8PIc8HwD94DJ4DO7 to story. Link to website. -Thanks, Doan!
On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...
Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. This first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View made its debut on the web in November of 2008.
Shown is the classic "tie sheets together and climb out a window" scene. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ioOW-qnhUDZ7xLLnIGnFC8PIc8HwD94DJ4DO7 to story. Link to website. -Thanks, Doan!
This 200-year-old vampire killing kit was recently sold at an auction in Natchez, Missisippi. The winning bid? $14,850! Link -Thanks, Commander Flatus!
It seems logical that in areas where people are suffering from the flu that more search terms about the flu would roll into Google Search. So Google Trends has taken data from search inquiries related to the flu and made a map.
Of course, not every person who searches for "flu" is actually sick, but a pattern emerges when all the flu-related search queries from each state and region are added together. We compared our query counts with data from a surveillance system managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and discovered that some search queries tend to be popular exactly when flu season is happening. By counting how often we see these search queries, we can estimate how much flu is circulating in various regions of the United States.
At the site you can mouseover a state and see how active flu searches are. Kentucky is labeled as moderate, so I'd better get my flu shot! Link -Thanks, Jefffss!
November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month. How much do you know about the peanut butter industry? Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will tell. I scored 58%, which is only slightly better than average. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20131
Matthew Inman, who brought us 9 Reasons NOT to Date a Tyrannosaurus Rex and other funnies, has posted instructions for how to turn your car into an unstoppable murder machine! Link -via Everlasting Blort
Zilly Rosen of Zillycakes baked over 1200 mini cupcakes and frosted them with 9 different shades of fondant. Then she assembled them into a portrait of president-elect Barack Obama! She took the portrait to the Obama headquarters in Buffalo, New York the day after the election to say thanks to the volunteers. http://www.zillycakes.com/Obama_.php -via Grow-A-Brain
A baby born in Leizhou, Guangdong province, China has eight toes -on each foot! The unidentified newborn also has ten fingers, but no thumbs. Doctors say the odd arrangement could be genetic, or could have been caused by environmental pollution. Link -Thanks, Ross!
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