This lamp, named LULL, slowly turns itself off at night, and opens gradually like a flower in the morning while it intensifies to help you greet a new day! It's part of 40 of The Most Creative Lamp Designs Ever from Freshome. Link

Michelle Kempner designed this knit scarf called The Fuzz. Clever, huh? Link -Thanks, Tommy!

Update 2/10/09 - we now have this scarf at the Neatorama Online Store (cheaper, too!): http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?fuzz-crime-scene-scarf-pid206.html

Look at the bill on this hummingbird!

The Sword-billed Hummingbird is the only bird in the world which has a bill that is actually longer than its body. As such it is unable to preen itself and has to use its feet. This is universally acknowledged as one of nature’s stranger, funnier sights. The length of its bill is so it cal feed on plants with long corollas. As you might expect its tongue is also unusually long.

He is part of a collection of beautiful pictures of ten different hummingbird species. Link -Thanks, RJ Evans!

Here's a free pattern that will enable you to knit a roll of toilet paper. After all, who doesn’t need a roll of knitted toilet paper? Link -via Everlasting Blort

Eran Abramson has a roundup of 34 geeky jack-o-lanterns featuring scenes from movies, comics, computer logos, and video games. I particularly liked this Pac-Man tableau. Link -Thanks, Eran!

How's this for a t-shirt to wear while getting your mug shot taken? This guy was caught at a motel in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky during a drug raid.

In June, officers received a tip about drug activity at the USA Motel on Dixie Highway. Police dogs searched the room and found marijuana packaged for sale, scales and cash.

Police arrested 19-year-old Gregory Griggs and charged him with trafficking marijuana. When arrested Griggs was wearing a T-shirt that read "It's not ILLEGAL unless you get CAUGHT".

Griggs pled guilty and will be sentenced on December first. Link -via Fark

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The folks who brought you the Literal Take On Me followed that up with Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears. Smooth! -via beta

Even if you are a cat lover, you'll laugh when you see how well this works. You might feel guilty afterward, but you'll laugh.

Have a cat that won't stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).

Link -via Cynical-C

This little robot plant stand moves around to find where the sun shines for the plant it holds! Link -Thanks, dave austin!

Are you in college? Do you have a blog? College Scholarships.org is gearing up for third annual Blogging Scholarship giveaway. One blogger will win a $10,000 scholarship. You must enter by writing an essay and get it in by October 30th. Judges will narrow the competition down to ten finalists, who will be voted on by the online community. Link -Thanks, Giovanna Villanueva!

Ew, what's that on your floor?

Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Road Kill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that attracts you to take a nap on it. But at the same time its a repulsive image of a car-flattened, bloody fox.

From Studio OOOMS. Link -Thanks, Jon Jason!

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Ben Stiller mugs it up in a Japanese drink ad. It's just one of a slew of videos in The Top U.S. Celebrities as seen in Japanese Commercials. Also see Madonna, Harrison Ford, Britney Spears, Anthony Hopkins and many more. Link -Thanks, chris!

Imagine staying in a castle built several hundred years ago. If these walls could talk! But some are rumored to do just that ...or have ghosts of former residents walking the halls. This post details ten such locations. Pictured is Brissac Castle in France, which was suddenly sold by its owner, Jacques de Breze, after his wife Charlotte and her lover were killed there. Her ghost is said to have remained afterward. Link -Thanks, Lauren Axelrod!

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Socyberty has a nice collection of vintage Halloween postcards from bygone days. Link -via the Presurfer

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Have you ever wanted to live in a round home? There are plenty of ways to do it!

Now, designers have planned dome homes, tents, personal mini-domes and fantastical structures that serve as beautiful homes, that save up to seventy percent on heating and cooling and that can withstand many “Acts of God.” While domes have their opponents, their objections - more often than not - have been overturned. Building codes, sound problems, privacy and weatherproofing all have been resolved through compromise, extensions, building in levels, and building with new materials. This type of home uses less material and labor and are suited to mass production.

See 25 different dome homes. Pictured is Steve Miller's (not the guitarist) Ply Sphere. Link -Thanks, Brian T!