STL Loftstyle, a furniture store, has an article about both furniture that discourages the homeless and furniture that helps the homeless get a night’s sleep. Pictured is the ParaSite project, which uses exhaust from HVAC units to keep a sleeper warm on the street. http://www.stlloftstyle.com/urban-furniture.html -via Reddit

Artists Cheri Pann & Gonzalo Duran live at the Mosaic Tile House in Venice, California. Purchased in 1994 as a fixer-upper, they began the mosaic tiles in the bathroom. They liked it so much, the project continued room after room! It’s still not finished, but you can see pictures of some of the rooms. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Take a look around at a public park before you travel! Virtual Parks is a site by photographer Erik Goetze, featuring 360-degree panoramas of beautiful parks and preserves in the western United States and elsewhere. Link -via Ursi’s Blog

Psilocybe cubensis "Burma" mushrooms fruiting on rye grain. Time lapse made using a computer and a Canon Powershot G3 camera.

Psilocybe cubensis {wiki} is the mushroom you could be arrested for possessing. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Cynical-C

The America’s Best Restroom competition is now open for your votes! Five restrooms have been designated as finalists.

Catch 31, Virginia Beach, VA
Fandangles' , Flushing, MI
Jungle Jim's International Market, Fairfield, OH
Mix Lounge at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
Vermont Marble Museum, Proctor, VT

Follow the links to see each restroom, and cast your vote before July 31st. http://www.bestrestrooms.com/ -via Fark

The World Worm Charming championship was held yesterday in Cheshire, England. Worm charming {wiki} is the act of attracting worms from the ground, originally for bait, but now also for competition. The world record is held by Tom Shufflebotham, who charmed 511 worms in 30 minutes! Link -via the Presurfer

Time to learn English! And spelling, too. -via Arbroath

It makes you pause when you find out things you bought new are now being sold as antiques. Distinctive Telephones sells antique, vintage, and reproduction telephones (the kind with a dial). I was a bit taken aback when I saw Princess phones for $182, but then I remembered how much Ma Bell charged for those phones new (on the monthly payment plan). http://www.distinctivetelephones.com/ -via Dump Trumpet

Link: PlayMyGame

At the site Play My Game, you can put yourself into a videogame! Upload a picture, choose from five games (boxiong, iDance, SuperMe, Cake Fight, or Birthday), and create an embeddable player. This is SuperMe shown. Link -via Ursi’s Blog

A tuxedo made of wine corks? That’s a corkxedo!

891 Corks Total

686 Corks in the Jacket

181 Corks in the Top Hat

24 Corks in the Cane

More than 240 Wineries Represented

Total Weight: Merely 15 Pounds

Oldest Cork: 1935 Chateau Lynch-Bages

Link -via Grow-A-Brain

In a fine example of cooperation in the animal kingdom, one panda boosts another to make an escape from their enclosure! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Digg

This weekend's full moon hangs lower in the sky than any other full moon of 2007, according to NASA, and it's a good time to be fooled.

When low on the horizon, the Moon can appear to be larger than when it's higher in the sky. It's all an illusion, scientists say, and it does not involve any enlarging effects of the atmosphere. Rather, it's all in your mind.

You can see this illusion Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Link

This is too funny. Scenes of Russian life, many from viral videos you're familiar with, set to the soundtrack of the trailer for the movie 300. From English Russia. Link (Thanks, Jan!)

Long before Tron in 1982, computers were used in the film industry. This article looks at the first computer rendering, the first computer animation, the first 3D CGI effects, etc. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Jose Geraldo Pfau Kings, an advertising executive in Santa Caterina, Brazil makes tiny motorcycles from watch parts! They are not for sale. Link -via the Presurfer