Flight nurse Chris Fogg was transporting a patient on June 27th when the plane window exploded. The twin-engine piper turboprop was cruising at 20,000 feet at the time! Fogg was sucked halfway out the window, with only his legs and one arm inside the plane. He managed to hold one while the pilot dived to a lower altitude to stabilize the cabin pressure, then pulled himself back into the plane. Uninjured, Fogg flew again the next day. Link (includes video simulation)

What seems to be a new species of squid has been found in Hawaii. The creature was retreived from a deep-sea water filter at the Natural Energy Laboratory.

According to Richard Young, an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the specimen tentatively belongs to the genus Mastigoteuthis, but the species is undetermined.

War, who termed the specimen "octosquid" for the way it looked, said it was about a foot long, with white suction cups, eight tentacles and an octopus head with a squidlike mantle.

Mastigoteuthis {wiki} is the whiplash squid. Link -via Metafilter

Although you might be tired of internet image macros, death metal or black metal band publicity photos lend themselves to some pretty strange captions. The link at the end of the article will take you to more images. Link -via Look at This

A rare Sumatran tiger foiled poachers by escaping from a trap and surviving without his foot. The tiger was photographed in March and May by motion-sensor cameras in the Tesso Nilo national park.

In normal circumstances the beast would have been expected to die from blood loss or an infection, or simply to starve to death because of a severely reduced capacity to hunt.

However, to the astonishment of conservationists, the tiger appears to have recovered from the loss and is managing to catch enough food to keep it healthy. “His condition seemed quite stable,” Sunarto, a WWF biologist in Sumatra, said. “He has been surviving – I don’t know how. It’s very surprising he’s still alive.”

The Sumatran tiger is the most endangered tiger in the world. Link -via Fark

Aerial Archaeology in Northern France has low-altitude photographs of the land and the often confusing images left by past residents. Clues to ancient land registries, past structures, and landscapes changes can often be seen from above. For example, what some would label as a crop circle in the picture above was identified as the traces of an Bronze Age funerary monument.

...this site is primarily a collection of images of the many ways that the past has left its trace, of the memory of the land observed from low altitude. You must first learn to decipher these "land hieroglyphics", which at first will seem puzzling and strange.

Link -via Ursi’s Blog

If you don’t speak the language, you can point to the symbols on this shirt to ask where to find what you need! Ladies may achieve faster results. Link -via Nag on the Lake

Chuck Lamb wants to play a dead body in your next movie or TV show, so he posted an online resume and gallery. He’s had some success, with four movies listed in his imdb page. He also has a list of the “Top 10 Things that has happened to me since I started Dead Body Guy.”

10. Winning the L.A. Indie Award
9. Touring CNN and slobbering on Lou Dobbs' desk
8. Being in Wikipedia
7. My photo hanging at the world famous Carnegie Deli
6. Being in Penthouse Magazine (how many guys can say that?)
5. 2 page spread in the National Examiner TABLOID!!!!
4. Being a Jeopardy question
3. Playing dead on the red carpet at the Academy Awards
2. Selected as one of the best guest of 2006 on The TODAY Show
AND NUMBER 1!!!!
Hearing the legend Mickey Rooney say the "F" word

Link -via the Presurfer

Joey Chesnut set another world record for hot dog eating today, defeating six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island. Chesnut downed 66 hot dogs in twelve minutes. Kobayashi had a personal-best 63 hot dogs. Link

Despite the way they are dressed, these guys are pretty good. What, you didn’t know this song had words? Push play or go to YouTube. YesButNoButYes has this and eight other eclectic version of Stars and Stripes Forever, including hand fart, ukulele, and electric guitar. Link

Hot dogs are a traditional part of Fourth of July celebrations. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories explains how to cook your weiners in a thoroughly unsafe way. Or you could just read about it.

While we could give you lots of warnings about all the different dangers involved and how to possibly skirt them, the simple truth is that this just isn't safe. If you are foolish enough to attempt this, you will have to deal with pointy things, raw electricity out of the wall, hot steam, and the possibility of fire. If that isn't enough, and you succeed, you are still faced with the possibility of having to eat a hot dog. In summary: do not, under any circumstances, cook hot dogs this way.

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From Colour Lovers, the folks who brought you Butterflies and Their Color Palettes, here are pleasing color combinations gleaned from famous paintings. Link -via Dump Trumpet

Amongst a pack of bottlenose dolphins in Calcasieu Lake in Louisiana, this pink dolphin stands out. It’s a rare albino dolphin, unrelated to the species of pink dolphin found in the Amazon. Link -via Arbroath

Along with fireworks, parades, and picnics, another Independence Day tradition is Nathan's Famous July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest, held annually since 1916. This year’s competition will pit new world record holder Joey Chesnutt against six-time winner Takeru Kobayashi (who is recovering from wisdom tooth surgery). The last time an American won the event was in 1999. $20,000 and the “mustard belt” are up for grabs today in Coney Island. The event will be broadcast live at 12:40PM by ESPN. Link

Sweden has found another way to recycle. Almost all alcoholic drinks smuggled into Sweden illegally that the government seizes are now turned into biogas to run public vehicles. Last year 700,000 liters (184,000 US gallons or 154,000 UK gallons) were converted to biogas for buses, trucks, and one train. Link -via Arbroath

The FuelVapor alé is a sportscar with three wheels, but two of them are in the front! It runs on fuel vapor instead of liquid gas, so it uses about one-third the normal amount of fuel for a car of its kind, supposedly 92 mpg. And the emissions are very low. Top Gear says the FuelVapor alé will be on sale in 2008. No word yet on how much it will cost. Link