Yesterday’s post Samsung Dance featured people as pixel art, but this “art form” is by no means new. Dark Roasted Blend has a retrospective gallery of human pixel art going back to 1918. Some photos contain frontal nudity from a distance. Link -via Dump Trumpet

A stop-motion video of a baby and her magic teleporting chair! Push play or go to YouTube. This is the second video in a trilogy; the previous episode is here. The third part is yet to come. -via Everlasting Blort

The Smoking Gun has an extensive collection of mugshots, which they arrange occasionally into humorous sets. This one features people who were arrested wearing shirts with slogans that give a clue to their personalilty. Link -via Fark

Did you know that gravity is not the same over all the earth? That the moon is moving away from Earth? That the moon pulls at our air like it pulls the seas? Fogonazos has more fascinating facts, with links to further information on each. Link -via Look at This

Specially-designed costumes, discipline, and computer-generated choreography combine in this pixel dance in South Korea celebrating Samsung. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Videosift

Hang Nga's Tree House, or the Spider Web Chalet, is a hotel in Da Lat, Vietnam. Built by the daughter of an ex-president, it resembles a tree made of concrete. http://www.offbeathomes.com/the-spider-web-chalet/ More pictures here. -via Grow-A-Brain

Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal and O Grupo play water bottles, water jugs, and the lake itself. Push play or go to YouTube. Hear more of Pascoal’s music on his MySpace page. -via Metafilter

Do you think this might discourage a hijacking? -via Bits and Pieces

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