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Remember the Dove Evolution ads? Foster Farms took the concept and modified it just a bit to advertise chicken. -via YesButNoButYes

Eve, a hen in Worcestershire, had a leg amputated 18 months ago due to cancer. Now she has undergone surgery to remove a tumor from her remaining leg, at a cost of over £1,000. Owner Elaine Denney said money is not an issue.

"I wouldn't put Eve through it if I didn't think she still would have quality of life and if I thought she would suffer too much during the treatment."

Link -via Arbroath, who has the video report.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a new business card. It’s a working circuit board! See how they made it, what it can do, and how you can design one yourself. Link

How much do you know about Scrabble? Take the lunchtime quiz at mental_floss and see how your game knowledge stacks up against others. I must admit, I’m better at playing the game than taking a quiz about it! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12902

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Who says three dimensions are better than two? This trailer for Echochrome, a yet-to-be-released game for the PlayStation Portable shows someone the things that are possible in 2D, but not 3D. -via the Presurfer

In this game, you are challenged to find ten gnomes hidden in a panoramic photograph. Click an area to zoom in, and click near the bottom of the picture to zoom out. But hurry! You’ve only got ten minutes. There are two games, one on the rooftops and one in the park. Link -via Militant Platypus

101-year-old Buster Martin is set to compete in the London Marathon on April 13th.

Working plumber Buster Martin ran Sunday's Roding Valley half marathon in Essex in five hours 13 minutes, and is now focusing on London's 26-mile event.

On finishing the run, the first words of the ex-member of rock band The Zimmers were: "Where's my beer?"

Mr Martin, who has 17 children, started work at Pimlico Plumbers in London three years ago because he was bored.

The Zimmers were featured previously on Neatorama. Mr. Martin doesn’t look 101, does he? Link -via Arbroath

DDB Colombia produced ads for the Colombian Association of Arterial Hypertension featuring the undead. This one is called “Home”. The caption reads: Without knowing you can be dying. High cholesterol injures your heart. There are two other ads in the series featuring zombies in everyday situations. Link -via the Presurfer

NASA released an image of the earth and the moon in one picture, as seen from Mars. It was taken by the HiRISE Instrument on October 3rd, 2007.

On the Earth image we can make out the west coast outline of South America at lower right, although the clouds are the dominant features. These clouds are so bright, compared with the Moon, that they are saturated in the HiRISE images. In fact, the RED-filter image was almost completely saturated, the blue-green image had significant saturation, and the brightest clouds were saturated in the IR image. This color image required a fair amount of processing to make a nice-looking release.

“Nice-looking” is an understatement. http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/earthmoon.php -via Bad Astronomy Blog

(image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Weemade is a new blog that showcases children’s artwork.

Here at weemade, we find the artwork and creativity of kids inspiring, thought provoking, entertaining, and unpretentious. We think that reminding ourselves how children see the world is a valuable and enlightening process.

Anyone can add artwork, credited or anonymously, but all submissions will be screened before posting. http://theblog.weemade.com/ -via J-Walk Blog

"Avalanche control" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but deputydog has uncovered three ways people have engineered communities to protect homes from an avalanche. Building your home somewhere besides underneath a snowy mountain is not one of the three, although it is mentioned. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/03/02/man-vs-mountain-avalanche-control-structures/

Noel Cruz (Noeling) takes celebrity collector dolls and painstakingly repaints them to more resemble the person they portray.

I used a 16-inch Mary Poppins doll here produced by Robert Tonner Doll company - a very nicely made facial sculpt but the facial paint left much to be desired. So, I completely removed factory facial painting and hand painted it to more faithfully replicate Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. The doll's hair has been extensively restyled to more accurately represent the character's hairstyle from the movie.

His Deviant Art page has many more repainted dolls, some of which are for sale. Link -via Dump Trumpet

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A short and sad animation by Ilias Sounas. One of the linked animations from the collection entitled 25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies. Link -via the Presurfer

WR 104 is a binary star 8,000 light years from Earth. Both stars are on the brink of exploding, possibly into gamma-ray bursts, which can send a narrow beam of destructive gamma rays to far away planets. Since the pole of the spiral disc formed by the two stars seems to point at us, there has been some speculation that earth would be in the path of such a beam. Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy Blog explains the phenomenon and why we shouldn’t worry about it. Link

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If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it might look like this...

This was a school project. The song is "Machine" by the Buddy Rich Band off the album Big Swing Face (1967).

Saul Bass designed title sequences for 60s movies Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, and It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, among others. -via Cynical-C