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Charlie Schmidt, the creator of the original keyboard cat video with his cat Fatso thirty years ago, has trained another cat to play piano! This cat is named Bento. http://www.charlieschmidt.com/index2.asp -via Laughing Squid

Jojo Krang used hard-boiled eggs to make a chicken family, with a mother hen and  five baby chicks! Great for a party, but could you bring yourself to actually eat them? Instructions are included. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Some of these stories will cause outrage or sadness, and some will make you cringe at how important the prom is for high school students. Then there are a few stories to warm your heart, like that of 84-year-old Kenneth Smith. Smith was called up to serve in World War II and didn't finish high school or attend the prom. The Chester High School class of 2008 invited Smith to their prom.

A friend arranged for him to receive an honorary diploma from Chester High School, just outside Philadelphia, and finally go to the prom. He did - at the Springfield Country Club. Smith said this prom wasn't just for him. He said it was also for all the other soldiers who couldn't make it to their own.

See all ten prom stories at Oddee. Link -via Unique Daily

NASA has been making posters of their missions available for years, but they were usually pretty straightforward. Then in 2008, someone got the idea to recreate a Matrix-style poster featuring the mission astronauts. Ever since then, the posters have been designed to mimic science fiction or action movie posters. Link to story. http://sfa.nasa.gov/products.cfm to poster gallery. -via Digg

Fffireburns and Matt baked cookies and decorated them to match Lady Gaga's costumes! Each is shown in close up side-by-side with a photo of the singer wearing the outfit depicted. This took a lot of work. Link -via YesButNoButYes

Listverse has ten fascinating stories about animals saving the lives of humans. Four involve dogs, and surprisingly, three stories are about life-saving dolphins!

Davide Ceci was 14 years old and couldn’t swim when he fell out of his Fathers boat in south-east Italy; he was within minutes of death when dolphin Filippo came to his rescue. Filippo had been a popular tourist attraction off Manfredonia in south-east Italy for two years. While Emanuele Ceci was still unaware his son had fallen into the waves, Filippo was pushing him up out of the water to safety. The dolphin bore down on the boat and got close enough for Davide’s father to grab him.

The heroes also include a cat, a calf, and a gorilla. Link -via Look At This

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Wired has a gallery of twelve trees from all over the world that have outlived everything around them. The oldest started life at least 80,000 years ago, but may be much older! The tree shown is the Llangernyw Yew in Wales, which is only three to four thousand years old, but is one of the prettiest trees in the collection. Link

Previously at Neatorama: 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World

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Life flourishes in the strangest places on earth. From the YouTube link:

At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming beneath the ice.

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Is this a scene from Finding Nemo? Or Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds? No, this bird was caught absconding with a piece of lunch on Google Street View, specifically on John Street in Brighton, England. Link -via reddit

Why serve a cheese ball when you can serve Steve Jobs' head on a platter? Ken carved this from mozzarella cheese for his iPad launch party! See the process in pictures at The Cook's Den, with recipes for the other foods served with the Apple "head cheese" (strangely, I see no apples, but you'll find iPad Thai). Link

If you're not going to partake of green beer this St. Patricks Day, maybe you could celebrate with green food. But don't limit yourself to salad! There are plenty of green things to eat that you wouldn't think of eating any other day. Pictured is jalapeno jelly.

For the people who like a little bit of pop to that morning piece of toast. Most 8 oz jars of this southwestern concoction can have up to a pound of jalapeno peppers in them. If that doesn’t open your eyes in the morning, I dunno what will.

Jalapeno jelly isn't exactly Irish, but hey, it's green! Link -via YesButNoButYes

This is a really tiny Enterprise. This image won the prize for Best Ion MicroGraph in the 47th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest. It was created and recorded by Takayuki Hoshino and Shinji Matsui of the Himeji Institute of Technology.

The space ship Enterprise NCC-1701D of Star Trek was fabricated in one-billionth scale by 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion- beam CVD using phenanthrene gas. Length 8.8 µm.

Link -via Bad Astronomy Blog

The Art of Manliness has a glossary of manly terms used over 100 years ago. Some terms survived well into the 20th century; I've used "a month of Sundays" myself. Others are strange but maybe you can guess the meanings, as in "Shut your bone box, you saucebox, or my bunch of fives will give you a fizzing blinker!" Link -via Boing Boing

We are familiar with leprechauns, although the American version from the Lucky Charms package isn't quite the original. There are plenty of other creatures from Irish folklore you can learn about in this list. Have you ever heard of the Bean Nighe?

The Bean Nighe is the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth, condemed to wash blood the shrouds of the soon-to-be-dead for until the time at which they would have died of old age. The spirit has one nostril, one long fang, sagging breasts, and webbed feet. If you're brave enough to steal a suck off her breast, you can claim status as her foster child, and she will grant you a wish.

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ScienceBlogs, together with Serious Eats, held a Pi Day Bake-Off to celebrate Pi Day on March 14th. They received 35 pie entries, which have been narrowed down to ten finalists. Not only are these "pi pies" decorated in a mathematically clever way, they look scrumptious! Shown is Claudette's amazing One-Hundred-Digit pie made with cherries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries. Sure it's not round, but remember, pie are square! Link to photographs. Link to voting.