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Glamorous Insects

Dark Roasted Blend has a gallery of beautiful photographs of exotic insects by various photographers. This one is an Idolomantis diabolica, or a Devil's Flower Mantis. Link

(Image credit: Igor Siwanowicz)

Food Chain Fossil Found

A vertebrate “food chain” fossil has been found in Germany. It was a shark that had eaten an amphibian that had eaten a fish. Scientists compared the fossil to Russian nesting dolls.
The fossilized trio lived 290 million years ago in the shallow coastal waters of a freshwater lake in the Saar-Nahe Basin of southwestern Germany. The lake had previously been linked to the sea but was landlocked for millions of years before the three animals lived and died.

Several pieces of evidence suggest the animals must have formed part of a single food chain.

Link

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald


(YouTube link)

The Edmund Fitzgerald {wiki} was a lake freighter that sank on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the incident in a song in 1976. Here is the song in tribute to those who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald 32 years ago today. ~via Viral Video Chart

Dangerous


I received this picture via email. The subject line was “Why trampolines are dangerous.” ~Thanks, Jan!

LOLinator

You can turn just about any website into a LOLcats site with LOLinator. Enter the URL of the targeted site, and see the LOLcat version. You can even LOLinate an individual post, like this recent item at Neatorama. http://lolinator.com/

This Man Loves his Croc

The video clip at Japan Probe tells the story (in Japanese) of a Thai man who lost his wife and his job, then met a baby crocodile and bonded with him. Link ~via Gorilla Mask

LOLsaur


LOLsaur is just what it sounds like, image macros featuring dinosaurs. Rawr! http://lolsaur.com/ ~via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Poor Hamster

An animated song from ytmnd. A silly, sadistic, somewhat gory song. Poor hamster, poor hamster, why must your life be so tough? Link ~via b3ta

License to Rant

License to Rant is a blog of license plates, particularly vanity plates that cause you to scratch your head and wonder what they were thinking. This one was inspired by the wedding scene in The Princess Bride. Others are so hard to decipher that commenters leave their best guess. Link ~via Grow~A~Brain

This Cat Should Have Been a Dog


(Shoutfile link)

This cat apparently didn’t read the cat manual. At least the page that states cats do not learn tricks. ~via Unique Daily

People with High IQs

You may have guessed that Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking have high IQs, but some of these may surprise you. This post gives some background on IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and has a list of people alive today with high IQs and estimated IQs of people from history. Link ~via the Presurfer

Robo Rucksack

Six-year-old James Scowcroft came up with the idea of a talking schoolbag, which can remind students of the things they need to pack.
James devised his Robo Rucksack, with flashing antenna and five buttons to allow the owner to pre-record messages, as part of a museum competition.

James's bag was judged the best and turned into reality by design firm Innovate.

James said he is keen to keep on inventing in the future, with a rucksack that helps with the cleaning next on his list, along with a time machine to allow him to see the way his mum looked "in the old days".

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England sponsored the competition. I want two, as I repeat myself too many times about packing a schoolbag every morning! Link ~via Arbroath

Domino Village

The new ad for Guiness stout will debut on TV tonight, but is available on the net already. It shows the biggest domino fall you can imagine.
Shot in an Argentinian mountainside village, it features a game of dominoes which escalates to include suitcases, tyres, oil drums, fridges, wardrobes and cars.

Proving that "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait", it culminates with the pages of 10,000 books flipping open to create a giant pint of Guinness.

The advert, part of a £10 million campaign, was directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, who was behind the Sony Bravia "balls" commercial.

Link ~via Fark

Iceberg Breaks Up


(Live Leak link)

If someone told me the local iceberg was collapsing, I would be out there with the crowd watching it. This was recorded in Argentina. The show gets more intense toward the end. ~via Ursi’s Blog

Update: I did a little digging, and this has been identified as the Perito Moreno Glacier {wiki} in Los Glaciares National Park. The breakup is a natural phenomena that can be forecasted, but it’s not regular, happening every one to ten years. It's a big tourist attraction.

These Rocks Rock!


wedged between the walls of a mountain crevice in norway is a rock called kjeragbolten. the rock is often stood on by tourists for a crafty photograph whilst attempting not to look down at the 3000ft+ drop. i’m assuming the sheep/goat in the picture below was a local.

Kjeragbolten is just one of a collection of "rocks that rock" today at deputy dog. http://deputy-dog.com/2007/11/06/these-rocks-rock/

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