Karenika is collecting photographs to share the beauty of all 50 states. You can submit a photo from your state! Click the state name at the side to see the photographs. This picture is Main Street in Telluride, Colorado, submitted by Dinah. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Dark Roasted Blend has a roundup of ways people have recycled old computers and discs. Link

A research team led by Christian Rutz of the University of Oxford mounted tiny cameras on the tails of crows to study their behavior in the wild. The study found that crows use tools (sticks, leaves, blades of grass) more extensively than previously thought. Crows were even observed carrying their favorite tool from place to place! Of course, now crows are using cameras to help researchers, too, which is strange enough in itself. Link

Update 10/4/07 by Alex: Here's the video: Link - Thanks Marilyn Terrell!

You would have to be totally insane to ride this amusement park ride. I bet they waited in line, too! Push play or go to Glumbert. -via Gorilla Mask

Vanessa Woods studies Bonobos. She is a researcher with the Hominoid Psychology Research Group, and is currently in Africa doing field work.

Bonobo share 98.7% of our DNA, equal to our more famous cousins, chimpanzees. But unlike chimps, we know hardly anything about them. Part of the reason for this is that there's been civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the last 10 years and bonobos don't live anywhere else. The other reason is that to see wild bonobos, you have to be prepared to canoe for 4 days up the Congo River through malaria infested swamps.

You can follow Wood's adventures and research (with videos) on her blog Bonobo Handshake. Link -via Metafilter

Stephanie Keith met a Vodou priest at a Buddhist interfaith event in New York. He invited her to photograph and experience the religious world of his Haitian culture. Ten ceremonies later, she offers her images and reflections on these late-night rituals.

Produced by Trent Gilliss and Mitch Hanley

Push play or go to Vimeo. -via Metafilter

Young kids will enjoy this: Click the buttons to change each feature of a funny face. The features are mainly composed of random objects that fit just enough to make a recognizable face. Link -via Everlasting Blort

It’s a home that floats! Up to six people can live in it. There are five levels, both above and below water level. Equipped with electrical generator and water storage. It can be yours for only $2.5 million! http://www.sub-find.com/jellyfish.htm -via Metafilter

A tiny dachshund named Daisy found a bone while strolling along the shore in Dunwich, England. But this was no ordinary dog bone -it was a fossilized thighbone of a mammoth! The bone, which is as big as Daisy, could be 2 million years old. Link -via Fark

Boris Tsikanovsky had a cat named Flo, who sometimes brought prey into the house. To stop this, he rigged up a Practical Image Recognition System. A profile image is taken as soon as the cat begins to enter. If the image is not the cat’s normal recognizable profile, the cat door will not open. So if the cat is carrying something in her mouth, she cannot come in the house! This system also keeps other critters from entering. The explanation is a bit technical, but the pictures tell the story. You can also track the activities of his current cats, Squirrel and Alexia, at the “Flo Watch” page. Link -via Reddit

If you really want to retire from the world, live in a really inaccessable place! Dark Roasted Blend takes a pictorial tour of four monasteries built on top, clinging to the side of, or inside mountains. This one is Sigiriya, in Sri Lanka. Link

This Flickr set is an art project to show you what the classifications underweight, normal, overweight, obese, and morbidly obese look like on real people. Can you guess how these three people are classified? Link -via Metafilter

It’s not easy being a cuckoo! Push play or go to Daily Motion. -via Viral Video Chart

Radar Online has a gallery of new designer purses juxtaposed with the scary movie characters they resemble. This picture is the least scary of the collection. Link -via Metafilter

As the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty enters its third year, the latest video really hits home to those of us who have daughters. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to campaign site. -via Viral Video Chart