New footage of Nora, the Piano-Playing Cat. The "call and reponse" section is priceless! I think Nora has grown to love the camera as well as the piano. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Metafilter

Artwork from the Workplace features things created by people who are bored at work.

Of course not all jobs are constantly tedious through and through, but only a bunch of precious few jobs are exent of periodical boredom. And it is when boredom kicks in that something beautiful happens: people seek refuge from despair in drawing away, or making unexpected sculptures, writing rhymes… That is the Artwork from the Workplace.

Submissions are welcome. Link Thanks, jonkysit!

Jim Henson and Frank Oz tackling the Computer Age. Push play or go to YouTube. -via the Presurfer

Update: Anita Bath has more details. This funny computer video, titled Coffee Break Machine, was created by Jim Henson in 1967 as an IBM training video. At the time, the monster was named "Arnold the Munching Monster".

The 101st anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthqake was last Wednesday. There was a ceremony to mark the occasion, but only one earthqake survivor was healthy enough to attend: 104-year-old Herbert Hamrol. Hamrol said work is one of the secrets to his long life.

He still holds down a job rearranging the merchandise at Andronico's supermarket in the Sunset District two days a week.

"I like what I do and they like me,'' he said. He said he'd worked for Andronico's for 50 years, more or less, and he plans to be back on the job today as usual. "The retirement benefits are good there,'' he said.

Link to story. Link to video from last year. -via Metafilter

There may be as few as a couple dozen Borneo rhinos left in the world, making it one of the world's rarest animal species. The first still photograph of a Borneo rhino was taken only last year. Now, a World Wildlife Foundation project has captured the first video footage of the Borneo rhino. Link -via Arbroath

Yes, there are places you can mail a letter underwater. Gadling lists five of them. Link -via Dump Trumpet

What do you get when you combine Legos, robots, and videogames? WiigoBot is a Lego NXT Wii Playing Robot that can bowl a perfect game! Push play or go to YouTube. BattleBricks has more on Wiigobot with pictures and a link to building instructions. Link -via Metafilter

I don’t know, either, but there are some suggestions in the comments at Flickr. Link -via Reddit

This updated version of the Mah Nà Mah Nà {wiki} song features WoW characters trying to pronounce l33t terms. Yes, I laughed! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Fuzzytopia

Skulls in Culture takes a look at how mankind has regarded and portrayed human (and non-human) skulls through the ages.

Skulls do more than just protect the brain — they also stimulate the mind. Often symbols of mortality and power, they have been employed in human ceremony, ritual, and art for tens of thousands of years. From the ancient animal skulls in Paleolithic burial sites to the curlicued cattle skulls that float like spirits over Georgia O’Keefe’s canvas mountains, cultures around the world have turned to skulls to express ideas about both life and death.

http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/skulls_in_culture.html -via J-Walk Blog

Surprise your friends: no one expects to find a banana already sliced when they open the peel! Sara Thacher posted the technique she remembered from Mr. Wizard, with illustrations. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of the World’s Strangest Vehicles, inclding this three-wheeled high heel. There’s also a stretch Mini Cooper, which strikes me as an oxymoron. Link -via the Presurfer

This Russian site has eerily beautiful artwork designed from skeletal imagery. A rough Babelfish translation:

The mysterious X-rays, which penetrate into the depth of things, which luminesce their essence, revealing secrets, are more than 100 years ago opened by Roentgen, they became my artistic method.

Link -via All Night Surfing

Rob at Cockeyed.com made these Devo hats for a Guitar Hero party, and posted step-by-step instructions. Link -via Everlasting Blort

An average of 81 people die by gun every day in the US. The New York Times has a graphic showing the breakdown of those deaths by age, sex, race, and cause. Link -via Exploding Aardvark