Jeroen and Sandra Kippers of Brussels, Belgium were lifted on a platform by crane up 160 feet in the air for their wedding ceremony. They were joined by the officiant and about 20 guests. Another platform held the musicians. After the vows, they made it official by bungee-jumping over the side!

The company behind the nutty nuptials - Marriage In The Sky - have been inundated with requests from couples desperate to fling themselves off the end of the aisle.

But the ultimate thrill-seekers' wedding doesn't have to end there - once the wedding party have all been lowered back to earth, guests can head skywards again - for a floating reception.

Wedding guests are wowed with a three-course wedding breakfast - all while strapped in to the dining chairs.

The cost for such a spectacular? Around £25,000. Link -via Unique Daily

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Previously (from the same company): Dinner in the Sky

US prisons are used more and more for manufacturing. You know about license plates, but private companies also contract for prison labor to make some of the things you use every day.

The companies who employ prison labour for making dentures and other dental appliances are members of the National Association of Dental Laboratories, so they must have their workers properly trained to do the job. This may actually give a skill that could be used on the outside and keep prisoners from re-offending.

That's just one of the items on the list of Everyday Things You Didn't Know Are Made in Prisons. Link

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Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding perform a mesmerizing hand dance. -via Everlasting Blort

You know LOLcats and RickRolls, and you are probably somewhat familiar with Pedo Bear, but do you know Preved Medved and Snel Hest? They are internet memes from non-English speaking countries. A couple of years ago, I wondered why there were so many photographs of half-naked men hanging outside apartment windows as their lover's husbands arrived -now I know: they was born from a Russian meme called PhotoExtreme. Snel Hest is a Swedish horse and Preved Medved is a Russian bear.

"Preved Medved," though slightly and deliberately misspelled, means "Hello Bear" in Russian. In practical terms, the rules of the meme are the same as for his equally retarded American cousin, Pedobear: take any regular picture, Photoshop Preved Medved into it and it's as good as a joke.

One image is NSFW. Link -via The Daily What

The geeks shall inherit the earth? Vanity Fair made a list of the 100 most influential people, and internet geeks dominate the top slots.

1. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
2. Steve Jobs (Apple)
3. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Erick Schmidt (Google)
4. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)
5. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
6. Bernard Arnault (LVMH)
7. Michael Bloomberg (mayor of New York City)
8. Larry Ellison (Oracle)
9. Evan Williams and Biz Stone (Twitter)
10. John Malone (Liberty Media)

All 100 are profiled at Vanity Fair. Link -via Holy Kaw!

Of all the "California Gurls" parodies you've heard, this one is most likely to hit home. Team Unicorn got together to sing the praises of "Geek and Gamer Girls."

Yeah, this is another one of those Caligornia Girls parodies… but this one is really, really cool. Apart from starring the four sexy geekettes from Team Unicorn, the video also features a rapping Seth Green, Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, and legendary comic book writer Stan Lee.

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The Hair Hall of Fame is a blog that pays tribute to bygone but unforgettable hairstyles -and some modern styles, too! Shown are actresses Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave in the big hair days of the '70s. Link -via Everlasting Blort

US college football conferences have reshuffled their membership this year. That's the subject of a tough Lunchtime Quiz today at mental_floss. If you know the history of the conferences, you just might do well. I didn't. Link

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Budget cuts make a librarian's day more hectic than ever! This video was made by Sean Bonney and the employees of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia. -Thanks, Sean!

Who says high school science is boring? A hazmat team was summoned to a school in Prince George, British Columbia when a can of sauerkraut exploded!

Twenty-four students and four staff members at Kelly Road Secondary School were put into quarantine Friday afternoon after a can of the preserved cabbage exploded in a food sciences class.

Teachers didn't know what was inside the can when it blew up, and called the local fire department and police to prevent an outbreak of botulism, a potentially fatal disease caused by bacteria sometimes found in canned food.

Investigators were soon able to identify the substance as the popular German sausage topping, which had been left to ferment for years.

When the hazmat team was finished, students were sent home for the day. Link -via Fortean Times

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One thing that can make you feel better about the weird things in your home is to see how much worse it could be. A plumbing information site compiled stories, links, and videos of plumbing disasters that range from "substandard" to "Rube Goldberg"! Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

During the Jim Crow era in the United States, it was neither easy nor safe for African-Americans to travel from town to town. For three decades, The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide was an indispensable resource for finding a place to stay, eat, or buy gas in towns across America. Not necessarily the best places, but any place that would provide accommodations at all if you weren't white.

A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong. These were facts of life not only in the Jim Crow South, but in all parts of the country, where black travelers never knew where they would be welcome. Over time its full title — “The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide” — became abbreviated, simply, as the “Green Book.” Those who needed to know about it knew about it. To much of the rest of America it was invisible, and by 1964, when the last edition was published, it slipped through the cracks into history.

The Green Book has been revived in a way, as a new play and a children's book about the travel guide and those who used it are set to debut. Link -via Metafilter

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If you want to make your wedding day one to remember, why not take a part of it and make it unique, an expression of your personality or interests? The wedding cake is an artful way to do that without affecting the ceremony itself. Rue the Day has a wonderful collection of creative geek wedding cakes, like this cake with bride and groom daleks on top! Link

The lady shown here is wearing "chopines", or platform shoes. Chopines were worn in the Middle Ages to keep feet and dress hems out of the dust and mud. They also came to represent class, as a taller woman was obviously of a "higher" class. However, this picture was taken in 1873 in Damascus. Read more on the history of shoe lifts at TYWKIWDBI. Link

You'll get a kick out of this public service announcement urging British citizens to support publicly funded arts programs, by David Shrigley, who also brought us Pringle of Scotland. The government has proposed a 25% cut in arts programs. A group of around 100 artists are banding together to protest the cuts. Link