Seventeen tons of silver and gold coins have been found in a shipwreck off the British coast. The cache could be worth up to half a billion dollars! Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. made the find, but company spokemen will not give the exact location of the unidentified colonial-era ship. Link -via Simply Left Behind
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Seventeen tons of silver and gold coins have been found in a shipwreck off the British coast. The cache could be worth up to half a billion dollars! Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. made the find, but company spokemen will not give the exact location of the unidentified colonial-era ship. Link -via Simply Left Behind
Mathematicians Pictures is a unique gift shop catering to mathematicians and math geeks. Some greeting cards, t-shirts, and posters are hard for a non-math person to follow, but this American Pi mug should appeal to everyone. Link -via Grow-A-Brain
Photographer and fisherman Corey Arnold has an awesome photo esssay on his experiences as an Alaskan fisherman, considered one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in America. http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=606&Itemid=92 -via Metafilter
A competitive bodybuilder explains his diet in depth. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Knife Writer (Thanks, Jan!)
(You may need to push "permalink" to hear this over the Deflector game)
Sideshow World is an online museum and archive of the circus and carnival sideshows of the past. You’ll find pictures, stories, and links about performers and exhibits, and daily updates. Link -via the Presurfer
Irene Sendler posed as a nurse and smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto, saving their lives during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Now at age 97, Sendler is starting to reap the rewards of her actions as Poland recognized her heroism during a ceremony in March. Read her amazing story at Yahoo News. Link -via Scribal Terror
In 1991, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenerry endorsed the triple-star system 40 Eridani as the sun of the planet Vulcan, home of Mr. Spock. Now, NASA is planning a mission called SIM PlanetQuest that will scan 40 Eridani for signs of planets that could sustain life. The primary star, 40 Eridani A, shows the possibility that a planet of mass similar to Earth’s could have formed there. The system is 16 light years from Earth. SIM Planet Quest is scheduled to launch in 2015. Link
Smoky the cat owes his life to the London Fire Department and Reynolds from Random Acts of Reality. The cat was rescued from a house on fire in London and given oxygen and an ambulance ride to the local vetrinary hospital. http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/16/2955025.html -via Cynical-C
Our link seems to be blocked, but you can access the story through Cynical-C. (Thanks, tinfoil!)
Update: Here's the LOLcat version.
The dog beats his owner playing Wii Tennis. Yes, its a setup, but still funny! Push play or go to YouTube. -via http://www.b3ta.com/
The Cannes Film Festival is going on now through May 27th. You can follow the action with the IFC Cannes Cam. The webcam will be on 24 hours a day. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
Donato Di Carlo made an animated cartoon of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes as his final project at CFP Milano film school. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Fuzzytopia
Slovenian artist Vinko Bogataj painted Morning in Lesce (pictured above) among other surreal and beautiful landscapes. If the name sounds familiar, you might remember that Bogataj was immortalized by ABC’s Wide World of Sports when they used his ski jump as the illustration for “the agony of defeat†in the show intro. {YouTube} Since retiring from his factory job in 2005, Bogataj has dedicated himself to his childhood dream of creating artworks. Link -via Metafilter
Movie quotes that count themselves down! Alonzo Mosley of the La-La Land Library took on quite a challenge for his first video project. Push play or go to YouTube. http://dieselpowerednuns.blogspot.com/ to Mosley’s blog. -via Militant Platypus
The white marble of the Taj Mahal in Agra is looking yellow due to air pollution. India’s parlaiment suggests a mud pack treatment may be in order.
The treatment is expected to take two months and cost around $230,000. Link -via Arbroath
"To restore the pristine glory of the Taj Mahal, as a conservation measure, the clay pack treatment, which is non-corrosive and non-abrasive, should be carried out for the removal of the accretionary deposits," the report said.
The report recommends that the application of a mud pack should be a regular event to keep the marble's surface clean.
The treatment is expected to take two months and cost around $230,000. Link -via Arbroath
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