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How you get your ducks in a row in India. Or as close to a row as you can, with this many ducks! -via Arbroath

The Japanese appliance company Amandana has added whimsical warnings to their normal product warning illustrations. You cannot control your girlfriend with a remote control. You cannot fly your calculator as a kite. You cannot insert a parking ticket into your desktop music player. You cannot make yourself disappear with your humidifier. And you cannot trap monkeys with your DVD player! Gizmodo has a gallery of lots of these. Link -via Dump Trumpet

Most food items an be made more appealing with the addition of googly eyes, and now you can eat them, too! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made them and posted the instructions. And as a bonus, there’s the recipe for this edible Flying Spaghetti Monster. Link

Have you ever thought about owning a piece of real estate history?

On August 15, 1969, a farmer named Max Yasgur addressed one of largest assemblies ever to gather when he addressed the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in the name of peace, love and music.

Mr. Yasgur, now a cultural icon, allowed 40 acres of his 1,100 acre farm in upstate New York, to be used for Woodstock, thus making the musical and cultural event of the century possible.

Today, the home, barn and lands of the world’s most celebrated farmer can be yours, as the “For Sale” sign has gone up on the original homestead of Max Yasgur.

$8,000,000 and it’s yours. http://www.joshpeproperties.com/details.php?p=19 -via Metafilter

One of the three Chinese pigs bred in 2006 (previously at Neatorama) has given birth to eleven piglets after mating with a normal boar. Two of the piglets inherited the gene for Green Fluorescent Protein from the mother.

"The mouths, trotters and tongues of the two piglets glow green under ultraviolet light, which indicates the technology to breed transgenic pigs via cell nuclear transfer is mature," Liu Zhonghua, a professor at Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, was quoted as saying.

The first generation of glowing pigs was produced by injecting Green Fluorescent Protein while they were embryos. Link

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You are probably aware of the annual hajj, or pilgrimage, to the city of Mecca, but did you know about Mount Athos, which bars women? Or Sri Pada, the mountaintop that is sacred to four religious groups? Or the cathedral which is supposed to contain the Ark of the Covenant? Check out the mental_floss post "10 Gorgeous Pilgrimage Sites Even Atheists Can Admire!" This picture shows Sri Harmandir Sahib, a Sikh site in Amritsar, India. Link

Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of the coolest lamps and light bulbs around, including this bulb that has lighted electric fireflies inside! Link -via Dump Trumpet

Xavier Enigma’s Next Physics Game. Draw your own shapes and let gravity take its toll. Circles are near impossible, but levers are easy. Link -via Fark

(note: this picture is just a screengrab of my attempt -follow the "link" to get to the game)

In 1983, at age 61, Australian farmer Cliff Young entered the 875-kilometer endurance race from Sydney to Melbourne, the world’s longest and toughest ultra-marathon.

“See, I grew up on a farm where we couldn’t afford horses or four wheel drives, and the whole time I was growing up– until about four years ago when we finally made some money and got a four wheeler– whenever the storms would roll in, I’d have to go out and round up the sheep. We had 2,000 head, and we have 2,000 acres. Sometimes I would have to run those sheep for two or three days. It took a long time, but I’d catch them. I believe I can run this race; it’s only two more days. Five days. I’ve run sheep for three.”

The athletes left Young in the dust -at the beginning. Over five days, Young overtook every single runner to win the race! His secret? He didn’t realize all the other runners were stopping to sleep each day! Young also didn’t realize there was a $10,000 prize, which he immediately gave away to the other runners. Cliff Young became a national sensation, and now almost all the runners of the annual race run straight through without sleeping. Link -via Reddit

Cracked has published The Drunkest Generation: 10 Reasons Your Grandpa Could Drink You Under the Table. Of course, they’re not referring to your grandpa, but the culture that made it seem like he could’ve. It’s a look back at the days when drunkeness was considered not only socially acceptable, but even entertaining! Link

Remember the sustainable gingerbread house contest? Nineteen entrants took the challenge to design and build environmentally-friendly gingerbread houses. You can see them all at Terry*, with links to more pictures and information on each. Link -via The World’s Fair

Nantes, France is hosting an exhibition of mechanical sculptures by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice (official site en français). Each sculpture is also a moving vehicle! Besides this 11-meter tall elephant, see the giant squid, deep-sea fish, and more. Link

Instructables tells you how to design your own cookie cutters! Great for shapes you’d never find in stores, like Pac Man, the Star Trek Communicator Badge, a One-up Mushroom, and Meeple. Or model some after your own interests. Link -via Dump Trumpet

Physicist Dr. Robert Lang took up origami as a hobby (featured previously at Neatorama). Who knew his hobby would lead to breakthroughs in astronomy, heart surgery, and consumer safety? You’ll be surprised at all the ways intricate paper-folding can be applied to modern technology. Damn Interesting has the story. Link

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A group of 9 university students performed these “Olympic Highlights” on the Kasou Taishou(also known as Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s All Japan Costume Grand Prix) special that aired last night on NTV:

Even though we are used to amazing special effects, we can still be impressed with old-fashioned cleverness. From Japan Probe -via Random Good Stuff