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The Wrong Door is a new sketch show set in a parallel universe where the special effects you see in the movies and on TV are part of everyday life. Coming soon to BBC Three.

I'm glad they are making some of the sketches available on YouTube for those of us who cannot get BBC. -via Everlasting Blort

15-year-old Tom Lemm underwent surgery to remove his arm and shoulder due to a tumor. Surgeons then used bone and tissue from the amputated elbow to construct a new shoulder!

Professor Kay told the BBC: "The most awful thing for an upper limb reconstructive surgeon to do is to remove an arm - it's a dreadful thing to do.

"But by using the bits that would be discarded, you can pluck a little bit of comfort."

He said Tom's new shoulder will be able to support an artificial limb. "This will be a tremendous advantage."

Tom has battled cancer for three years. He hopes the success of his surgery will give hope to others. A hospital spokesman said this surgery was first performed in Japan, but Lemm's case was a first for Europe. Link -via Arbroath

In the game Hexium Connect, you are given a set of hexagons with colored links on one or more sides of each. You rearrange them so that all colored connections are linked to each other properly. It starts easy, but quickly becomes challenging! Link -via Dump Trumpet

An 11-month-old baby in Colombia weighs over 61 pounds! The child can no longer wear his big brother's clothing. His mother, Milena Orosco de Agudelo, said the boy was born at a normal size and began growing rapidly at two months of age. Medical tests indicate he has an endocrine disorder, but further tests are needed to pinpoint the cause. Link (with video) -via Fark

A purple frog with a pig nose, a seal with an inflatable face, and penguin with yellow eyes! They sound like tall tales, but they are just some of the unusual endangered species described at WebEcoist. Link -via the Presurfer

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A clip of some rare and extremely creepy TV programming from Germany in the 1930s. For more, see an hour-length documentary on the subject, Television Under the Swastika. http://smashingtelly.com/2008/07/14/television-under-the-swastika/ -via Metafilter

If you don't, it's OK, because this face does not exist. It's an age-enhanced childhood picture showing what Michael Jackson would look like now if he'd never had cosmetic surgery or other physical alterations. The picture was made to accompany a Daily Mail article on Jackson as he turns 50 years old today. Link -via mental_floss

People often say "x is worth its weight in gold", but what does that really mean? Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories takes a look at the price per pound of things you'd never think of measuring or comparing, like coins and paper money, printer ink, peacock feathers, human blood, the LZR Racer swimsuit, and a Maine Coon cat, as well as gold itself. Link

The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon is not the only television marathon happening this Labor Day Weekend. Interesting Pile has a list of the marathons various television networks will be running. Take your pick! I'm not familiar with all of them, but it seems the oldest is Star Trek: The Next Generation. Link (via Fark)

I collect antique cobalt glass, and I would love to have this old poison bottle! It's part of the The Antique Poison Bottle Hall of Fame, where you'll find all kinds of poison bottles submitted by owners from all over. Link -via Everlasting Blort

Cats with wings? The pictures are making the rounds of the internet, but it's not the first time. Link to pictures. Link to the explanation.

During the Cold War, the Unites States and the Soviet Union raced to see who would reach the moon first. But they also competed going the other way -drilling down through the earth. Both countries wanted to bore all the way through the Earth's crust to reach the mantle. The Soviets went down seven miles, and dug the earth's deepest hole.

At the Kola Institute, pictured, the Russians drilled for more than 15 years to reach a crust depth of 40,226 feet, a record that's never been broken. But however successful the mission was as an exploration, the geological findings from the site remain murky and obscured by the way they emanated out of the fading Soviet scientific machine.

Stanford geologist and drilling expert, Mark Zoback, said that the Kola borehole was "an anomaly" even within the rather grandiose field of superdeep drilling projects.

Read how they did it at Wired. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/08/gallery_kola_borehole

Martha Stewart has put her name on an astounding array of products, from the truly mundane to the totally inexplicable.

Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss asks you to guess which products can be found and purchased at Martha Stewart's website. No fair peeking! I only guessed four out of ten, because I didn't peek! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17860

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Some stone monuments last forever. Sometimes a video lasts longer. -via Arbroath

Smashing Magazine has a collection of charming pictures showing how a motion blur effect can add a sense of speed to photographs. Link -via the Presurfer