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

13-year-old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, won the LG National Texting Championship Saturday in New York. Texting Championship? Yes, 250 contestants battled it out for the title and a $25,000 prize. In this competition, spelling and proper punctation is mandatory -no abbreviations allowed. Pozgar sent the message "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoucious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious" to win.

"It's all about the thumbwork," she said. "It's about balance." She said she owed her success to relaxation and deep breathing.

Link -via Arbroath

It takes a lot of licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, but this takes even more! Artists Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobay created a giant candy the size of a football. They kept licking the candy day after day for about six months, recording their progress on video. You can see the landscape in the background change from winter to summer. This could turn you off candy permanently. Push play or go to YouTube. Found at Swiss Miss -via Grow-A Brain

If you saw these signs on restroom doors, which one would you enter? Read carefully! -via Reddit

If we’ve learned anything from “aliens”, it’s how to market to bored passengers looking out the windows of airplanes. This is from a collection of field art advertising. Link -via Reddit

Food fun for kids! Nippon Ham has a gallery of hot dogs cut into the shapes of flowers and animals, like this little elephant. Click on each picture for instructions, in Japanese, but illustrated. Link -via Web Zen

Australian documentary director Trevor Graham filmed a day in the life of a homeless person in each of six cities: Sydney, New York, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta, and London. The resulting stories are broken into many parts (which you can select individually). You may be surprised at the many ways people can find themselves without a home. http://www.abc.net.au/homeless/ -via Metafilter

A message from the World Wildlife Foundation to China. The text on the balloon reads: “Drive one day less and look how much carbon dioxide monoxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe.” Link -via Dump Trumpet

This looks like it should be in a 50s sci-fi movie about nuclear mutants, but no. It’s a Giant African Snail, which can grow up to 12 inches long! They are illegal in the US, due to their invasive habits. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Say No To Crack