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Borneo Rhino Captured on Video.


There may be as few as a couple dozen Borneo rhinos left in the world, making it one of the world's rarest animal species. The first still photograph of a Borneo rhino was taken only last year. Now, a World Wildlife Foundation project has captured the first video footage of the Borneo rhino. Link -via Arbroath

Underwater Post Offices and Mailboxes.


Yes, there are places you can mail a letter underwater. Gadling lists five of them. Link -via Dump Trumpet

WiigoBot.


What do you get when you combine Legos, robots, and videogames? WiigoBot is a Lego NXT Wii Playing Robot that can bowl a perfect game! Push play or go to YouTube. BattleBricks has more on Wiigobot with pictures and a link to building instructions. Link -via Metafilter

What does this sign mean?


I don’t know, either, but there are some suggestions in the comments at Flickr. Link -via Reddit

ROFLMAO! is the name of the video.


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.


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

Pre-Sliced Bananas.


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

World's Strangest Vehicles.


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

Skeletal Art.


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

Devo Hats.


Rob at Cockeyed.com made these Devo hats for a Guitar Hero party, and posted step-by-step instructions. Link -via Everlasting Blort

US Gun Deaths.


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

Texting Championship.


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

The Eternal Candy Ball.


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

Read Carefully!


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

Beyond Crop Circles.


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

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