1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser.

Push play or go to YouTube. -via Ectoplasmosis

Advances in bionics, transportation, and other technologies have put comic book superheroes a little closer to reality. This collection of videos looks at a few ways we can achieve “super powers”. Link -via Reddit

Herman and Candelaria Zapp drove from Argentina to Alaska in their 1928 Graham Paige Model 610 touring car. The car’s top speed is about 35 mph. The trip took almost three years, covered 43,717 miles, and produced a son. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Mark Malkoff visited all 171 Starbucks locations in Manhattan in ONE DAY. Of course, he made a movie about the entire project. http://www.171starbucks.com/ -via Metafilter

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety.

Pink Tentacle has more pictures. Link -via Bifurcated Rivets

Wheeler "Johnny" Lipes, had neither the formal training, the equipment, nor the urge to become a surgeon.

But when one of his ship mates came down with acute appendicitis 120-feet below the South China Sea, with enemy warships circling above - he had no choice. He had to do what needed to be done or his shipmate would die.

It was the first major surgery ever preformed aboard a submarine. And it was performed by a man who stepped up to the job.

Lipes is pictured with the spoons he used as surgical retractors. Link -via Cynical-C

Can you name all 43 US Presidents? You have ten minutes. I got 33 of 43, without looking any up. The first seven were easy, and I aced the 20th century, but some in between gave me a brain cramp. Link

Carey Huffman designed and chrocheted this cute set of Pacman and Ghosts, and posted the instructions so you can make them yourself!
Link -via Dump Trumpet

This painting went to auction with an estimated value of £300-£500. Two bidders really wanted it, and the final price was £205,000! Art dealers now think it’s an original Titian, dated between 1510 and 1520. If so, the painting could be worth around £5 million. Auctioneer Mark Gilding said:

"Our opinion was it was 18th century, after an early Italian artist. Obviously a couple of people thought differently: two people on the day turned up and battled it out.

"The people bidding on it handle these things day in, day out. On this occasion, as a provincial auctioneer, we bow to their superior knowledge."

Link to auction site. Link to story. -via Arbroath

Worth1000 had a contest to depict The Beatles in a different era from their heyday in the 60s. See the group as a barbershop quartet, 80s hair band, medieval minstrel show, metal group, American Idol contestants, and more! Link -via J-Walk Blog

Davis Lassman took chapters from three of Jane Austen’s books, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion, and sent them to 18 different literary agents and publishers. He changed the titles (although he left some hints) and the characters’ names. Of the 18, one recognized the work (and warned him of plagiarism), one said they were 'a really original read', but the rest either rejected the chapters or never responded. Link -via Reddit

40 videos of Pachelbel's Canon were edited to create this video, which has been viewed almost a million times. Push play or go to YouTube. The individual artists videos are listed here. -via These Thoughts Escape Me

Ring is an alarm clock you wear on your finger! Place the ring on the charging cradle and set the time you want to wake up. Then slip the ring on your fingertip. It will begin vibrating at the proper time. Not only a great idea for the hearing-impaired, but also handy for couples who need to get up at different times. Link -via mental_floss

This film from Amnesty International won the Cannes Lions 2007 Gold Lion Award for Public Service. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Ursi’s Blog

Check out this collection of Olympic posters, from 1896 through 2012! Bonus: click on each poster to go to the Wikipedia entry on the games of that year. Link -via Dump Trumpet