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A masterful mashup! -Thanks, Justin!

Street artist Banksy has a show in a Manhattan storefront he named The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, located at 89 Seventh Avenue South.

Banksy designed a pet shop that includes fish sticks swimming in a fish tank, a chimpanzee watching chimp porn, a fur coat playing a cat, and hot dog hamsters. One of our favorites has to be the Chicken McNuggets sipping barbeque sauce (image via wooster collective). With the use of animatronics Banksy is able to take his artform to a whole new level.

The show is open through October 31st. Link -Thanks, Jayne Howley!

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Yes, we all like progress bars! I thought the idea of a progress bar for a road trip was fantastic, until I remembered that a road map will do that. A progress bar for a boring conversation would be extremely useful. -Thanks, Kirby Ferguson!

Once upon a time, tobacco advertisers sought to counterbalance growing concerns about smoking with advice from medical experts, or models dressed as medical experts. See more ads at Weird News Files. http://weirdnewsfiles.com/weird-photos/weird-design/history-suggests-dont-take-doctors-advice/ -Thanks, Sarah Polan!

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A few weeks back you posted about the London Gorilla run. I work on behalf of the Gorilla Organization and wanted to thank you for sharing it on your blog, and to let you know we now have a post-run video now up on YouTube ... with scenes of the run and interviews with our Gorilla runners!

-Thanks, Jez!

The Aquada is an amphibious vehicle that converts from car to boat in just 12 seconds!

This radical new breed of vehicle has been precision engineered to the most exacting standards. It has undergone an extensive safety testing programme and complies with appropriate marine and road safety regulations.

Entry to the water is via beach, boat ramp, slipway or directly from the water's edge. Once afloat, the transition from road vehicle to High Speed Amphibian (HSA) is effortlessly achieved.

Simply press a button and drive into the water. The wheels automatically rise and as you press the accelerator nearly a tonne of thrust pushes the Aquada onto the plane. The whole process takes less than 12 seconds. The Aquada can plane at over 30mph.

Link -via Been Seen -Thanks, Megan!

Have you ever wondered what became of the people who found fame and maybe even fortune on the internet? Some became sensations through no effort of their own. Some faded into obscurity and some embraced their notoriety. Find out what Judson Laipply (The Evolution of Dance), Gary Brolsma (Numa Numa), Randy Constan (Peter Pan), Jay Maynard (Tron Guy), and others are doing today. Link -Thanks, Geeks Are Sexy!

Batteries and LEDs make a Jack-o-Lantern easier to deal with compared to candles. Next innovation; make your pumpkin turn itself on and off! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for equipping yours with photosensitive lights. Link

YouTube comments are the butt of many jokes; read a few and you'll know why. Randall Munroe created an XKCD comic in which a character invents a virus that reads YouTube comments back to the commenters before they post. Read the entire strip here. Now YouTube has installed an "audio preview" button that reads a comment aloud before its posted!

Whether “audio preview” will make any difference to someone whose entire comment reads “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” (actual comment from a featured video) is to be seen. I’m guessing most commenters will skip right past it in an effort to get their “first!” comments in there.

The placement of the button is interesting. It’s exactly where the post message button used to be, meaning quick commenters will discover it only when they accidentally click the new button. Hopefully they’ll do this with their speakers up at work.

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/YouTube_Commenters_Hear_Their_Own_Gibberish

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This is slow-motion video of fungus releasing spores. The rate of the release is the highest acceleration found in nature. The video accompanies a study by a team from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. Link -via the Presurfer

New experimental technology comes to aid of the disabled in many forms that will knock your socks off! Mobility Now looks at ten mobility robots.

A mobility robot is a robot that is designed to help handicapped and disabled people move around. It might have wheels, but most often it will have legs so it can climb stairs and uneven ground. It might also take the form of a mobility suit, which is a kind of robot that surrounds the shape of your body, arms and legs.

Most of these innovations are from Japan, the robotics capital of the world, where a growing elderly population creates a huge market for such devices. http://www.mobilitynow.co.uk/top-10-amazing-mobility-robots-for-the-handicapped-and-disabled/ -Thanks, Jesper!

In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, try to remember when ten featured bands or musical groups released their debut albums. Was it in the 60s or the 70s? I am ashamed to say I only scored 90%, considering I was a radio disc jockey for 24 years. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19064

A new Lego tower at Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record by standing 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) tall. It was built over four days and contains almost 460,000 bricks!

The tower included 121 plates designed and built by 3,000 kids using 2 x 4 Lego bricks. The kids participated in the building process to celebrate 100 Years of the Friends of Children festival in Austria. The previous Guinness World Record was set at 96.13-feet (29.3 meters), last May in Legoland Windsor.

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Previously at Neatorama: Earlier world record tower and the 10 Neatest LEGO Facts and Links.

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Animator and illustrator Mark Gervais created this window display for Halloween in 2007. If I saw something like this in my neighborhood, I'd probably faint, then I would watch it over and over! You can buy this display on DVD for your haunted house. Link -via Ursi's Blog

Being famous has its drawbacks. One is the possibility of stalkers. Popcrunch has compiled a list of 15 stories about celebrity stalkers, some that even changed history. Richard Gere, Halle Berry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anna Kournikova, all became the victims of unbalanced people who wouldn't take no for an answer. Pictured is John Hinckley, who became obsessed with Jodie Foster.

He moved near her when she went to Yale University and slipped poems and messages under her door but after that didn’t work decided on a plot to assassinate the president to get her attention. Hinckley went for Jimmy Carter first but got arrested and in 1981 fired 6 shots at the newly elected Ronald Reagan, hitting him with one that ricocheted of the limo.

Link -via Gorilla Mask