Not a particularly long train, but a very long photograph of a train, by Branislav Kropilak. This is only a small portion. You’ll have to scroll right at Kropilak’s site to see it all. http://www.kropilak.com/files/trains.01.php -via Grow-A-Brain
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Not a particularly long train, but a very long photograph of a train, by Branislav Kropilak. This is only a small portion. You’ll have to scroll right at Kropilak’s site to see it all. http://www.kropilak.com/files/trains.01.php -via Grow-A-Brain
It was a memorable public marriage proposal with the help of penguins for a zookeeper in North Wales.
Vicki Small, 23, said she was speechless when Kevin Venton, 27, went on bended knee and asked her to marry him at the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
Fluffy the penguin then walked on with a white gold and diamond ring in front of a big crowd at Colwyn Bay, Conwy.
Miss Small was so astonished she did not say yes straightaway - but she soon did and the pair will marry next June.
Small hand-reared Fluffy the penguin in her work at the zoo. The afternoon penguin parade had a crowd of about 60 observers, who cheered the surprise proposal. Link -via Metafilter
For those of you who enjoyed phone salesman/opera singer Paul Potts' audition for Britain's Got Talent (but don't have access to ITV 1), here's his performance in the semi-finals last night. The voting is now open to the public. See Paulâ's MySpace page, too. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to the show's website.
An Illustrated History of Trepanation traces the practice of making holes in people’s heads from prehistory to some quirky recent stories.
Link -via the Presurfer
The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull. It has been performed since prehistoric times: the oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks and the early Mesoamerican civilizations. The procedure is still performed today, for both medical and non-medical reasons.
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Tim Noble and Sue Webster create art with a twist. These sculptures are designed to throw shadows of something completely different from what they appear to be! http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/freeze-frame-screen-the-shadow-hot-heads-under-silent-wigs/ -via Reddit
If you like to see things blown to pieces safely, Cynical-C has nine videos of hotel implosions in Las Vegas. Nine? Yes, pretty soon you won’t recognize the old city at all. Link
Eight classic thought experiments explained simply. If you’ve heard the terms Schrödinger's cat, Borel's monkeys, or Maxwell's demon, but you didn’t quite understand them, Wired has the short course. Link
Now you can have your very own Marie Antionette action figure. Her head comes off! Link -via the Presurfer
A spaceship battles a giant robot dinosaur inside a volcano in this CGI animation by Marco Spitoni, who also did C.O.D.E Guardian. Push play or go to YouTube. -via PAgent’s Video Picks
The Detroit Free Press has published a multimedia tribute to Aretha Franklin’s recording of "Respect," which was the number one song 40 years ago. It’s a fascinating story. Link -via Metafilter
The Box Doodle Project challenges you to make something out of a box. The object is to make the most out of the least material. The site includes a box doodle tool, so you can doodle a box online! Link -via Everlasting Blort
Music store proprietor Steve Baker sent a guitar to his stepson in Iraq in 2004. His stepson’s friend wanted one, too, so he sent another. When more requests came in, Operation Happy Note was born. As of now, Baker and his wife have sent over 300 musical instruments to soldiers overseas. Link -via Exploding Aardvark
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