The results of the contest Alex posted about yesterday are up now at Miss Cellania. Two stressed moms won “Living the Dream” t-shirts, and eight funny parenting stories are posted for your entertainment. Thanks for a great response! Link

The Sun in Motion is a collection of extreme closeup videos of the sun. The iMax-formatted videos are bigger than your screen! Link -via Dump Trumpet

YouTube is testing a new version of its online video player, with new features that allow you to skip through, search related videos, and get the codes without stopping the video or clicking through to the YouTube site. Google Operating System has screenshots and an example of the new player. Link -via Look at This

This may look like a paint-by-number kit, but it’s a photograph. Jialiang Gao shot this picture of a terraced planting area in Yunnan province, China. Link -via J-Walk Blog

Sebastian Dick said this LEGO chaingun was the biggest project he’s ever tried. It has eight barrels and a 64-shot capacity.

The motor driven barrels start winding up to speed at the flick of a switch on the handle. Pulling the trigger unleashes a stream of rubber bands, deluging the target. The fire rate is high enough that at least half a dozen bands are in the air at any one time – the gun appears to fire a single very long chain of them. It’s as much like using a hose pipe as firing a rubber band gun. It also sounds fantastic because each mechanism makes a distinct click as it discharges a rubber band.

Push play or go to YouTube. Link -via Cynical-C

Fifteen Reasons Why Mister Rogers was the Best Neighbor Ever lays out a pretty convincing case. For example:

Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!

I never watched the show, since I was in school, but now wish I’d known him. Link

The University of Tokyo LEGO Club has completed a LEGO replica of the campus’ clock tower. Here’s an image of the real building. Link (in Japanese) -via The Brothers Brick

* Buy good quality, thick-sliced bacon.
* Prepare the brown sugar and cayenne pepper topping.
* Arrange bacon on a broiler pan.
* Cook for 20 minutes at 300-350°F.
* Turn bacon, apply topping, and cook another 20-30 minutes or until done.

Link -via J-Walk Blog

After a leopard in the bed and a cheetah in the car, wouldn’t you rather be lion in the bathtub? This image of a circus lion getting a wash was found at Wisconsin History. Link

Sleeping in your own bed in Israel, the last thing you might expect is for a leopard to jump in with you!

Clad only in his night clothes, Arthur Du Mosch lunged at the big cat and grabbed its neck, pinning it down for 20 minutes until help arrived.

"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," the 49-year-old said. "I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

Link -via Arbroath

An ad for the Czech automobile Å koda Fabia {wiki} features the car made of cake! Militant Platypus has the recipe and the video. http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/3726

Swim at Your Own Risk is a blog detailing shark attacks, attacks by other marine animals, and generally all the awful things that might happen to you at the beach. Although the odds of attack for each beachgoer are very low (you’d more likely be killed by lightning), this site could be useful for persuading your family to go camping in the mountains. http://www.swimatyourownrisk.com/ -via Grow-A-Brain

From Wikipedia:

The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Empire that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?," the large circle is labelled "Yes," the smaller "No."

Link -via Reddit

Part of the Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles last week was The Vader Project. DKE Toys distributed Darth Vader helmets to 66 participating artists to embellish in their unique styles. http://www.starwars.com/community/event/celebration/news20070516.html to story. Link to gallery of helmets. -via The Official Star Wars Blog

Flickr user PaperRelic creates collages of ephemera, which you can see in this collection.

At the beginning of January 2005 my love for paper evolved into a love for collage. This photoset is a place I post some of my work - some are cut x paste, others digital... but all are made with mostly vintage and antique paper.

Link -via Everlasting Blort