American stuntman Robert McDonald built a Viking ship from 15 million recycled popsicle sticks! The ship had a test run today on Netherlands' IJsselmeer lake. McDonald hopes to take the 50-foot ship across the Atlantic. Link -via Fark

The hungry geeks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have constructed some circuit boards out of sweets and posted the instructions for you. None of the components required the use of the Candyfab 4000, which means you can replicate them in your own kitchen. Link

59-year-old Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, married 29-year-old Xia Shujuan in a public wedding ceremony that lasted hours and was witnessed by around 2,000 people. The two were legally married in March, but wanted a traditional Mongolian ceremony. The costs were picked up by at least 15 commercial entities. Link (with lots of photos) -via Arbroath

Photographer Helga Steppan sorted her belongings by color and took pictures. They are part of an exhibit called “Be long a part” in London. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/helga-steppan-be-long-a-part/ -via Dump Trumpet

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash
The Onion News Network reports on why the internet crashed. It would be a bit embarassing to be responsible for something like this, wouldn’t it? Push play or go to The Onion. -via Grow-A-Brain

Former Sony technician Kouzi Ichigaya has designed an air-conditioned shirt! This shirt has two small fans at waist level to blow air around the inside. Provide the power by connecting to a USB port, car cigarette lighter, or a battery pack. Link For sale here. -via the Presurfer

Cecilia Burman has prosopagnosia, commonly known as “face-blindness.” She wrote Face Blindness and Stones to illustrate what this condition is like, comparing her difficulty in facial recognition to the way a normal person would have trouble telling one stone from another, and some of the coping mechanisms she uses. http://www.prosopagnosia.com/main/stones/index.asp -via Reddit

A report from Ankara, Turkey. No, it wasn’t a woman driver looking for a parking place. The car apparently went off a bridge overhead and landed on the balcony. Push play or go to Live Leak. -via Arbroath

75-year-old Sigbritt Löthberg of Sweden has the world’s fastest internet connection. She can receive information at 40 gigabytes per second, allowing her to receive 1500 high-definition TV signals at once, and download an entire DVD in two seconds. Löthberg never had a computer before now. She was the recipient of the setup because her son is Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg.

"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.

"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.

They wanted to prove that fiber technology makes such connections commercially viable.

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/ -via Reddit

Jim Rota took the standard periodic table of the elements and broke it into 12 columns to make it easier to understand.

There are several unique structural things about the Rota Period that make it easy to understand and use:

1. It uses 12 columns (groups).
2. The 5+, 6+, 7+, and 8+ elements are not classified into groups V, VI, VII and VIII (or IUPAC 5, 6, 7, 8). This gives these elements their own unique position in the periodic table.
3. It uses the horizontal and vertical of the page to displace elements. This allows ALL elements to have a unique position (if/when necessary).
4. It is based upon showing valences, not orbitals.

Which makes it easier to understand if you know more about chemistry than I do. He sent this in response to my humor post about chemistry at Miss Cellania, but I knew it would find a wider audience here. Link -Thanks, Jim!

A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty. I tried to picture it, and I couldn't. So I put together this page - and I still can't picture it.

The electron in this model is only one pixel. You’ll have to scroll to the right to see it. Link -via Dump Trumpet

London artist Jordi Canudas creates odd and thought-provoking art installations such as lamps that give more (or less) light over time, sofas that bend from both sides, and the shared hat shown. Link -via the Presurfer

Inventor Nikola Tesla had a dream: to build a tower to harness the electricity of the atmosphere, control the weather, and conduct long-distance wireless communications. Construction of the 187-foot-tall Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York was started in 1901, with an investment by J.P. Morgan, but the project was never completed. 20th century technology may have been quite different if Tesla's dream hadn't run into so many financial problems. Read the entire story at Damn Interesting. Link

The Barbarian Group is the group of designers responsible for Burger King’s Subservient Chicken marketing campaign. Now they have created The McLeod Mirror Series.

McLeod Mirror Series 1: See Yourself in Others are not actually made of mirrored glass, but an LCD screen housed in a wooden case with a web cam attached to the top. The camera records the viewer and creates a collage of the person’s image along with images of everyone else who has stood before the mirror. The image allows the viewer to “see themselves reflected in others” in a new way. The mirrors bring a timeless bathroom product into the digital age, creating a twist on the staple that is more interesting and dynamic than the original, while perhaps pointlessly complex. The images are not recorded or archived, so the digital artwork created on the spot will never be seen again.

Only 100 mirrors have been produced. You can get one for $6,000.00. Link to video (scroll to the right). http://menu.mcleodresidence.com/products/mcleod-mirror-series-1 to description. -via Shiny Shiny

Absolutely Bananas has "5 reasons why EVERYONE should know how to Photoshop their head onto someone else's body." Reason number four:

4. Because you wouldn't want your children to know THE TRUTH about how you spent your younger years (knitting and sipping tea? Come ON!) With Photoshop, your history is yours for the making! Goodbye boring momma, hello fab new me!

Includes a link to a Photoshop tutorial. Link -via Look at This