Re-entry from space without a ship is not something to be taken lightly, although someday spacediving might save lives. A 60-mile freefall is possible, but would require a special suit and helmet. Rick Tumlinson, founder of the Space Frontier Foundation, and former NASA flight surgeon Jonathan Clark formed the company Orbital Outfitters to produce such a suit. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/3c082d2daa463110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html -via Metafilter.

This hamster is enjoying his popcorn too much to be bothered. Just plain cute! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath

A full technical explanation on how ketchup works, and how to make a traditional glass bottle give it up. Now, if they can only decide on the proper spelling. http://www.icogitate.com/~ergosum/essays/ketchup/ketchup.htm -via the Presurfer

Your CDs seem like a big load to the little man in this clever display case. In addition to the ”lifting man” case, you can also get a “pushing man” case. http://www.wrapables.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=C53245 -via Dump Trumpet

South African Animal Behaviorist Kevin Richardson is so gentle with wild beasts that he can handle their newborns. He likes lions best of all, and trusts them so much he can spend the night curled up with them. Link -via Arbroath, who has videos of Richardson in action.

The “dramatic prairie dog” that took the internet by storm last week has spawned imitations, remixes, and marketing opportunities. You knew that would happen, but now there is a place to see all of them, at the Dramatic Prairie Dog blog. Link -via the Presurfer

Snowmobiles aren’t restricted to snowy surfaces, apparently. I wonder how a Jet-Ski would work in the snow! Push play or go to YouTube. -via Digg

Scientists say a species of 5-foot tall penguins with huge beaks lived in Peru 36 million years ago. Just one more thing to haunt your nightmares. Link

This kid in Mumbai knows his shpiel in many languages. If you know one of these languages, leave a comment and tell us what he says and how well. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Arbroath

The Army is not the only ones to have urban camouflage. These cats belong to Hanan Levin of Grow-A-Brain, and were featured as guest cat bloggers at Cynical-C last Friday. Link

Carl Mertens Wine comes with its own thermometer to indicate whether the wine is at the proper temperature for serving! And after the wine is gone, it makes a cool bracelet. Link

When the weather is hot, can a combination popsicle and beer be the perfect cooler? The chef at Rustico’s in Washington, DC is selling “hopsicles”, or frozen beer on a stick. http://keyetv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_172143825.html -via Puppies and Flowers

If only this worked as good as it looks! Only £3.99. Link -via Random Good Stuff

I’m not sure what a Teraflop is, but these computers have a lot of them. The Blue Gene/L computer shown can do 360 Teraflops. Link

Update: Commenter Christophe puts this in perspective.

A teraflop measures a computer's ability to do Floating Point Operations Per Second. So 360 Teraflops = 360,000 gigaflops = 360,000,000 megaflops = 360,000,000,000 flops. 360,000,000,000 Floating Point Operations Per Second. That's 360 Billion.

Update 2: Kevin and Adam say its 360 trillion.

Wow!

After almost a week of training a group of dedicated skydivers put together the largest parachute formation ever built. It consists of 81 ... all » skydivers in the formation and several video people flying around. It took place over Lake Wales, Florida USA. just before sunset and has some incredible shots by some incredible video fliers, and a picture-perfect "starburst" break-away.

I would like to see video of how they came together. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Random Good Stuff