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Bizarre Birthday Cakes! Posted: 3 months ago by KerOBeroS32
Remember when your mom got you a Fudgie the Whale cake for your birthday and you almost died of delight?

Yeah, neither do I...
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 344 [+].

Excuse me, I've just finished reading................. by .................... What should I read next? Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Type in the name of the book you've just finished, and The Book Seer will provide recommendations for your next read.
Comments: 12 Score: [-] 442 [+].

Crappy Taxidermy Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Self explanatory.
Comments: 6 Score: [-] 323 [+].

Steampunk Tableware Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
If you like steam-punk as much as I do you will enjoy this gallery.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 325 [+].

Did Shakespeare Puff on "Noted Weed"? Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A study of several 17th-century smoking pipes, including a number found in the garden of Shakespeare's home in England, has revealed traces of cannabis, according to South African scientists.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 210 [+].

Classic Photography recreated using Legos Posted: 4 months ago by cactushair
Famous historic scenes, romantic pictures, movie scenes, glorious moments in human history captured on pictures and now, recreated using legos.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 266 [+].

Mastering iron scraps to Mammoth Scraptures Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Ilyas Ahmed, the artist who creates art from discarded nuts, bolts, springs, vehicle spare parts and domestic waste is giving the final touches to the arrangement before his first ever solo show in Bangalore Chitrakala Parishat.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 279 [+].

The Coming Annie Leibovitz Fire Sale Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
Annie Leibovitz, perhaps the highest-paid celebrity photographer in the world, is profoundly broke. She hocked every photograph she's ever produced and now the high-end pawnshop that gave her $24 million has filed suit to force her to sell it all.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 232 [+].

Are you into skulls? Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
This blog's for you.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 220 [+].

Incredible 6yr Old Painter Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
A street scene from the paintbrush of a child usually involves triangle-topped boxes for houses. And often an unnaturally large dog.

But Kieron Williamson's attempts are so beautifully rendered that artists ten times his age will be filled with envy.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 536 [+].

What to do With Left Over Toilet Paper Rolls? Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
JUNIOR JACQUET of France has an answer that works for him. He recycles and reuses these cardboard rolls into a legion of odd characters with contorted faces.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 542 [+].

Nerdy knitting Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
An excellent use of the long winter evenings -
huge showcase of knitted science fiction and
comic characters plus a preposterous amount of
cuddly zombies.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 332 [+].

Children traumatised by 'War of Worlds' abduction of teacher Posted: 4 months ago by chez
The event was designed to "develop youngsters writing skills" and fire their imagination - but some children were left traumatised by the show.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 477 [+].

The 80s: A Decade of Disturbing Films for Children Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
If you were born in the late 70s or early 80s, you too have most likely visited the psychiatrist to try and erase the painfully disturbing memories of movies from the 80s. Just about every film made from 1980 to 1990 had the same underlying theme: sci-fi fantasy crap mixed with children in danger, bad singing, and unexplained and unnecessary horrible situations and characters.
Comments: 15 Score: [-] 375 [+].

Belgian museum exposes celebrity underpants Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
It is a little known fact that Belgium's finance minister wears blue and white striped boxer shorts and the Brussels underpants museum has a pair to prove it.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 156 [+].

Alien Statues Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 250 [+].

Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Flowers were electrified with 80,000 volts of power to produce dazzling images of the natural world.

See picture gallery
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 255 [+].

Bach’s Forgotten Horn Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
In 1737-8, Johann Sebastian Bach composed and performed a cantata. Among the instruments called for are “two Litui.” No one has played or heard the instrument in modern times; there aren’t even illustrations of one.
Musicians at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB), had heard of a computer program to help in the design of modern brass instruments. The SCB provided scientists with design requirements, and they built two.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 294 [+].

Pez sues museum over giant dispenser Posted: 5 months ago by DerAlt
The company that makes Pez candy is suing a California museum, seeking to have a giant Pez dispenser created by the owners destroyed.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 582 [+].

Kelburn Castle Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
This is the Kelburn Castle in Scotland, close to a wonderfully-named Fairie village (Fairlie, actually) - see here - painted over by Brazillian street artists from Sao Paolo Nina and Nunca Os Gemeos (completed in June 2007)
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 183 [+].

Ceiling Porn Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
i'm a big fan of ceilings and it never fails to amaze me how drastically they can change the appearance and atmosphere of a space yet at the same time be completely ignored by most of the room's occupants.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 375 [+].

The Wind Knitting Machine Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
With the power of the wind, a knitting machine knits from the outside towards the inside of the building. The knitted material is harvested from time to time and rounded-off in individually packaged scarves. Each scarf has its own label which tells you in how much time it has been knitted and on which date.
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 396 [+].

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
Where tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.

*I have a lot of this stuff*
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 469 [+].

Faerie Houses Posted: 5 months ago by meggysue
Fully furnished, includes running water and solar lighting, great neighborhood, charming.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 296 [+].

How To Photograph Fireworks Displays Posted: 5 months ago by cb__
From, imo, the absolute best photography site around.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 388 [+].


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