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Strangest Invertebrate Ever

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http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTL9663
Based on the classic movie!  Includes real fake birds!  High-quality head looks scared and has awesome hair!
Thanks to beetlewing

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/amelia525/303048913/in/photostream/
by *amelia*

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"The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps every day since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday it hit the number one overall position with over 13,000 downloads." http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-nearly-10000-a-day/

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http://etchartist.com

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"On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through. "They're real," says Sibeck."  More on flux transfer events or 'FTE's: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm

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"The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens -- a 17-in. primary and a 10.6-in. secondary screen and weighs 11 pounds." http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9124101&intsrc=hm_list

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http://io9.com/5113006/the-dalek-christmas-tree-will-exterminate-your-holiday

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http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/detail.php?y=2008&t=127

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"Wouldn't it be great to be able to remember everything? To see all our most important moments, all the priceless encounters, adventures and triumphs? What if memory never faded, but instead could be retrieved at any time, as reliably as films in a video store? In addition to good memories, every angry word, every mistake, every disappointment, every shock and every moment of pain goes unforgotten. Time heals no wounds for Jill Price. "I don't look back at the past with any distance. It's more like experiencing everything over and over again, and those memories trigger exactly the same emotions in me. It's like an endless, chaotic film that can completely overpower me. And there's no stop button."" http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,591972,00.html

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http://afrojacks.com/pics/4-pics/1848-afrojacks-holiday-gift-suggestion-the-fetus-cookie-cutter

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Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language. One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3743289/Zzz-mail-What-happens-when-sleepwalkers-go-online.html

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Reverse Shadow Theatre from gabor papp on Vimeo.
Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kickinthehead/3081904301/in/set-72157607227982802/

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http://ingesidee.de/resourceviewer.php?pgid=63

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"Research subjects fitted with goggles that stream video from cameras strapped to another person (or mannequin) can experience that body as their own, neuroscientists say. And not just in a fluffy, philosophical way: the subjects experienced measurable physiological changes..."  "In the first experiment, the research subject put on the augmented reality glasses and was told to look down. At the same time, video was beamed into the glasses' displays from a camera attached to the head of a mannequin. In short, the study participant was looking in the direction of his or her own stomach, but actually seeing the stomach of the mannequin. At that moment, the person conducting the experiment would rub both the stomach of the mannequin and of the research subject. Subjects reported that they felt as if they were feeling the touch on the mannequin. After a minute of this touching, the researchers threatened the abdomen of the mannequin with a knife while administering a common physiological stress test. The test measured a jump in the physiological stress the subject's were undergoing, which the researchers said implied that they had taken psychological ownership of the mannequin."

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/vr-goggles-and.html

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From a program about the strongest man in Egypt and his wives, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on August 7, 2007.

Reporter: This is the "Incredible Hulk" or the Samson of our times. He got married 28 times and has fathered 35 sons and daughters. The eldest, Sameh, is 24 years old, while the youngest, Sayyed, is only three. Medical tests have proven that his strength equals 260 horsepower. He can bend a metal coin with his eye socket or his tongue. Then he breaks it in two with his bare hands. Sayyed Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah is a gifted man.

Allah has bestowed upon him great strength, but he uses it only to do good. This is a man on whom Allah has bestowed the strength of 30,000 men, or 260 horsepower. Allah has also blessed him with a faithful and humble heart, as well as good values and self-restraint.

(Courtesy of MEMRI TV)

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