Sleep Zodiac

The idea is that your sleeping position indicates your personality. What do you all think?

Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 19, 2012 - Comments (5)
Category: Sleep and Dreams

Orpheus’ Pony

Orpheus´ Pony from Michael Fragstein on Vimeo.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 19, 2012 - Comments (3)
Category: Surrealism, Cartoons

An Icicle That Looks Like A Bird

It must have been a slow news day when this photo ran in papers back in 1959. The icicle that looks like a bird was found outside a Detroit home.

Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 19, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Nature, Weather, 1950s

From Thin Air

Could it really be true? Fuel from air!

Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 18, 2012 - Comments (15)
Category: Science

Gnesa

Being touted as the newest "worst music video ever." Hoax, or genuine ineptitude? Your thoughts solicited!

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 18, 2012 - Comments (15)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults

AK-47 Art

A number of interesting looks for the AK.

Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 18, 2012 - Comments (7)
Category: Guns

Cold Wind Causing Facial Paralysis

A search on Google Scholar reveals that common causes of facial paralysis include Herpes simplex virus, lyme disease, Bell's palsy, and Ramsay Hunt syndrome. But in Shanghai, doctors are reporting numerous cases of facial paralysis caused by the cold autumn wind. Fatigue is also a contributing factor. A Shanghai doctor cautions that, "Elderly people, new mothers, children with weak immunity, and those exposed to cold wind after drinking are the most likely to suffer facial paralysis."

It's also reported that the "majority of the patients are male between 20 and 50 years of age." (I'm guessing they're the ones being exposed to the cold wind after drinking.) They're coming into hospitals complaining of sudden paralysis on one side of the face. A little bit of acupuncture and massage, and they're set right. [hillpost.in]

Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 18, 2012 - Comments (8)
Category: Health, Medicine, Weather

Most Useful Tool Ever—But Which?

I know December 1965 is a long time ago. But this mystery propounded in that month's issue of Popular Science remains unsolved.

Which item is the best? The Poprivet Gun, or the Dual Heat Soldering Gun?

Please state your reasoning with your vote.

Original ad here. (Scroll down several pages for second one.)

Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 18, 2012 - Comments (13)
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Tools, 1960s

Raising Your Own Elephant

Jenny Webb is raising an orphaned elephant. She says it's like raising kids (a 220 pound kid), who is bottle-fed 6 gallons of coconut formula a day.



The elephant's mother was likely the victim of poachers.

Here's Jenny and Moses.



And the website of Jenny's new Jumbo Foundation -- dedicated to raising orphaned animals.

http://www.jumbofoundation.com/

Posted By: gdanea - Wed Oct 17, 2012 - Comments (5)
Category: Animals

X Rated Dinner Show

A couple had sex on a table in a restaurant's patio in front of other patrons, including children. They refused to stop at the request of management and the man also refused to pay the $101 tab. He was arrested for the nonpayment, but neither one was charged for the obscene dinner theater as no one present was willing to make a statement about it.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 17, 2012 - Comments (15)
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