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Don't you hate it when the guys are trying to replace the water line and this kind of discovery slows up the project?

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I hope the plumbing guys got overtime!!

Posted By: gdanea - Fri Nov 11, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Death

Bone Houses

A perfect weird book for Halloween, judging from the pages shown here!

Anyone in LA might be interested in this signing:

Paul Koudounaris signs and discusses his book, The Empire of Death
Thursday, October 27, 7 p.m.

The Brand Library
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, CA 91201-1209
(818) 548-2051

Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 25, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Body, Customs, Death, Religion, Books

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Steve Jobs passed away earlier today. This may not seem like the kind of thing to post on Weird Universe, but consider what kind of place this world would be without him. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple II, the first home computer many would use, and thanks to this and other innovations like the graphical operating system, the internet friendly iMac, and the always connected iPhone, the world is now fully connected, allowing anyone instant access to the kinds of weird things we here at Weird Universe love. Sure, he didn't create the internet all by himself, but if it weren't for some of the innovations his company pioneered, the world might have turned out to be a much more normal (and boring) place than it is today.

Posted By: Salamander Sam - Wed Oct 05, 2011 - Comments (30)
Category: Death, Obituaries, Technology, Computers, Internet

Embalmer Merit Badge

Well, it doesn't actually come from the Boy Scouts, but it's similar. Purchase yours here.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 27, 2011 - Comments (5)
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Body Modifications, Death

Delightful Stories

Apparently, our ancestors operated under a different meaning of the word "delightful" than we do today.

Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 07, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Death, Religion, Books, Nineteenth Century

Paper Doll

Paper Doll 《紙紮》 from Bernadette Choy on Vimeo.

No English translation of the dialogue, but that just makes it all the weirder.

The website "explains" thus: "An animation film about CHUNG's afterlife journey, in search of his cause of death. Chung look back his lifetime, and travel across the 'middle-land'. In the meantime, he made friends with the Paperdolls (paper work Chinese offering figures ). This is a relaxing and humorous animation that introduces the Chinese dead's world."

Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 09, 2011 - Comments (2)
Category: Death, Religion, Video, Asia, Fictional Monsters

About Fallout

Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 05, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Death, Destruction, PSA’s, Technology, War, Weapons, 1950s

Solar Death Ray

Now that is a science project!

Read more here.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 31, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Death, Destruction, Education, Hobbies and DIY, Science, Experiments, Technology, Teenagers

Weird Shorts – 4

Talk about a mammoth appetite, when most of the world’s large mammals went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago, the vast majority of the vanished species were herbivores. This of course meant that they were no longer around to eat the plants they otherwise would have, and - according to Christophers Doughty and Field from Oxford and Stanford Universities respectively – this freed up an extra 1.4 trillion kilos of food, roughly 2.5% of the net product of all Earth’s dry land. However, the researchers add, this excess had been ‘used up’ by burgeoning human numbers by around 1700 and today we consume six times as much as the Pleistocene critters ever did while simultaneously driving down land productivity by 10% (Nature)(PDF).

That’s not to say that our massive consumption doesn’t have it’s upside, As Vangelis Kapatos of Manhattan discovered when he attempted suicide by jumping from his ninth floor flat, only to survive when his fall was broken by a pile of uncollected garbage. Mr. Kapatos’ timing, from his perspective, couldn’t have been worse, the unusually large garbage pile was due to collections being suspended because of snow. They were due to resume the day after his impromptu dumpster dive (Today Online).

Mind you, we’re not the only animals prone to excess. After finding the bodies of dozens of starlings near the city of Constanta in Romania, locals were concerned that the cause might be bird flu, instead post-mortems of the birds have revealed that they in fact died of alcohol poisoning, having ‘drunk’ themselves to death on the discarded leftovers of the local winemaking industry. A least they died happy (BBC News).

Better than dying happy, though, is living happy, and the secret of that, says the UK’s Office for National Statistics, is having a job. But it’s not the pay but the job security that counts, say the government statisticians, which ironically are facing staff cuts themselves due to the economic downturn. Other key happiness factors, according to the preliminary report, are good personal health and a decent family life. What will we do without these people (Telegraph)?



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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Jan 13, 2011 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Babies, Crime, Death, Human Marvels, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Religion, Sexuality, Weird Names, Body Fluids, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Dr Kill and Mr Chance

Film "Rockn'Toll", "Béton désarmé" from Fabrice Mathieu on Vimeo.

This is for all of us who can't wait any longer for the ROGER RABBIT sequel.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 18, 2010 - Comments (7)
Category: Death, Humor, Cartoons