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A Tortoise Chasing a Tomato: Now I want a tortoise. I'd feed it so many tomatoes that it would be too fat for its shell (thanks, sephir07h).

The killer tortoise: When my obese tortoise grew faster and nervier, he'd move onto bigger prey (thanks, fourcorners).

Hens change sex behaviour to outfox males: Chickens experience sexual harassment in the workplace (thanks, f00dave).

If randomized clinical trials don't show that your woo works, try anthropology!: "A common refrain among practitioners and advocates of alternative medicine is that the reason randomized clinical trials frequently fail to find any objective evidence of clinical efficacy for their favorite woo is because, in essence, science is not the right tool to evaluate whether it works" (thanks, tdj).

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?": "This ten minute clip is drawn from the famous 1950s game show, and it's quite surreal."

Care For Some Hot Donkey Love?: "The Festival del Burro (Donkey Festival) in San Antero, Colombia, if you want to be brutally frank about it, is all about mankind’s passionate love for very sexually attractive donkeys." More here.

War movie trailer released! Statham vs. Li!: That's Jason Statham vs. Jet Li. The plot is sure to be abominable, but the fight scenes will be worth the popcorn (thanks, gha5t).

Don't Eat Your Poopies: "Warning: This book may not be appropriate for people over the age of 8. It includes startling real life images of things normally only found in your bathroom, as well as some uninhibited and frank potty talk."

"The things we do for beauty": When body modification goes wrong.

Top Ten Weird Anomalies in Medicine: As opposed to the top ten typical anomalies? Hmm (thanks, f00dave).

Wearable Gardening Stool: A strap-on for green thumbs (thanks, snowy_kathryn).

Contortionists: The text cuts are terrible, but check out back-breaking things these women can do, and all with a smile on their face.

Solid Gold Dancers count down the top ten: The Solid Gold Dancers wear unfortunate clothes and dance their asses off to hits from 1985.

Codex Seraphinianus: A whimsical and evocative journey. I recommend the slide show.

Strange but True: Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclists: "Although you might not want to leave your protective gear at home, just know that if you do, drivers will be a lot more scared of hitting you."

Comments

[zoe-serious.livejournal.com]

If you can ever see the Codex in person it's fabulous. It went out of print several years ago and I've seen them selling for as much as $2-3000 but haven't checked in at least 2 years to see if they'll reprint it.

A friend had a copy that I used to get lost in for hours at a time. I made some full size colour copies of my favourite pages and need to get them framed at some point.

thanks for the online link!

[daughty.livejournal.com]

Great, now I want a tortoise, too! ;-) If they were not that expensive, I think I had one by now. Anyway, now we have the big cage for the dwarf hamster, so there is no more space for a terrarium...

[sephir07h.livejournal.com]

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