Expect “Punching the shark” to replace “jumping the shark”

Dean Brougham decided that he wasn’t going to become shark food. He’s way too full of win for shark food, anyhow. Dean was attacked by a shark south of Adelaide, Australia. So how is Dean living to tell the tale? He punched the shark. In the face.

“I just started beating it, just trying to get rid of it, and then it let me go and then I was just straight towards the cliffs,” he said.

Bizarre, indeed, but at least the story has a happy ending. And a moral: when attacked by a shark, attack back. Sharks don’t like to have to fight for their supper.

[Link: ABC News - Man punched his way out of shark attack]

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An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

It’s been a very long time since a video made me laugh so much that I

(a) couldn’t breath

(b) cried

(c) almost peed myself

Background: I have a cat, and I’m married to an engineer. This video proves that cats are all alike, and engineers are also all alike…

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Let’s name her Pinky!

A baby albino elephant has been spotted in the Okavango Delta. The African sun can be harsh on elephants and experts fear the little albino could suffer sunburn or become blind. This one may need to some serious adaptation to survive but, on a positive note, it’s already been found to be walking in it’s mother’s shadow. Experts say, if it can stick to the trees and cover itself in mud for protection, it’s chances of survival will improve.

[Link: BBC news ]

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The anatomy of lego, gummi bears and poodle-balloons

You know you wanted to know this:

<Check out lego man and poodle balloon here scene 360 illusion and the original stuff here>

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Today’s image captioning contest: creepy teddybear

Right! It’s contest time! Caption this fun ball of fuzz to the best of your abilities! No actual prize, but you do get bragging rights!

[Image from: knuttz.net]

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Today’s creepy pic: the scariest effing squirrel you’ll see all week

Yea, I know it’s a shopjob. Doesn’t make it any less creepy, tho.

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Weird animals: Real, live Furby!

Scientists have found a wide-eyed primate — a clawed fur ball that fits snugly in one hand — in the first live sighting in more than 80 years of a creature that some thought was extinct.

“It was truly amazing,” one scientist said. “I couldn’t conceive that we had actually caught one.”

Over a two-month period, scientists working in Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi caught and released three pygmy tarsiers. They bear a striking resemblance to the Furby, an electronic toy that spoke its own fantasy language and dominated children’s wish lists in the late 1990s.

Freaky, wot?

Read more here.

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Today’s insane science: leather coat grown in lab

Scientists at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology have grown a leather coat from stem cells, which is all kinds “weird science”. They’ve even named the coat “victimless leather”. Despite the coat being so small, it’s…well…bizarre. We seem to have no problem in using leather from dead cattle (or other animals, for that matter), most likely because the hide would have otherwise gone to waste, and because it’s a byproduct of a living creature. This coat is alive until fully grown. I assume that after it’s taken off life support, it’d still have to be cured.

Unfortunately, while this coat was on display in New York, it was pulled from life support when it grew too large for the container.

I had a thought, tho…Hmm…coatburgers.

[Link: InventorSpot: Victimless leather Coat Falls Victim to Science]

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Violent tendencies at a young age

Stumbled across this BBC article just now – a seven year old boy went on a rampage at an Australian zoo yesterday, killing 13 rare and mature reptiles in 30 minutes. He snuck into the in the early hours of the morning, and proceeded to bash the animals to death with rocks and hurl them into the crocodile penn. Children under the age of 10 cannot be held accountable for their actions in Australia’s Northern Territory so the zoo is considering suing the boys parents.

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Your ‘Awww’ Pic For The Day

Awwwww!!

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