From Underwater Times via Ugly Overload comes this image of a Malaysian woman holding up a shark she caught for dinner. She and her family decided not to eat it when they realized that it had feet.
Says the Ug:
‘They agreed that she should return the shark, since, according to Chinese belief, it is bad luck to eat fish with any’ unusual characteristics. She returned it to the fisherman who had caught it, who then promptly returned to the sea.’
…’The article doesn’t say if the shark survived this ordeal. I assume not. But I want to know if Malaysia can expect any more legged fish in its waters. Also, why give up the chance to be the first human to dine on shark legs? I imagine they’d be tasty if rolled in batter, fried, and slathered with sauce.’
For shame, Ug. Catching and eating crytozoological specimens would have been so very Russian of them, which I’d be fine with if it were also delicious, but I’m not a fan of seafood.
One last gem from The Ug: ‘I’m no ichthyologist, but don’t male sharks have pronged genitals in the same region as these ‘feet’?’
Dude, I don’t even want to know.
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Are you haunted by the knowledge that even now rugose forces slither from their Atlantean tombs to wreak squamous terrors upon man? Are you desperate to purchase a few stolen moments’ reprieve from the noisome ichor of your variegated doom? Then break out that phat billfold, playa, and count out a few Cthulhu bucks.
Yes, the Call of Cthulhu nerds at RedDawn.net have created Cthulhu Bucks, ‘coupons the players can redeem for sanity.’ That’s actually ‘player,’ not ‘playa,’ dawg, meaning they’re talking about people playing Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. ‘Cameos of many Lovecraft Universe illuminaries broodingly adorn the blasted faces of each note!’
These adorable monetary implements are also quite practical — who doesn’t need a little sanity now and then?
The first print run has been completed, I’m informed, but you can still acquire a few at Dagon Industries. Stock up now before the next financial crisis!
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It’s making the blogrounds, but it’s just too incredible not to mention here: artist Wayne Martin Belger has taken a 150 year old skull that once sat on the head of a 13 year old girl and has transformed it into the spookiest art concept imaginable: it’s an old-fashioned, pinhole camera, and it’s decorated in aluminum, titanium, brass, silver, and various unspecified gemstones.
pt writes, “Light and time enters at the third eye, exposing the film in the middle of the skull.” See more images of the beautiful skull, a 360 view of it, and the creepy pictures it takes
at Belger’s site. (
thanks, Jonathan Moore! also seen @)
Image of NASA space elevator concept.
Slightly claustrophobic and not keen on heights, the notion of spending days or weeks in an elevator — even if it took me to a totally rad space station with a swimming pool and free drinks — makes me feel a little queasy. But the space elevator concept is a serious one, and it’s been taken up by the Japan Space Elevator Association who is
holding a conference this November to map out their *exact* and quite serious-faced plans to win the space elevator race. Sayeth Telegraph UK:
Japanese scientists are attempting to build a lift that will take passengers 62,000 miles into space. The project could see the realisation of a vision that has inspired science fiction writers for generations.
The lift’s carriages, which will themselves require new feats of engineering, would move up and down 22,000 mile-long cables. Those cables would need to be stronger and lighter than any material ever woven.
They would be anchored to the ground and disappear into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting above the Earth.
Scientists hope that as well as carrying human passengers, the carriages could also haul huge, solar-powered generators that could power homes and businesses back on Earth. It could also remove barrels of nuclear waste, dumping them into space.
“Just like travelling abroad, anyone will be able to ride the elevator into space,” Shuichi Ono, chairman of the Japan Space Elevator Association, told The Times.
Japan’s promise to spend £5 billion on the project has sparked swift reaction from other quarters: several competing space lift projects are now believed to be under way, with Nasa among those involved. (…read more, via Engadget)
Wow, I want one, but I have no idea what I’d get on it… These lovely rings are jewelry designed by Jonathan Ben-Tovim, and are called Encoder Rings. Each ring can contain up to 64 characters of binary code; 8 bumps / indentations represent the 1’s and 0’s that make up an individual letter, so when Ben-Tovim gets them into more mass production by way of 3D printing, individuals could have their own message “printed” onto their ring. It’s kind of a hot idea for lots of reasons… want! (via psfk, thanks Evil Signtist!)
Image: the Delorean Mashup named 88MPH, an entry for the race by ALL Power Labs, which Burt Reynolds will not confirm nor deny he is driving for the event.
In The Cannonball Run, Burt Reynolds is a has-been race car driver and with his wacky sidekick played by Dom DeLuise (with his superhero alter ego, Captain Chaos, always waiting in the wings), they race an ambulance in a cross-country outlaw road race. In Escape From Berkeley, an actual event, several teams of biofuel vehicles are breaking the laws of consumption and — heh — gasification in a road rally of alternatively powered vehicles from Berkeley, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. They say, “Part engineering problem, part artistic opportunity, the rally challenges contestants to start their “engines” on something other than petroleum based fuel, and by any means necessary, cause their “vehicles” show up in Las Vegas three days later: using only fuels/power/motive force scavenged “for free” along the route.”
Check out the cool vehicles on the website; the FAQ allows the use of hamsters for power (CALL PETA!); the rally ranges from October 10-13th. There was a cool Escape From Berkeley kit at Maker Faire — the race starts Saturday October 11, but there’s a benefit dinner and event the night before if you’re around. Check for a mini lineup of events after the jump. At press time, Captain Chaos has not returned our requests for a press statement.
But I did embed a video of Robot Chicken’s take on Cannonball Run after the jump, in case it is what actually happens when these people escape from Berkeley.
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This is a story on CNN.com about the town of Boca Raton, where 6-foot-long iguanas have begun to proliferate, causing a nuisance and extreme fear to the pansy-ass residents, who are so scared that their dogs and/or children are going to be attacked that they’re raising a holy ruckus and expressing their terror to the news reporters.
Says the announcer with a hint of bemusement in her voice, “I couldn’t find any examples of iguanas attacking dogs or humans.” I lived with an iguana named Grendel for a year and actually sat on him once (poor thing — he was OK but I felt bad), and at no time did I ever get the sense that he would have attacked anyone.
In any event, people, six feet long hardly qualifies as “giant.” When I saw the headline, I was expecting iguanas the SIZE of Boca Raton. Hope springs eternal.
Yesterday for London Fashion Week, one designer did a
Pac Man tribute in their designs, and the results are pretty awesome (warning: gallery link NSFW due to nippleage). “Those attending the Giles show yesterday were transported to a bygone era, as the catwalk became an arcade game. Models wearing huge Pac-Man headgear chased each other down the runway – the only thing missing was a soundtrack of ever escalating beeps.”
Did you know that “the legend of the jackalope (also referred to as the antelabbit or stagbunny) may have originated from sightings of desert hares afflicted by a papillomavirus that caused them to sprout horny protrusions all over their bodies?” Now you do!
This is according to hansigurumi, who operates a store on Etsy billing itself as the “home of peculiar knitted cephalopods and other original designs.”
Hansi, if I may be so familiar, is based in Seattle and sells patterns for such knitted delights as the praying mantis, cuttlefish, hermit crabs, jellyfish and garden snails. My favorite is the fierce deep sea anglerfish Amigurumi — that’s the one that swims around with the weird little biolantern held in front of its face, like the unfortunate groundskeeper at a Dunwich cemetery, circa 1929.
For those of you, like me, for whom (possibly) imaginary knitted entities are the order of the day, you’ll want to gravitate to hansigurimi’s Loch Ness Monster pattern. Now with just a little knit-one-pearl-two, you can cuddle up with the most adorable cryptid since Sweetums!
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