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Extreme Roof Riding

Those suffering from fear of heights look away now... This roof top bike stunt was performed by a daredevil in Santos, Brazil.

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I want this car in my garage

This is "Fastlane" - a futuristic shape designed for Universal Pictures by concept car maker Trans FX (more info).

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Sad

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A Blue-Eyed Beauty

With a crabby disposition.

Photo by Tim Laman, National Geographic

A blue-eyed crab nestles in antler coral off Namenalala island in the Fiji Islands. But here is something even weirder: a blue ribbon eel that can abruptly change its sex:

Photo by Tim Laman, National Geographic

"The expanded nostrils end with fanlike flourishes, and the tip of the eel's lower jaw terminates with three tentacles." A convenient way to usher the food into his (or her?) toothy mouth.

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Music Frozen in Time

This wonderful sculpture is located in Helsinki - a monument to Sibelius. More than a hundred steel cylinders make soft sounds in the wind. Nearby stands a steel sculpture of the composer's disembodied head.

(image credit: Alisa)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

The Roar From Outer Space - [space]
12 Moving Building Facades - [architecture, videos]
Retrospective: Video Games Graphics - [gaming]
January's Little Secret - [interesting]
Stonehedge beneath the waters of Lake Michigan - [weird]
Fishing boat (almost) gets airborne - [wow video]
Voice-controlled Blender - [neat video]
This glass cleaning is gonna take some time... - [fun video]
Epic Video About World War III - [wow video]

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Exciting technology

Russian peasant makes a phone call, ca. 1910 -

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Great Retro-Future Woodwork

Johnna Y. Klukas has very smooth items to add to your decorum (sophisticated interior). She also makes wooden boxes; each looks like a fortress, defending its contents.

(images credit: Johnna Y. Klukas)

Even more retro-future crafts... this time made out of blown glass.

Rik Allen says: "The futuristic antiquity of this series was inspired by my life-long fascination with the design of technology - especially the purposefully “futuristic” technology of the mid-20th Century... I’ve been drawing rockets for as long as I can remember, and the power of their image is expressed in the work you see today – vessels of cinematic grace and movement that travel the black seas of our creative infinity."

(images credit: Rik Allen)

"Inside these interplanetary vessels, made of glass and metal, are spheres of power, perhaps harnessing the plasma of a red giant or the molecular thermodynamics of an electrochemical cell, but more likely harnessing that even more powerful and elusive force of our imagination"

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Bad Dog!

Don't get too upset, though. It could be a bad dog, but at least it's not a cooked dog (a sign in Cambodia)

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Brave Indonesian army dogs -

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The Stronghold of Knowledge

Library images projected on a fortress, on a grand scale. Does anybody know where it took place?

UPDATE:
Images of books on shelves are seen projected on the walls of the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City - part of a show called "Or Shalem, Jerusalem Lights the Night", staged by a group called Skertzo on October 7, 2008.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) See more illuminations on this page.

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Walcott's Instant Pain Annihilator

Some kind of incredible spiritual warfare happens here, in this fantastic ad, ca. 1863:

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Download bigger version here.

Demons of Weak Nerves and Demons of Toothache, BE GONE!

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Toy Fail

The dog gets decapitated when you blow this balloon: