Evidence of Octopus tool use

BBC has a video of octopi collecting coconut shells to build armoured protective shelters, evidence of tool use, which arrogant humans use to think was a human only ability, but now we know other primates and birds (and now molluscs) can do.

18th century mermaid illustrations

This blog has a bunch of pictures resulting from mermaid encounters in the 1700s, not pretty!

Vincent - Tim Burton (1982)

Mr. Wizard and the Legend of Speed

...if i could take out about 8 seconds @ 2:47, i would.

Mameshiba 10 - Jelly Bean [with English annotations]

Japanese metro manners ads

A new Japanese ad campaign is released to educate commuters on subway etiquette.

Fake fingerprint plastic sugery

Apparently, fingerprints are now being modified by plastic surgeons in China at a cost of 15k$ to foil biometric security.

Erowid features Obama blotter

Erowid (which apparently established itself from funding by the Microsoft founding member Bob Wallace, also of DanceSafe fame) features this Obama blotter.

Also in other news... bad Obama E's hit the streets.... (!)