The survey uncovered some really weird information (which is why it’s here at your home of weird news, PopFi).  Nearly 17% of male Canadian video game players have played naked.  Even more shocking, 9% of female Canadian video game players have also played naked.   The younger the gamers get, the more naked they area:  an incredible 23% of Canadians 18-34 have played in the buff.

I can only hope they’re not using the vibrate function on their joysticks for nefarious purposes.  Even if they were, at least they’re staying naked and peaceful, and not putting on clothes, heading outside, and attacking their neighbors.  I wonder if the 23% of naked gamers also overlap with the 30% of work gamers.

Image:  Joystiq

Tags: nudist, video games, naked gamers, naked video games, canada, odd surveys, naked canadian gamers, microsoft, xbox 360, xbox, joystiq, ipsos reid, survey

Even then I crash them more often than not.

But the king of the remote controllers may be this guy with his mad helicopter flying skills. He makes his mini chopper do things I didn’t think were possible. I’m still trying to figure out of if this video has been doctored. That’s how insane the moves this copter makes in midair are. This thing flies at a pace quite a bit faster than the airships and zeppelins we previously covered here at Pop Fi.

Via, Image

Tags: helicopter, remote control, cool, physics, gadgets, toys, RC

It was like watching drunks in a bar singing karaoke with the monitor showing the lyrics going on the blink occasionally and the “singers” coming up with their own words to fit the tune. Except this time it wasn’t just a few of your buddies razzing you about messing up the song. An entire national viewing audience can mock you for not knowing all the words to Stevie Wonder’s Superstition. (Which by the way, some of the lines in that song were a bit off the wall and I’d never realized it before.)

Why have I given you more scary insight into my television habits?

So I could lead up to this video clip.

It’s a hysterical interpretation of Joe Cocker with visual aids to make things even more clear. Sharon Cobb first brought this one to our attention.

Once you’ve had a taste of Joe, you’ll want to see videos of John Belushi doing his version of Cocker, so go here.

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Tags: funny, hysterical, Joe Cocker, John Belushi, parody

I’m not a big risk taker in my life.

I try not to tick off the Grim Reaper, keeping him at arm’s length as much as possible.

I’m wondering what the owners and patrons of a new eating establishment in the Ukraine were thinking when they mocked death by building a theme restaurant named Eternity centered around the funeral experience.

I thought I’d seen caskets pushed to the nth degree when I read about the Crazy Casket company in the UK.

I was wrong.

Undertakers built what they hope Guinness will recognize as the World’s Largest Casket.

Inside this giant wooden death box, the owners have put in tables and a bar and are serving meals with names that recall mourning rituals. Funeral floral wreaths hang on the walls and normal-sized caskets are propped against the walls between tables.

I’m guessing the Goth crowd is making reservations right now for lunch and dinner.

Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll stick with McDonald’s.

Here are a few pictures but more are available at www.kava.lviv.ua.

Tags: caskets, funeral, morbid, weird, strange, death, Ukraine, goth

That lovely dress, fabricated over a two week period by Katrina Chalifoux, won the fourth annual toilet paper dress competition, sponsored by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com. For her efforts, Ms. Chalifoux won a cool $1000, which is nothing to sneeze at (or in). You’d think they could throw in a lifetime supply of TP, too, but she’d probably just make curtains and clothes out of it, rather than flushing it all away. Still, if she can do that with tissue paper, imagine what she could do with real cloth she doesn’t have to take away from cartoon bears with gastrointestinal issues.

You just might want to stay away from a certain Russian resort while wearing your potty-paper wedding dress. That’d be a pretty crappy way to lose your marital wear.

Tags: toilet paper, wedding dress, ripley’s believe it or not, toilet paper wedding dress, tissue paper dress, Katrina Chalifoux, Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com, weddings

Some call it being a smartass.

Either way, it’s apparently proof that we as human beings are evolving.

It seems studies in Israel and California have shown that people with damage to the right side of the brain can not distinguish sarcasm during conversation.

The scientists are saying that those who aren’t able to distinguish the sarcasm will be less likely to succeed socially and will be eventually weeded out of the gene pool.

Squirrel Queen has the links to both studies.

The human brain is one freaky organ that has a “mind” of its own. For more proof, see just how closely you can pay attention.

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Tags: brain, science, human body, weird, odd, sarcasm

Just what can you say about a statue that honors anything involving the human butt?

It’s pretty much put me at a loss for words but I’ll give you the bare bones of it all and you can click the link to get the rest.

A Russian spa has built a five-foot tall statue of an enema held aloft by cherubs.

Angels and butt holes, yes now I see the connection.

No, wait. I still don’t.

If you find this strange memorial interesting, have I got some weird amusement parks for you to put on your list of places to visit.

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Tags: enemas, health, body, weird news, strange news, Russia, spas

It’s no secret that nearly everyone on the planet is mad for soccer, or as its known in most other locales on the globe, futbol.

In the past five years or so, I’ve grown to enjoy the sport more and more myself. I was actually having a conversation with a friend earlier today about the controversial goal during pool play in the 2008 Euro Cup.

Right next to my love for all sports is my joy in watching movies. So when I ran across a video put together by Spanish television as a Euro Cup promo, my excitement was doubled.

In the clip, they’ve taken some hints from the movie Transformers and combined them with soccer for some pretty cool action.

The video below is actually made of four separate clips that have been spliced together.

Trendhunter has more details about the video.

The image is from The Fail Salon which is always a good place to visit to make you feel better about how your day is going along.

Tags: soccer, Transformers, cool, science fiction, movies, futbol, Euro Cup 2008, sports, sci fi

Everybody and their brother are talking about the rising price of a gallon of gasoline.

I know I’m feeling the pinch in my bank account every time I fill my tank and see the numbers on the pumps whirling around and around faster than Britney Spears can pop in and out of rehab.

But at least the oil companies are up front about price changes. You can see giant signs with the ever-rising prices posted right there on the parking lot of the gas station.

However, companies that produce foods that are on the shelves of the neighborhood grocery store aren’t quite as obvious with their changes.

Everything from ice cream to potato chips to cereal and even soap are being produced in smaller sizes and packages without a reduction in price.

AOL’s Money and Finance page has the scoop on why there are fewer Scoops in your bag of Fritos.

If all these products get any tinier, they’ll be smaller than the modern art museum on the moon.

Tags: rising prices, food prices, economy, penny pinching, gouging

Whether it’s two-faced kittens or siamese twin calves or obese monkeys or featherless birds, I’m all about it.

I just read about the latest Mother Nature mix-up - a “unicorn” deer living on a nature reserve in Italy.

The Italian Bambi’s horn sprouts right from the middle of its head.

One-horned deer aren’t completely uncommon, but usually the lone horn will erupt from one side of the animal’s head.

Image: Center of Natural Sciences / AP

Via Sharon Cobb

Tags: nature, unicorn, unicorn deer, freak, freaky animals, weird, strange, animals

I can’t abide Gummy Bears. I’m guessing even those stupid candy criminals didn’t even grab any of these during their stealing spree.

I know I must be in the minority as the sugary, sticky products keep turning up in all kinds of shapes and forms other than the original bear like strips of bacon and tapeworms just to name a couple.

The colorful candy treat has also tempted the crafty to come up with a few unusual uses and designs.

Things like “bearskin” rugs

and sweet chandeliers

or a 13-pound gummy bear.

Finally, I bring you the “Death of a Red Gummy Bear.”

Everyone who dislikes the tiny teddy bear treats should take pleasure in this destruction.

Tags: candy, sweets, gummy bears, art, craft, design, treats, food

Based off of Mark Millar’s comic book of the same name, the film is Russian director Timur Bekmambetov’s first Hollywood production. Bekmambetov is the mind behind the highest-grossing Russian film of all time, Night Watch, and its two sequels. That explains why the otherwise incomprehensible name ‘Timur Bekmambetov’ sounded familiar.

What does going bananas in an office and throwing computers around have to do with “one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice”? I have no idea, but I can tell you that since this video was posted everywhere on the Internet, we’ll all be talking about Wanted today. Kudos, marketers! You got us again!

Tags: viral video, marketing, wanted, mark millar, comic book, movie, angelina jolie, james mcavoy, timur bekmambetov, office worker goes insane, office rampage

 Who doesn’t love a relaxing day on the golf course?  The sun’s shining, the grass is green and lush, there’s a nice cool breeze blowing through the trees.  Oh yeah, and there’s also discarded military explosives right off the tee box.  Wait, what?

Right off the 5th hole, Freddie McGee was operating a bulldozer with another man and, to his surprise, stumbled across a vingage 1960’s rocket, complete with explosive ordinance.  Fortunately for him, he didn’t run the rocket over, considering it was apparently an anti-personnel device loaded down with shrapnel.  Even if it wasn’t, running over things that go boom is generally not a good way to finish your day with all your limbs attached.  A bomb disposal crew from nearby Ft. Campbell was called in to take care of what was probably their fault in the first place. 

I know a lot of golfers, and I know most of the time they’re out on the golf course they’re just hanging out and getting bombed (hopefully not chicken bombed), but this is taking it just a little too far. 

Tags: golf course bomb, golf course, bomb, land mine, military, rocket, freddie mcgee, madison county, tennessee, hidden valley golf course

I live in a rural area so seeing dead things along the side of the road isn’t uncommon.

Squashed raccoons, flattened opossums, dead deer and stinky stunted skunks regularly make up my daily drive to work.

But I’ll admit I have never spotted a chicken bomb on the edge of the highway.

That’s what one motorist in Connecticut found - a chicken stuffed with a pipe bomb.

Squirrel Queen has all the details on that chicken bomb and other fowl related issues.

If you want to see some buildings blow up, check out these demolition videos.

For an exploding rubber chicken, check out the video below.

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Tags: chicken bomb, bomb, chicken, roadkill, bomb, strange news, weird, freaky animals

Everyone knows we love a viral video here at Pop Fi.

Whether it’s an office worker going insane, an ugly divorce situation or the Obama kid, we try to keep on spreading the video love.

One of the latest to hit the Intertubes is a clip of folks using cell phones to heat up some kernels and make popcorn.

There are actually three versions of the video from three different countries. The set-up is pretty much the same in all three - young adults seated around a low table with a few kernels of corn centered amid four cell phones.

Here’s the English language version.

Is it real or is it a viral advertising campaign of some sorts or just a video hoax?

Steve Bass has all three videos and some links to those trying to determine the truth.

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Tags: popcorn, cell phones, popcorn cell phones, viral video, hoax

There’s just something about bubbles that regress every adult back into a kid again.

When I see some tots blowing soap bubbles on their front lawn, I either want to take the wand away from them and create my own round wonders or chase the floaters and pop each and every one.

An ingenious little design called Bloom not only brings the bubbles but adds future blooms as well.

The bubble mixture Bloom pumps out includes tiny seeds which will hopefully leave a potential green trail.

The designers say they were inspired by the story of Johnny Appleseed.

I think the Bloom would be a pretty spiffy addition to one of the coolest bikes ever created, the 1960 Bowden Special Spacelander.

While we’re pedaling along here at Pop Fi, I’ll keep everyone in a cycling mood with Monty Python’s Bicycle Repairman skit.

Enjoy.

Tags: bicycles, Bloom, bubbles, design, cycling, green, Monty Python, Bicycle Repairmen

We’ve all gotten frustrated at work before.

The daily stresses sometimes push us to the edge.

But most of us pull ourselves back from the brink.

Then there are those folks who go careening over that precipice and land in Crazyville.

Think back to the hedgehog tossed in anger issue Pop Fi has covered for you.

That seems very harmless compared to the clip below.

This security camera video shows one berserk bull in the office china shop tossing computers, kicking over furniture, using keyboards as weapons, etc.

I’m going out on a limb here and guessing he’s no longer employed there.

Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos

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Tags: office meltdown, anger, violence, security cameras, surveillance cameras, rage computer tossing, red Swingline stapler

I ran across this video produced at the Savannah College of Art and Design that is pretty cool and creepy.

After you watch this one, you’ll never look at a No. 2 pencil in the same way again.

It’s got a weird Alice in Wonderland kind of vibe.

I wonder what would happen if you used Pencil Face for pen spinning.

The SCAD web site has lots of other short videos to watch and contests too.

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Tags: pencil, creepy pencil, pencil face, SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design, weird

Often that scalp tickling comes courtesy of a Japanese television show featuring something like a velcro wall or a crazy obstacle courses.

That was the case when I ran across a clip of an Asian man doing his finest impersonation of Bruce Willis from the original Die Hard flick.

The clip is entitled “Yon-sama vs Bruce Willis”.

Yon-sama is some Korean actor who is beloved by older Japanese women. The Asian stud is apparently eye candy while “Bruno” provides the comic relief.

I’ll give you a chance to figure it out for yourself. Good luck.

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Tags: Japanese television, Yon-sama, Bruce Willis, weird, funny video, Japanese Bruce Willis, Asian Bruce Willis

Pop Fi recently shared info about NASA’s upcoming Kepler Mission through which you can send your name into space, now NASA is all excited about its Phoenix Mars Lander’s recent discovery.

Before it even reached out and touched the soil of the Red Planet, Phoenix sent a photo that created a stir back at home base on Earth.

A white blotch seen underneath the lander may be a patch of ice, increasing the odds that the planet could have supported life at another time. The icy area was exposed when the lander’s exhaust blew aside the topsoil upon descent.

The NASA gang has named the patch “Holy Cow” for the first words uttered when they spotted the anomaly.

On Saturday, the robotic arm made its first scoop of Martian soil.

The government agency has planned a press conference for Monday morning to talk about their early discoveries on the Arctic plain of Mars.

If you Pop Fi readers have a Twitter account, you can see updates by following @MarsPhoenix.

Via Squirrel Queen

Tags: NASA, Holy Cow ice, Twitter, Phoenix Mars Lander, Kepler Mission, Mars, space, science, outer space, space exploaration, the Red Planet, ice on Mars

Pop Fi has brought all sorts of homes to your attention. We’ve had houses made of newspaper, “backpack” additions to condos and houses made from recycled trash. Even dog houses that would make some people jealous.

The latest unusual home is a house made of umbrellas. The structure by Japanese designer Kengo Kuma is comprised of umbrellas that feature zippers around their edges. Once all the bumbershoots are zipped together, a dome-like structure appears.

Inside the dome, the ribs and handles of the umbrellas remain exposed and are used as places from which to hang clothes and other items for storage.

The tips of the umbrellas poke out of the exterior of the dome giving the structure a sea urchine-like quality.

Unless one of the zippers gets broken, I’m guessing there’s rarely a leak in an umbrella house.

Via Design Boom

Tags: design, umbrellas, unusual houses, unusual homes, weird houses

While $545 is a pretty steep fine (almost $400 of which went directly to the hedgehogged victim), William Singalargh got off very lucky.  The more serious charge of assault with a deadly weapon was dropped, which means he avoided facing a penalty of up to 5 years in jail.  I don’t have to tell you that the only thing more dangerous than a hedgehog is a flying hedgehog with a grudge against your calf muscle.

The fact that hedgehog control laws remain lax in New Zealand, and that this dangerous criminal got off with a slap on the wrist, suggests to me that the National Hedgehog Association’s lobbying prowess is as potent as ever.  Like the bumper sticker says, “When hedgehogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have hedgehogs.”

Tags: crime, criminals, dumb crimes, new zealand, william singalargh, hedgehog, assault, true crime, assault with a hedgehog

It doesn’t take long to figure out I don’t have a green thumb.

One quick look at the window sill where my few pitiful potted plants reside shows my sheer lack of intuitive human/plant interaction. Only the heartiest greenery survives my care.

There may be a rescue in sight for my not-so-green house plants.

It’s the Digital Pot. It can let you know when your plant needs water or if it’s too warm or cold by showing emoticons on the side of the pot. If the plant receives too much water, the pot will filter the excess away into a reserve area.

It’s powered by plugging it into a USB port on a computer.Yes, it’s one more among a long list of goofy things you can plug into your computer via the USB port.

Tags: plants, intelligent pot, pot, design, computers, green thumb

Who doesn’t love some gross humor.

Come on, admit it. The lowbrow can still be funny.

We were taught this at an early age thanks to the folks at Topps who produced Wacky Packages stickers.

You remember don’t you. A pack of stickers with parodies of actual products available on the local grocer’s shelves reformed into a panoply of bulging eyeballs and worms and brains. They aren’t quite as odd as the Creepy Kids in the real ads we featured recently, but they’re still out there.

Now, to recall the origins of the icky stickies, a coffee table book has been produced with many of the classics included in bold colorful reproductions on the pages.

A few of my favorites are below and if you want to see tons more go to Greg Grant’s Wacky Packages Web page.

Tags: nostalgia, Wacky Packages, Wacky Packs, Topps, pop culture, 1970s, stickers

There’s nothing like looking back at society through the snapshots of the people.

I can spend hours scrolling through vintage photos and wondering how the lives of the people depicted were different from mine or just same as what I go through.

If you enjoyed Tracy’s earlier link to vintage photos here at Pop Fi, you’ll certainly want to prowl through the Vintage Photo community’s location on Live Journal.

They’ve got everything from Polaroids of family members from the 1970s to Hollywood publicity stills to old postcards, advertising images, news photos and the random snapshot.

Here’s a sampling of pics from the last 50 posted on the site.

Tags: vintage photos, old photos, snapshots, photography, Buster Keaton

I have to admit I’m anxious to get to play with the new Wii Fit.

The stand-on board from Nintendo looks like a real test of balance and, considering I’m not the most graceful, it will be a challenge.

One thing about the Fit, I don’t imagine the big white rectangle will be turned into a fashion accessory any time soon.

But I probably would have said the same thing 20 years ago about the NES controller. PopFi told you about old game consoles being turned into guitars. Now we bring you a new way those consoles and their parts have been recycled.

Yep, gamers with a flair for fashion can now wear their favorite retro controller as a belt buckle.

NESBuckle is offering actual joysticks and controllers from your favorite old-school game console as a way to keep your pants up.

Hey, is that an Atari belt buckle or are you just glad to see me.

Source: Geekologie

Tags: Nintendo, Atari, belt buckles, fashion, fashion accessories, gaming, recycle

I envision it something like this.

There’s a chemically-enhanced man in a white lab coat standing next to a counter top covered with a bunsen burner with a blue flame shooting out of the top of it and a computer nearby. He mulls. He ponders and then the lightbulb flashes on above his head. Gee, humans still don’t have a handle on the common cold and there’s still lots of cancer to cure, but I’m thinking of something I consider a bit more important.

Something like … figuring out how the human mouth tastes hard foods like apples.

Scientists have already figured out the anatomy of a mouth eating soft foods.

Now, they’ve come up with a mechanical mouth designed specifically to “eat” crunchy foods so that the science can improve food quality and learn more about how the body interprets flavor.

It even has simulated saliva

Robot drool … all in the name of progress.

Image: SkeptiSys

Tags: apples, robots, mouth, munch, science, anatomy

Nothing wigs me out quicker than a creepy kid.

It’s even worse when an advertising agency thinks that what they consider a darling cherub but I see as an evil devil spawn is fawning over their product in a commercial or ad.

Is it just me or does that kid at the top look like she’s salivating over a raw hamburger sandwich? Yes, I know it’s strawberry jam or something, but I can’t help but imagine it as ground up flesh.

And the one below certainly has a sinister vibe if you ask me. The glow of campfire flames casting a red hellish hue over everything. If you listen closely I think you can hear him moaning, “Brains, brains.”

With her gigantic eyes glazed over, the little girl below looks like she can’t wait to dig into what appears to be human hearts on her plate.

Plan 59 has more pics of retro weird, saucer-eyed kids and the food they crave.

And maybe the weirdest kid of all time was Vickie the Robot from the Small Wonder television show.

Yes, I know it wasn’t an advertisement, but this little girl is about as spine-chillingly freaky as they get. Maybe the weirdest thing about the show is that it stayed on the air for 4 seasons.

Enjoy.

For annoying kids getting their comeuppance, check out these videos.

Tags: retro ads, freaky kids, creepy kids, advertising, Small Wonder, Vickie the Robot, nostalgia

Chuck Taylor All-Star tennis shoes are everywhere.

I know they are in my closet. I’ve got two pairs tucked in there. That makes me part of 60 percent of all Americans, according to a survey that says more than half of all US citizens own or have owned a pair of the low tech athletic shoes.

The Chuck Taylor has gotten all fancy in recent years as exhibited in the pic above. Sure the basic black and white versions are still available, but the colors and creations that the shoes come in are now boundless.

Converse, the company that makes the Chuck, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. That’s twice as old as the peace symbol.

Matter of fact in honor of the big birthday, there’s a contest where you can come up with a design and have it mass produced.

Squirrel Queen has the details and links to that site and others that offer more history and options for your Chucks.

Image: Newscoma

Tags: shoes, design, Chuck Taylor, All-Star, Converse, tennis shoes, Chucks

The human body is a crazy gizmo.

When you start thinking about how it works it can be overwhelming. I pop in a couple of slices of pizza for fuel and the thing just keeps on ticking.

Curious doctors, scientists and anatomists have tried to solve the puzzle that is the human body for centuries.

Japanese doctor Yasukazu Minagaki documented anatomy with his drawings of executed criminals in the early 1800s.

Most everyone has now heard of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, but there’s another unusual museum in Amsterdam that is based on the collections of a father and son. It showcases the body and anomalies in its form. From feet to skulls and everything in between, Gerardus Vrolik (1775–1859) and his son Willem Vrolik (1801–1863), both professors of anatomy, preserved both the normal and the deformed to teach their lessons.

Jar after jar filled with floating pale body parts.

The collection is now the heart of a museum named after the pair. The Vrolik Museum has grown with several other major collections added to the founders’ exhibits.

For more images of samples in the Vrolik Museum, check out this Flickr site.

Tags: weird, strange, anatomy, Vrolik Museum, human body, freaks

Strolling up to the beverage coolers in the local quick mart now presents too many options.

It’s no longer just a question of with which soda will I quench my raging thirst.

Now, thirsty consumers have to wade through shelf upon shelf of chilled energy drinks, sodas, bottled waters, flavored waters, teas, flavored teas and electrolyte-replenishing beverages.

All those liquids must now make room for the latest entry into the battle for consumer dollars — Meat Water.

Yes, web site Dinner in a Bottle is offering to the needy consumer such delectable flavors as Beef Stroganof, Dirty Hot Dog, Chicken Teriyaki, Hungarian Goulash and Fish N Chips.

I’m guessing to get the full impact of all these flavors, you’d definitely have to remove your tongue from your cheek.

The web site offers a tempting description of each Meat Water flavor.

Here’s how they described the Fish N Chips experience.

“Cod in Beer batter + hand cut fries

Cheers, Mate! Health conscious parliamentarians altered this traditional British staple forever by outlawing the use of newspapers to absorb the run-off from this greasy delicacy. We bring back that old-fashioned flavor with all-natural newsprint flavors derived from actual English tabloids (and in England they can swear and show boobies!).

Don’t serve chilled!”

If Red Bull gives you wings, I’m just wondering what a few slurps of Meat Water can do for you.

Image: Plan 59

The picture above is not part of the promotional advertising for the latest addition to the Saw movie series.

The heads are actually available in a bakery in Thailand.

Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom brings dough and anatomy together in truly creepy form. Kittiwat’s family owned the bakery and he added his ghoulish artistic touch to create freaky food.

Like just about everybody else, I’m trying to lose weight and part of that process is cutting down on the carbs.

If all the bread in the world was shaped like the loaves above, it would definitely be a lot easier to eliminate them from my menu. And I thought the biting bread was bad enough.

For more icky pictures and details, go to Amiething Goes.

Tags: bread, food, weird food, art, design, anatomy

Nuclear waste and art are rarely combined in the same sentence.

However, a storage facility for nuclear waste in the Netherlands is bringing a new approach to the problem.

The Habog Facility has been painted a bright orange and is covered with giant equations to capture the attention of passersby. Inside the building, in addition to the radioactive refuse, are four paintings and the facility is open for tours. The award-winning design and tours are an effort to better educate the public about nuclear waste management.

To symbolize the reduction in radioactivity, every 20 years the building will be painted a lighter color.

The huge orange building is just a testament to how far perceptions about nuclear energy have changed since the Cold War’s hidden cities in the Soviet Union.

Tags: Habog Facility, nuclear waste, Netherlands, energy, art, design

My dog wakes me up every morning about 5 a.m. to go outside.

The only good thing about this canine habit is that it coincides nicely with TV Land’s morning schedule in which Star Trek (The Original Series) has a prominent place, airing every Monday through Friday.

So while I doze back off for another hour of sleep, I can do so to Spock and Kirk and the gang solving another alien crisis.

Often these encounters result in the Captain getting his groove on with some lovely alien lady. Yowza.

If you’re curious about all the info on Kirk and his intergalactic encounters, Miss Celania has done all the research for you.

Have you ever wanted an episode by episode breakdown of when James T. got busy? Check.

Did you think you were the only one who saw some weird similarities between the Enterprise and the Love Boat? You weren’t.

There are pics of his green-tinged, big-haired lovers and a video of Kirk in a liplock.

Comprehensive to say the least.

Check it out here.

But I believe the picture from Renuncln below answers any questions any one might have about Kirk’s manhood.

While we mere humans can now send our name into space on the Kepler Mission, Kirk is still traveling where no man has gone before.

Tags: Captain Kirk, Star Trek, lovers, sci fi, pop culture, Starship Enterprise, television

Once again, it’s Mother Nature to the rescue.

You can’t turn on the news on television or click online to a news site without hearing about the housing foreclosure crisis. All across America, houses are empty and abandoned due to money woes.

Many of those homes in warmer states like California, Florida and Arizona have swimming pools in the backyard. The abandoned pools become breeding grounds for mosquitoes which cause physicians and scientists to worry about West Nile Virus.

What’s the answer to eradicating the evil skeeters?

No, it’s not Frankenfish.

It’s the mosquito fish.

Hundreds of the fish are released into the murky, untended waters. The little swimmers scarf up the mosquito larva and help lower the population of the buzzing, blood sucking pests.

I love the food chain in action.

Tags: mosquitoes, housing crisis, foreclosures, nature, swimming pools, weird animals, mosquito fish

Roaming the Intertubes, I ran across a shelf on Neatorama that pulls off a trick worthy of Kris Angel and David Blaine.

It’s a “floating” shelf and you don’t have to be a master carpenter to pull off this trick.

The shelf requires just a few simple tools and hardware and can be as cool as the book you opt to use as your shelf base.

I think this handy little shelf would fit right in with the furniture from recycled stuff that PopFi told you about back in March. If you used a children’s book as the base, it would also look pretty awesome in a kid’s room.

For complete instructions on WikiHow to make your own, go here.

Tags: design, shelf, invisible shelf, floating shelf, interior design, shelves, craft, home interior

There is a new site on these tubes called ManBabies.

I think the picture is self-explanatory where the heads of fathers and their sons are transferred.

I know. Very odd.

NASA is affording me (and anyone else inclined) an opportunity to send my name into space as part of the Kepler Mission.

The Kepler mission is a search for Earth-size and smaller planets in the Goldilocks Zone and will be launched in February of 2009.

You can add your name and a message of up to 500 words on the topic of why you think this mission is necessary and important. Everyone’s names and comments will be burned on a DVD and put on board the ship.

Bonus time here. In addition to traveling into space, you’ll make it into the Smithsonian since a copy of the DVD will be donated to the National Air and Space Museum.

They’ve even got a certificate you can copy and print so you’ve got your own documentation of your astral “hello”.

Click here for a link to the form to submit your John Hancock. For other Kepler Mission goodies, click here.

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How about annoying kids in real life.

They run around like maniacs while their parents are often oblivious to the distractions and mayhem their “little darlings” are causing whether it’s during a concert or ceremony, at restaurants and stores or just in the neighborhood.

Sometimes these brats get their payback.

And for me, it’s hard not to guffaw out loud when that moment arises and the wee little monsters’ wails amp up the decibel levels like a cop car’s siren speeding to the scene of a crime.

Behold below, those exquisite moments.

This first one tops it all. Brat disrupts band. Tuba player owns brat.

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How about the nosy kid putting his head in where it certainly doesn’t belong.

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This tot’s face plant is so impressive even his mother can’t help but laugh. Wait until the very end to see the cam zoom in on his muddy moustache and goatee.

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And finally, PopFi presents a way to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

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