Talk about computer viruses! Sculptor Forrest McCluer took salvaged 30 old PCs from the landfill and turned them into sculptures of viruses (the biological kind). This one above is inspired by the T4 Bacteriophage:
The “T9 Track Virus” is another version of the T4 Bacteriophage. It consists of PC power supply cables, CD-ROMs, sections of 9-track [...]

Hey, knock it off with the legs! I’m the cute one!
Not all humor is funny to all people. Similarly, not all humor is funny to me. Therefore, I am the same as all people. Hmmm, great logic is the antithesis of great humor. But not all people are logical, so therefore logical people are the [...]

Spy toy gadget maker Brando has this “Magic GIANT 12-Surface IQ Pentagon – Fantastic Edition” for $49.90.

The FANTASTIC SIZE and COMPLEX IQ Cube!! The GIANT 12 surfaces IQ Pentagon! You may never face this complicated one! Your home cannot miss this one. You may not solve it, you can just disassemble it and try it [...]

Joy riding around the nuclear power plant does have a few side effects
Every week we spend time finding and sorting through our top ten photos. And every week we end up with more than ten. Its not because we can’t count. Rather, it’s because we don’t think you can.  (Pics)
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IT’S OFFICIAL!

The budget wasn’t the only thing that the council members of Madison, Wisconsin, had to consider during its meeting: they also decided to make the plastic lawn flamingo its official bird!
The new mascot was debated for five minutes, and then the Common Council voted 15-4 to make the plastic pink flamingo the official city [...]

One word..Strange!
Imagine a hotel where, in a single weekend, Brad and Angelina, Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer, and Jessica Simpson all stay under the same roof—without a single catfight or a single tabloid reporter there to document the drama. Sound impossible?

Even mothers have trouble loving some babies
The next time you smile, remember what you’re smiling about. Is is from something that you witnessed visually? It it from an idea that sparked suddenly in your mind? Or is it from combination of visual, auditory, and intellectual experiences. What you will soon realize is that all the [...]

At last, a mint-chocolate treat other than those Andes Mints
After a hard day of work and a fine meal, what better way to unwind than to pop a nipple into your mouth. Chocolaty goodness with a mint fondant center. Makes the gourmet meal the second best thing you are getting that night.

Perfect for your next power outage
Surely with this technological breakthrough, humanity has finally reached the pinnacle of a new and great scientific age. For years man has struggled with wiping his butt in darkness. But no more. Glow In The Dark Toilet Paper has arrived. Surely it is reverse engineered alien technology.

Powdered Beer! What a brilliant idea! Or not!
David Ewalt: A lot of weird and wonderful stuff comes out of Japan. Kaiju. Crazygame shows.The tanuki. They make good beer, too — I’ll put a mass-market lager from Asahi or Kirin up against Budweiser or Miller any day. But I wasn’t quite so impressed when I [...]

Animal celebrities just love being in the spotlight
It has indeed been a normal week. If fact, its been so normal that it borders on the abnormal. But a normal week for us here at the Impact Lab is far from what others consider normal. So maybe normal is a relative term. And I’m pretty sure [...]

Now that’s what we call body chemistry!

Truth in labeling — this t-shirt tells readers exactly what chemical elements they can expect to find inside.

This article is for everyone who has their head in the clouds
The deputy commander of a US Air Force base in England was baffled by what he’d seen: bright, pulsing lights in the night sky.

As the prophet foretold, the goat herders from the East will appear and
suddenly all of your tin cans will disappear
We are now dead center in the middle of photo season. Some think it is summer, others think it is vacation time, but more people dig out their cameras and start snapping more insanely ridiculous and boring [...]

 
Photobombing - the (often intoxicated) work of a dude, dudette (or animal) who sneaks their way stealthily into your photographs, completely marring what would have been another awesome picture of you and your friends holding up your beverages and smiling.
Although often photographed, their kind remains a mystery. Who is this random being? Where did they come from, and [...]

These dogs are on the move
Biology professor Andrew Poyarkov thinks that stray dogs in Moscow have learned to use the subway to get around the city.

You are sound asleep when suddenly a piercing noise jolts you out of bed. You slowly slink to the bathroom and flip on the lights. Your eyes are assaulted with the goriest of sights – a shower curtain smeared with bloody hand prints and a bath mat stained with bloody footprints. Your heart is now [...]

Forget the Genius Bar, one of the Internet’s favorite tweeters, Ice T, shows you how to fix a broken Macbook in his own special way.
 
 Make sure you check out the YouTube comments — which are a charming mix of racism and the infinite class between PC and Mac users.
(Non-violent Macbook repair video after jump…)

Reaching for her head, she suddenly realized
she had forgotten to let her head sleep

Another week has passed and the number of truly exceptional photos has been increasing. Of course the way we rate photo quality is on a strange and bizarreness scale that few other mere mortals can comprehend. They have to be somewhat painfully [...]

Making money this way..sheesh they must be desperate
An enterprising eBay user in the small Canadian town of Vimy, Alberta has a foolproof plan to get rich quick. Sell a videogame console autographed by Sarah Palin for $1.1 million.

When the camera was falling back to Earth do you think the guys were saying amongst themselves “Now thats a really high speed camera or maybe Say cheeeeese?”
A piece of cheese that went missing after being sent into space has been located – in High Wycombe.

Visitors to a UK safari park are being warned to look after their luggage, after a pack of baboons learnt how to open car rooftop boxes. (Pics)

Seeking work as a character actor in Hollywood, Rat Man often resorted to his
gargoyle pose when auditioning for horror movies
Art is often created to tell a story, or give an impression, or somehow shift your brain into ponder-mode. However, odd photos combined with odd captions creates a far different illusion, an incongruous insulting of intelligences, [...]

Vacuuming the lawn doesn’t seem quite so insane when she does it
It is the hours we spend laughing at ourselves that give us a sense as to why the whole world is also laughing at us. We can’t all be idiots. Well, maybe we can, but still, we can’t all be idiots. (Pics)

Hurricane Season is a season like any other, just with more water and wood and fewer greeting cards.  However, there are some things about Hurricane Season that parallels the all consuming Christmas time. Here’s the top ten…
10. Decorating the house (boarding up windows).
9. Dragging out boxes that haven’t been used since last season (camping gear, [...]