Potpourri
New Portland company delivers large loads with bikes to cut down on delivery trucks clogging up traffic.
Woman suffers stroke, now has a phantom THIRD ARM!
Fun video of Earth from the POV of Martians!
posthuman_blues kind of mocks this, but I think
Segway's new PUMA looks pretty awesome.
inkytwist wanted to know
what this is, and everyone's making smart-aleck remarks, even me. I said "Antarctica in 2 years."
Bizarre extinct Buddhist sect in Japan which participated in extreme self-inflicted torture in search of enlightenment. See, Christians don't have a monopoly on beliefs that contradict the teachings of their founder!
Video:
Pocket phonograph, the proto-Walkman!
If you think
the American version of LazyTown is weird, get a load of
the Icelandic version! I still like it though!
Can't breathe... laughing too hard!
And since these potpourri posts don't have enough embedded videos in them, I give you Danna Paola singing "Chiquita Pero Picosa," with what seems to be a cameo by the Macarena dude toward the end:
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(I find it amusing that Latin dancing always looks incredibly sexy even in inappropriate places such as this video by a child singer. And no, not Danna's dancing, but the stuff around 4:05.)