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Disneyland in Lego Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:17 PM CST DarylIF of the forum MiceChat built a huge display of Disneyland scenes made of Lego bricks! Go see pictures of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, Its A Small World, Main Street, Splash Mountain, and more. Link -via Unique Daily

Egg Inside An Egg Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:15 PM CST A chicken raised at a high school in Japan laid a giant egg. Inside was another egg! The huge egg, which was 8.1 centimeters high and weighed 158 grams, was laid at the Yokaichi Minami High School in the city of Higashiomi in late October. The egg was scheduled to be displayed after grabbing headlines in local and national newspapers. But school teachers decided on Friday to remove the shell by using a scalpel and tweezers after finding a crack. They later discovered another medium-sized egg inside the giant egg as the yolk and the white portion spurted out. There are now plans to break the second egg to see what’s inside. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!

India’s Ingenious Fishing Contraptions Posted: 02 Nov 2008 09:13 PM CST These huge fishing contraptions are called Cheena Vala, or Chinese fishing nets. Made of 30-foot bamboo poles, they came into use in India somewhere around 1350 to 1450 AD. Deputy dog takes a closer look at these marvels of engineering, with videos of the nets in action. Link (image credit: ezee 123 aka Anoop Negi)

Giant Lego Man Washes up on Beach Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:22 PM CST A 6-foot tall Lego figurine washed up on a beach in Brighton, UK. This follows a similar incident on a beach in the Netherlands back in August. You probably had the same first thought that I did: scouts for a Danish invasion force. Link via Geekologie

Man Bowled Perfect Game … Then Died! Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:18 PM CST After bowling for 45 years, a Michigan man named Bob Doanne finally bowled a perfect 300 game … and then moments later, he died of a heart attack! Link

Deadlock: Frog vs. Snake Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:17 PM CST Photo: David Maitland / National Geographic Photographer David Maitland won the 2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest with this stunning photo captured in the dead of night in a Belizean rain forst. Aptly titled Deadlock, the photo is of a rare Morelet’s tree frog refusing to be dinner for a cat-eyed snake. Link

World’s Largest Skateboard Ramp Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:17 PM CST In 2006, professional Bob Burnquist built a skateboard ramp in his backyard. But it’s not just any skate ramp … the $280,000 mega ramp is 8-story tall and longer than a football field! (It has an acrobat’s net to um, save a skateboarder from plunging to certain death) On a recent sunny afternoon, the ramp’s owner, Bob Burnquist, a renowned 30-year-old professional skateboarder from Brazil, peered over the side to treetops below and said: ”I’m not afraid of falling. I’m afraid I might jump.” That mind-set helps on the Mega Ramp, where skaters reach speeds of up to 55 miles an hour and soar like stuntmen. Approximately 360 feet long, the ramp is 75 feet high at its apex. That is where riders begin their run, speeding down a 180-foot-long roll-in to a ramp that launches them across a 70-foot gap with trapeze netting below. Landing on a 27-foot sloped section, they then boost up to 50 feet above the ground from a 30-foot quarterpipe. A shorter route begins with a 55-foot-tall platform leading to a 50-foot gap, and the 30-foot quarterpipe. Links: NY Times article by Matt Higgins | YouTube Link - via Ride Legend

Afraid of Being Buried Alive, Man Built Tomb with Megaphones! Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:16 PM CST Afraid of being buried alive, Brazilian resort operator Freud de Melo (yes, I know …) built a vault complete with air, food, television and megaphones! Under the shade of ficus trees stands the stone burial chapel that 73-year-old Freud de Melo built. Wind chimes tinkle above the wrought-iron door. But it isn’t a conventional final resting place. Inside the crypt, there’s a TV, also a water pitcher and a fruit pantry. Fresh outdoor air flows in through four vents from the chapel roof. Within reach of the coffin are two makeshift megaphones — plastic cones attached to tubes running out through the wall. One Saturday recently, Mr. de Melo lay in the coffin, shouting into the cones in a voice that echoed into the countryside. "Help me! Come quick! I’ve been buried alive!" It was only an equipment check — not an actual emergency. Mr. de Melo, a resort operator and politician, built a burial vault he could survive in because he’s gripped by a rare condition called taphephobia, the fear of being buried alive. "I have awful, awful nightmares of trying to dig myself out from underground," says Mr. de Melo, whose physician father named him, presciently, for the pioneer of dream analysis. Link Photo: Matt Moffett / The Wall Street Journal

A Computer Program that Can Duplicate Keys from Photographs Posted: 02 Nov 2008 01:12 PM CST Computer science students at UC San Diego have written a program that can duplicate keys from security camera photographs: The team demonstrated the software at ACM’s Conference on Communications and Computer Security 2008, where students showed off the technique up close and from afar. They took close-up shots of keys with a cell phone camera. Then, using a 5-inch telephoto lens, they stood on top of a building and took photos of keys sitting on a table 200 feet away. In both examples, they were able to capture sufficient data to create duplicate keys. Link

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