Originally found here, but honestly, they’d be better off investing in cloning technology — or at least a high-end Xerox machine.

• We assume this is a complete list of Facebook chat emoticons, and are looking forward to spamming our friends with penguins and picture of Chris Putnam (above), whomever he may be. [Caleb Brown]
• Dear Google: Why does it smell down there? [YepYep]
• Steven Seagal is not happy.   OR IS HE? [Ice Ice Babies]
• Balloon Boy’s semi-literate goodbye note [@kenbakernow]
• The first commenter on this YouTube vid, below, is right:  How is this not an Internet sensation?  It has CLINTON PORTIS, people!

• A Canadian man saw a statute of Thurman Thomas outside of the Bills stadium (pictured right), so he figured he’d take it home.  How’d he get a half-ton statute past the US/Canadian border?  He told the truth: “It’s a statue of Thurman Thomas.”  [WGRZ Buffalo]
• Who is Dave Castro?  We don’t know either, but his wife Lacey redefines the term “the old ball-and-chain.”  Castro won his better half’s weight in beer (and five times her weight in cash) in the National Wife Carrying Championship.  [Daily Tailgate]
• “Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool” and other words of wisdom. [Some Guy]
• Uh… does that mean this place is a gay bar? Then again, it’s Cleveland we’re talking about, and they have low standards. [Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks]
• And our video of the hour:

(via here)

A group of tourists in the Galilee region of Israel noticed some horses galloping down the road, so naturally broke out the Flip camera and started rolling film.

What happened next was predictable: An oncoming car hit one of the horses.

But the end result? The horse killed the car, not the other way around:

The driver of the car escaped with minor cuts and the horse only suffered light injuries in the head-on collision, according to News 2 Israel.

The driver softened the impact by slowing down the car in the moments before the horse hit.

The car was damaged beyond repair in the incident.

Click through to 9News for the video.

First, we found this animated .gif of a pair of squirrels practicing for the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie.

It’s so awesome, we had to find more pictures of squirrels proving themselves to be bad-asses.  Yes, some are photoshopped, but here are the other nine ones we had to share.

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are pretty amazing.   But what’s more amazing is that a government agency in Alaska called HAARP — the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program — is creating the Northern Lights effect itself.  That’s right, they’re replicating a stellar natural phenomenon using nothing more than science.

Wired has this incredible shot, and a description of HAARP, which they call Alaska’s Area 51:

Those things that look like weather vanes in prison are, in fact, part of “a 30-acre array of antennas capable of spewing 3.6 megawatts of energy into the mysterious plasma of the ionosphere” which cost $250 million.   And they light up the sky like something out of Street Fighter.   A+.

His name is Samsam Bubbleman, which really has to be made up, but hey, what’s in a name?

And he blows. Bubbles.

Yes, he’s a “bubbleologist,” a made-up word for a made-up job where you get to dress like a homeless circus ringmaster and blow really, really, really big bubbles.  Samsam has the world record for most people inside a bubble (66) and is aiming for the record for the largest bubble blown.  Dream big, Samsam Bubbleman.  Dream big.

Oh, and one last fun fact: Bubbleman’s services have been procured by Paul McCartney and Michael Stipe.

[Via Daily Mail]

August may be a special month for fans of mythic creatures.  One of them may actually be proven real.

We’re talking about the Mongolian Death Worm, a man-sized, snake-like … thing which, allegedly, lives in the deserts of southern Mongolia.  A team of New Zealand journalists are treking out in search of the Worm, armed with dynomite.  No, their aim is not to blow the beast up, but rather to scare it out of the ground and film it for all the world to see.  We’re hoping they do exactly that.

The Worm is, if real, arguably the nastiest beast on the planet.  It kills people, suddenly jumping out of the sand.  It  spits poison.  It “shoot[s] lightning from its rectum over long distances,” according to the Courier-Mail.   It’s one bad-mother-shut-yo-mouth.   It makes the Sarlacc look like a pansy.

Please, please, please be real.  We have a Boba Fett action figure which really wants to meet you.

Spike shows how a little European revenge toy is becoming all the rage in Germany.

The sexy swimsuit disappears by dissolving in water, leaving a woman completely nude and embarrassed. The sexy black swimsuit looks like a real bikini, feels like a real bikini and fits like a real bikini. The only difference is it’s made from a material that completely melts away after a few seconds in water.

The description can be seen here and the product can be viewed here … until it disintergrates.