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Not to be out shown by the feat of bread in a can, a German company took it upon themselves to deliver the ultimate: Cheeseburger in a can!

Here is an excerpt from a review of said in(di)gestible:

“Never let it be said that we don’t make sacrifices for our readers. Terrible, greasy, wadded sacrifices. When word hit the Internet that a German camping-supplies company was marketing a canned cheeseburger, we were instantly buried under a wave of requests—nay, demands—that we get our hands on one and rate the experience of eating it. The German company doesn’t ship to the U.S., but we paid an embarrassing price for one on eBay, acquired by an American soldier currently stationed at a German military base. (We’re fairly sure it wasn’t smuggled out of the country in a coffin, à la American Gangster, but we aren’t 100 percent positive.) A few days later, we all eagerly gathered around the hot plate in the A.V. Club labs to see whether cheeseburger-in-a-can could possibly be any good.

Answer: no. Oh dear sweet shrieking Lord, no.”

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Sometimes you just have to shake your head. What on earth are these product designers thinking- didn’t somebody stand back and scratch there head and say “well darn- that looks like…… nah!”

From BoingBoing:

Today in my series of photos from my travels: this baby bath on sale at the John Lewis store in London’s Oxford Street. It’s basically a bucket (the instructions refer to it as “womb-shaped”) that you wash your baby in. Seems reasonable, but once you use the enclosed stand, it begins to look a little bit too much like “baby in a blender” for my taste. Link

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Excellent Face in a Place. Something kinda creepy, yet kinda cool about those windows.

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This is the cutest Faces in Places I’ve seen in awhile. And it is its own pun!

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This is like something that would come up in an action thriller movie (just before a tremendous shoot-out destroys the delicate wall paintings, collapsing the pillars and bringing the entire cavern crumbling down. Probably starring Keanu Reeves)

The pictures are amazing, including stained glass, paintings, and carvings.

Secret underground temple seized by police

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, November 23, 2007 10:12 AM | permalink

From the Daily Mail article:

“…the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.The first time the police came it was over alleged tax evasion and still the temples lay undiscovered. But a year later the police swooped on the community demanding: “Show us these temples or we will dynamite the entire hillside.”

Stunned by what they had found, the authorities decided to seize the temples on behalf of the government.”

Link to full article

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Every week Worth 1000 does a Photoshopping contest. Some awe-inspiring creations are made, which become very popular e-mail forwards. This week was Celebrity Star Wars mash ups with some hilarious results. Below are a few of my favorites. You can see the rest at this link.

C3P-Oz

Darth Garth

Han Schwarzenegger

Jay and Silent Jedis

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And now, we finally know what drove Lucas to create Episode One, thus destroying the balance of aweseomness that was The Trilogy:

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I don’t know why it was decided to open the sarcophagus after so many years.. If its an anniversary; or if some committee finally got enough votes; but I find this fascinating.

From Slice of Sci Fi

King Tutankhamun, the young boy Pharoah of ancient Egypt and one-time ruler of most of the civilized Western and Middle Eastern world, was finally revealed for all to see. The ancient mask and linens have been removed and now we can see what the young ruler of the ancient world looked like. While he served for only a very short time before meeting an untimely death, many feel he was murdered; this king has captured the world’s attention since first being discovered in the early 20th Century (1922) because his tomb had been left untouched by thieves and poachers for 3000 years.

[The face of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut is seen in his new glass case in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. The mummy of the 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century, was placed in a climate-controlled glass box in the tomb, with only the face and feet showing under the linen covering]

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[A facial-reconstruction model of King Tutankhamun made by a French team based on CT scans of the boy king’s mummy]

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[Egypt’s antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt]

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Images courtesy of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and the National Geographic Society.

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Josh Sommers creates really cool stereoscopic photos that create the effect of mini-planets ala The Little Prince.

There is a very large collection in his this Flickr set.

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Have you ever looked at an object and seen a human face in it. Maybe a wall socket, a wallpaper pattern, or a kitchen utensil?

I know I have, and its natural since the human brain seems very preoccupied with discovering patterns in things, and relating those patterns to familiar shapes.

It seems many other people find Faces in Places as well, and share them with the world at this blog. If you spot a “face” in the wild, upload it to Flickr for inclusion in this collection!

I know I’ll be keeping my cameraphone handy for the next face I encounter in an unlikely place.

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