Inside the Alphabet Soup
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 Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Inside the Alphabet Soup French surreal animation. The film's site is here. url Today's pictures & links: Click to enlarge images. No Room for Error "astonishing aero-acrobatics", see more here (pics & videos)  (photo by B. Harry) ------------ Extreme Studying in addition to extreme sleeping...  (image credit: Labyrinthos) ------------ Cut! Cut! Cut!  - via ------------ Mixed fresh links for today: Cloned Fluorescent Cats - [fascinating] 10 Ridicously Unique Dining Experiences - [food] Curious (fake) KGB UFO photos - [russian forest again] Today is the first day of the rest of your life - [gadget] Pills & Capsules Art - [weird art] The world's largest jigsaw puzzle: 24,000 pieces - [cool] Grass-covered skyscrapers and houses - [architecture] Kitchen Rock! - [fun video] The Future is... disconcerting - [fun video] Win $50,000 Ultimate Makeover, just for a survey ------------ Good Postcard. 1969  (image credit: thepostcard.com) ------------ Clean Design by the Austrian designers Bernhard Buchegger, Michael Denoth and Thomas Feichtner:  ------------ Dragonculus  (original unknown) ------------ Some kind of a new sport? if it's basketball, it's some strange Russian kind...  (original unknown) Permanent Link...  Dark Roasted Blend's Photography Gear Picks: |
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re: the basketball picture -- I'm guessing there used to be a basketball court there, with the floor mounted on those little brick pillars. But, it was abandoned and the floor scavenged by the locals, so all you've got left are the pillars.
Well done Anonymous, that's precisely that...
The dragon is a fake, no surprise there, but it was created in the 1890s!
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/28/1075088090949.html?from=top5&oneclick=true
Actually, the hoax was also a hoax - it wasn't made in 1890.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_dragon
More specifically, it was made by a professional firm:
http://www.crawley-creatures.com/creatures/pickled.htm
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