World’s Strangest

You may need to click/enlarge the image to see the subtlety of the optical illusion. Then the question to ponder will be whether this is the result of image editing, or whether it was created by clever woodcrafting with veneer. Photo from Erik Minnema’s photostream, via.

Michael R. Barrick created a graphic last summer using the Vancouver Olympics mascots and the internet cartoon character Pedobear. The image shows up in a Google image search for the mascots, so it was only a matter of time before someone used it without knowing that Pedobear is not an Olympic mascot. The graphic showed [...]

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. The Silliest Chase of All Time You know we here at DRB love a good chase in a movie, but this… this… is as atrocious as it’s royally silly. It’s also captivating in a weird way and has to be seen to be believed – taken from “Alluda Majaka” (1995), [...]

Photographer Nikki Graziano takes pictures and then creates graphs of mathematical functions which map nicely to elements of the image. It’s a very neat and beautiful way of combining math, nature, and art together into a single image. Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #611Link – article by M. Christian and A. Abrams Almost as good as “The Festival of the Freshwater Squid” (see here) As one travels the globe and observes the variety of fairs, festivals, and frivolities, it becomes clear that: 1) the concepts of “weird, strange, bizarre” are really in the eyes of the beholder – [...]

Image gallery of thousands of banknotes world-wide collection(gallary). This is a list of current motifs on the Currency of different countries. The customary design of banknotes in most countries is a portrait of a notable citizen on the front (or obverse) and a different motif on the back (or reverse) – often something relating to [...]

“QUANTUM SHOT” #609Link – by A. Abrams If you’re not having fun doing politics, then you chose the wrong kind of business Politicians are often convinced that they need to take themselves seriously 100% of the time. However, such glum attitude often leads to sore miscalculations and bizarre ambitions like the Doomsday Machine (see Dr. Strangelove). The [...]

An autistic Canadian second-grader has created a meme that has traveled to Antarctica, where scientists in a British research facility have posted the image and declared it to be “official policy in Antarctica.” In October, [Michelle Chipman] was walking down the hall when she kicked an inflatable penguin — which had been won at the Regatta [...]

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. Russian Extreme Loggers Off-road like you never seen it before – Russian-made “Ural” logging trucks and their drivers (from Karachaev region) are simply… unstoppable. Watch the video below and then click this link for more logging madness. Link ———— Cold fingers of… The creepiest icicle ever: (image via) ———— Dieselpunk art is alive and well Jud Turner’s sinister [...]

San Francisco is a city that has hosted and inspired many great writers. So artist Ian Huebert created an enormous map of that city filled with the words of novelists and poets who either wrote their works in those locations, or located their stories there. In the links, you’ll find a larger image. And at [...]