Sunday smörgåsbord

Jellyfish Lake, on the island of Palau, is home to a massive population of millions of jellies, all of them descended from a few that presumably were trapped when the lakes connection to the ocean was lost centuries ago. There are numerous videos at YouTube.

A collection of photos of seagulls stealing ice cream. Via Presurfer.

Bicolor cats are usually black and white. Wikipedia has a set of photos illustrating variations of the "Tuxedo Cat" pattern.

Poor Sue...

Crappy balloon art. Via.

A British council is going to charge more to bury fat people because coffins for fat people take up more room in the cemetery. No indication of any discount for being buried vertically.

One sports metric that has not improved in 50 years is the percentage completion of free throws.

Google has released a detailed explanation of why that geometric pattern on the floor of the ocean was not Atlantis. It's an excellent analysis of a complicated subject matter.

In a re-dubbed movie scene, Kate Winslet explains how to win an Oscar.

An English pub owner was tired of hearing foul language in his establishment, so he banned profanity. Now business has fallen off so much that he's closing shop. "We got rid of a bad element but haven't been able to replace it."

If you want to see what 20 Germans look like with full frontal nudity, go to this link and move your mouse over their photos. via The Daily Dish.

Remember the man whose fingertip was crushed by colliding neodynium magnets? Here's a followup photo. Not bad.

Laughing while driving a car can be an offense. "It became a bit ridiculous when he wanted to know the colour of my hair as I have alopecia and there isn't a hair on my head. When I pointed this out he asked: 'What colour was your hair when you had some?'

Edgar Mitchell was a NASA astronaut and flew on the Apollo 14 mission. He is also a firm believer in the reality of UFOs, as he explains in this interview.

Want to find a WiFi network you can log on to? Go to this link and fill in a zip code. (If you're travelling you would presumably do this before you get to your destination).

If you have funds in U.S. banks, your assets are protected up to $250,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Because of the large number of bank failures this year, the head of the FDIC has announced that the FDIC itself may become insolvent this year.

The Financial Times reports on book thieves and people who steal single pages (especially maps) from books. Apparently insider crime is also a problem at some libraries.

A Darwin Award candidate. A 48-year-old Russian participating in an eating contest dropped dead after gorging himself on 43 cream and banana stuffed pancakes. On the bright side, he was declared the winner of the contest.

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