Daily Digest Blog
Mar 12 2010
Man marries his Pillow
Categorized under Extreme People, OMG!, Silly but True!
Posted by Marcie
28 year old Lee jin-gyu of Korea recently said ‘I Do’ to his body pillow. That is him kissing his ‘bride’ in a wedding dress. The pillow has the image of Fate Testarossa, an anime character from the Mahou Shoujo lyrical Nanoha series. The wedding was even officiated by a preist.
Friends of Lee say he is obsessed with the pillow, taking it everywhere, to dinner, ordering food for it…uh ya. Here is a clip of Lee and Fate spending the day at an amusement park, they even go on a ride!
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A car that runs on coffee!
Topic: Amazing Technology, Technology, Wacky Inventions
I think I picked this story because the name of this car is the Car-puccino: a car that runs on coffee. No really! Created by a group of British scientists for the Big Bang Science Fair in Manchester England, this car will do three miles per kilo of ground coffee – the equivalent of about [...] MORE
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Gangsta Babies: Yes, they are real
Topic: OMG!
This is Big Deuce, part of the Gangsta Babies line by Mezco Toys, these are now sold out, but you can probably find one on Ebay. I still don’t believe it. We only had Cabbage Patch dolls I was a kid. MORE
Granny DJ Rocks Paris Clubs
Topic: Extreme People
This is DJ Ruth Flowers, a highly sought after DJ…who also happens to be a 69 year old Grandmother. She spins in the most prestigious nightclubs in Paris. You can check out her skills on her MySpace. MORE
Largest Gum Wrapper Chain Hits NYC
Topic: Unusual Art
Gary Duschl has created the largest Gum Wrapper Chain and you can see it at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Times Square beginning Wednesday March 10th, 2010. Here’s something to chew on: Gary Duschl has a gum wrapper chain that stretches for 12 miles. There are 1,500,000 gum wrappers in the chain and all are Wrigley’s brand. That’s 42 [...] MORE
Quake in Chile may have Shortened Days on Earth!
Topic: Videos
The powerful quake in Chile might have tipped Earth’s Axis and shortened our days here on Earth, 1.26 mircoseconds a day. Let Bill Nye the Science Guy explain: More info on TIME.com. SOURCE MORE
Kid Directs Planes at JFK Airport
Topic: OMG!
Sometimes it isn’t cool to bring your kids to work. An Air Traffic controller let his young son make radio transmissions to commercial planes awaiting take off at JFK a few weeks ago. (Video) MORE
Rare Black Penguin Spotted in Antartica
Topic: Animal Oddities
You might not see anything out of the ordinary with this photo, but this Penguin is not wearing a traditional tux! Andrew Evans captured this photo of a an all-black penguin while traveling in Antarctica. National Geographic contacted Ornithologist Dr. Allan Baker for comment and he called the penguin “a one in a zillion kind of [...] MORE
Snowboarding Dogs
Topic: Animal Oddities
We have seen dogs on skateboards, so now it is time for dogs on snowboards! They love it and are pretty good too! Check out Tillman and Rose hit the slopes (video): When Dogs Snowboard from Mountain High Resort on Vimeo. MORE
Frogmen versus Google
Topic: Silly but True!, Technology
For some time now, Google has been sending out cars equipped with 360-degree panoramic cameras for their street view project. They’ve been doing this in cities all across the world. Since they started it up in 2007, their cameras have caught all kinds of unusual things, from car-crashes to crime scenes to protests. One of the [...] MORE
