The super squirrel.

I love this shot of a “flying” squirrel.

Super Squirrel, originally uploaded by louhamilton23.

I love these monsters.

The Guardian ran a competition asking kid’s to invent their own creatures and posted the resulting illustrations online. They are all awesome, but my favorite may be the Hairgobbler …

It is 25mm long. It is very hairy. This creature flies around, landing on middle-aged men’s heads. It crawls around to either the forehead or the crown, then uses the pincer on its tail to pull out the hairs. Then it eats all the hairs up! And this is the reason men go bald.

So that’s what’s happening to my hair!

{Via Boing Boing}

Abandoned amusement parks.

I was updating a link on this post when I ran across this list of abandoned amusement parks from Wikipedia. I could write a part two to the Adandoment King based on this list alone.

Yoda Claus.

Give me good presents he did …

Get the full scoop about this special addition Yoda.

Some jibba jabba.

Check out this awesome Mr. T sock monkey …

More Mr. T sock monkey fun.

Don’t taste me bro.

I love this button based on the University of Florida tazer incident.

I know you need something to do today.

So here are some extracooltimewastingsuperfunlinks for ye.

• CommandShift3 – It’s like Hot or Not, but for websites. {Via}
• My Lilliput – A Flickr photoset of little tiny people (btw, photos include nudity of little plastic figurines so it may be nsfw). {Via}
• Rap Graphing – I especially dig this flow chart. {Via}

Enjoy!

A four million dollar fairy tale.

Amazon.com has purchased J.K Rowling’s hand-written book of fairy tales for a boat load of loot.

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard at an auction held by Sotheby’s in London. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. The purchase price was £1,950,000, and Ms. Rowling is donating the proceeds to The Children’s Voice campaign, a charity she co-founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe.

I have no clue if the stories are good or not, but the I really dig the idea of a handwritten book. Visit Amazon.com for more images of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

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P.S. I recently read the first Harry Potter book and though I liked it, I felt that I already knew the whole story because of it’s intense pop-culture saturation. It’s like knowing all the words to a Britney Spears song without owning any of her albums or listening to any stations that play her music. They (Potter and Britney) are such powerful pop-culture machines that you can’t help but let them seep into your brain.

High wire job.

Wow, this video of a guy who repairs high voltage power lines from a helicopter is amazing …

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A Star Wars pop-up book.

I must have this. Here is a review of the book from the NY Times.

I learned of this awesomeness via Whitney Matheson’s Favorite Things post.