Today's Wow did I just see that?

Cylinders turn into squares when viewed in mirror
Kokichi Sugihara's Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion was a finalist of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2016.

 

I have seen this with my own eyes, it cost more to haul it off than to just make a mountain of it . . .

The Great Sulphur Pyramids of Alberta

Sulfur, useful as it is, is produced in such vast quantities as a byproduct of energy production that it is of little value. There's so much of it that Canadian oil company Syncrude's storage site is slowly turning into an enormous pyramid of sulfur.

Google Maps reveals that there are in fact three of them, a Gizeh of The North!

Here's a photo by Jason Woodhead, released under the Creative Commons.





If they keep going, it'll eventually be far larger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

 

Additional note, this area has the largest and 3rd largest dams in the world. When you first get there you kind of freak out because cannons are periodically shot off to discourage the birds from landing in the tailing ponds these dams have created.

 

Guy magically manipulates a playing card

 

Woman uses nose as twerking puppet

This clever person turned her nose into a twerking puppet.

The video accessible through the link is pretty wild!

 

Rock suspended in mid-air?

If a headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.

 

Seriously??

Pro-tar-sands activists say dirty Canadian oil is better because "lesbians are hot"


The "In Canada lesbians are considered hot!" campaign is the brainchild of Robbie Picard, a tar-sands booster from Fort McMurray, Alberta. (more…)

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Here's a swimming bat

It did not dawn onto me that they might be great swimmers!

 

Colorized 1865 photo of Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell


Marina Maral colorized this 1865 photo of Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Powell. I always forget that the world wasn't black and white in the olden days.



Here's the original photo.

 

I would nominate this idiot for the Darwin Award, unfortunately I think he might take innocents out with him . . .

Driver caught steering with feet while texting with both hands

 

Whoa.......sulphur ziggurats! Amazing!

 

VERY CLEVER ad campaign!

 

Don't drop your phone into hot lava

 

Powerful message in this PSA, unfortunately some of the language is NSFW.

How to make a difference
A PSA from Donate Life America.

Checking that box on your driver's license renewal, or application, is simple and saves lives.

 

I saw a quote the other day that indicated that Integrity is when you do the right thing even when others are not watching, although not literal in this case it is a heart touching story of people passing it on . . .

Server receives $500 tip after simple act of kindness

 

Brilliant decal on plumber's truck

That really craps me up. This guy is a real commodian!

(Tronologic via /r/CatsMurderingToddlers)

 

If I was as old as this guy and my body in the condition his currently is in, I think I might just want to die also.

Indonesian Man Claims to Be World's Oldest at 145
Mbah Gotho of Indonesia has an identity card that says he was born in 1870, which (if verified) would make him 145 years old and the world's oldest person — ever.



According to a 27 August 2016 staff report in the Telegraph, a man named Mbah Gotho, who resides in Sragen, Java in Indonesia, may be the oldest living human being in recorded history, though all he wants to do, he says, is die

 

Mom definitely enjoying first day of school


Welp, at least someone's happy about summer ending and the school year starting.

“If you look closely you can see the age at which children stop being amused and start being embarrassed by their parents.”

 

Vandals filmed destroying famous sandstone pedestal
The Cape Kiwanda sandstone pedestal, a feature of the Oregon coastline known to locals as the duckbill, was "toppled intentionally" by tourists. Video captured at a distance by visitor David Kalas of Hillsboro shows a group of people heaving and pushing the rock until it falls to the ground and collapses: "Got it!" one shouts. (more…)