Some Rather Cute "Mug Shots"

Many of the big-eyed charmers shown below are small jumping spiders, with head measuring only 2-3 mm. The position of their eyes, however, ensures an excellent vision (see particulars here)

Newly Born Animals

How baby turtles are born :)













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Sources: Karaul, babyanimalz

The Most Painful Animal Bite on Earth

Image: nebarnix

Remember how whiny you were when your parents made you get a job or mow the lawn or whatever it was you had to do to “become a man/woman?” Feel like a sissy looking back on how “hard” you had it then? If not, you will.

The Setere-Mawe people of Brazil have found something far worse (albeit less humiliating) than your first job at McDonald’s.

Meet the bullet ant. So named because those unfortunate enough to have been stung by one compare it to a gunshot wound – very unfortunate people; apparently, they have also all been shot. It reportedly has the most painful sting of any insect on Earth.

Image: Ty Christensen

‘Becoming a man’ in the Setere-Mawe society means intentionally letting yourself get stung by these ants. Not just by one but by hundreds of them at once. And not just on one occasion. There, you are not a man until you have done this ritual twenty times.

Twenty times wearing a pair of gloves each laced with hundreds of live bullet ants, stingers pointing inward, for ten minutes at each go. At first it seems like a horrible practice almost on the level of honor killings, but the boys themselves really seem to have a positive outlook on it. And in America, kids cry when daddy gets them the wrong color car for their sixteenth birthday.

Sources 1 2, 3

Lego Sculpture Looking Like Real Fire

Cole Blaq is a student artist from Bristol that really has played with Lego in a different way then most of us are used to. By putting several legos together, he has managed to create a sculpture looking like real red and yellow fire. It seems like Lego is no longer for children only, you just have to use your imagination.

Powerful Advertising at Work

You never thought you really WANTED these things...
but now you most certainly DO.
Cool Ads

New art media:






suction power of the news...

and of a latest vacuum cleaner...


Cars and animals:



Cars as insects:






That's outrageous!

Even more outrageous! -
various car manufacturers go on offensive with one company clearly a winner:





Very Cool Idea
I just love these :)




If only women spent less time cooking:


Weirdest ads:




No ad compilation would be complete without
"Absolut" or "Smirnoff" variations:




News from the pop front:
One day in the battle between Coke & Pepsi:


and between Apple and PC:


A worthy IDEA:


Finally, a HAZARDOUS MATERIAL warning:


Sources: Ziza, Advertka, Karaul