Looks like a pair of coal tongs, used for picking up live coals to restack them in the fireplace, add a lump of coal to a fire, or to transfer live coals to something else, such as putting them into a bedwarmer.

The existence of polygonal circumpolar vortices has been observed on Earth as well, and has recently been duplicated in the laboratory: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/34136

From looking at it, none of it was computer animation, just careful control of the camera against the speed of the printer, using time-lapse techniques to speed up, and later skip the actual _printing_ of the pages -- from the little sheet-to-sheet registration errors, much of the animation was just shooting frames when the page has been completely printed.

Actually, you picked a bad example to use as your illustration of a booth babe; that picture is the NCSoft booth, and the 'booth babes' were costumed as signature characters from their MMORPG 'City of Heroes' -- the women that NCSoft has had as 'booth babes' for 'City of Heroes' play the game themselves, and if I remember correctly most of them are NCSoft staff connected with the development or operation of the game.

It's a Volt-Travel 16" wooden Tire Buddy, a tire thumper, as Bill Wixon already posted.

Actually, it's not 'Odd Day' at all, because the year, 2009, has three even digits in it. If I remember correctly, the last true 'Odd Day' was November 19, 1999, the last date where all the digits of the date are odd for more than a millennium, the next one being January 1, 3111.

MadMolecule is correct. This problem appeared in one of the books of mathematical puzzles written by Martin Gardner that were published several decades ago when he was writing the "Mathematical Games" column for Scientific American.

Actually, the Gallery of Regrettable Food is in the links down in the 'Spam' section of the Mock Duck site, along with links to other sites about dubious food or dubiously-presented food.