Police in Tampa, Florida discovered a mobile strip joint, complete with a pole and disco ball, at a football tailgate outside the stadium.

From the website:

"For $20, men were allowed to enter the mobile home, according to the report. Undercover police said the men were given alcohol and then offered nude lap dances for money."

Wasn't there a CSI episode on something like this? Link

US Patent #6966840 titled "Amusement Device That Senses Odorous Gases in a Bathroom" is why the USA is great!

From the website:

When gases from a bowel movement are detected, audible statements are transmitted and synchronized movements are effected in the automated character."

Once activated, a humorous audible message is broadcast. The massage may say "What a stench! Somebody open the window! There are rules against cruelty to animals!" A countless number of messages can be used. The messages can be simple and benign or can be highly X-rated.

The canary may drop over dead.

Link (via Fawn Jotter)

The Bosnian town of Mostar unveiled a golden statue of Bruce Lee, who was worshipped by the Muslims, Serbs and Croats population of the ethnically divided city. Link(via BoingBoing)

Who says money can't buy style? $8 buys you a very stylish duct tape wallet. Other items for sale: duct tape purses, hats, belt ... see a pattern here?

Link

From the website:

"Mattel sent The Body Shop a cease-and-desist order, demanding to pull the self-esteem posters featuring Ruby - a rubenesque anti-Barbie - from American shop windows, because she was insulting to the real Barbie. Then, in Hong Kong, posters of Ruby were banned on the Mass Transit Railway because authorities said that in her nude (albeit nippleless and pubic-hair-free) condition, she would offend passengers. One shop in the US was forced to take down a Ruby poster after a mall patron said his daughter had been traumatized by seeing it."

For other rejected and banned ads, see: Best Rejected Advertising (click on the trash can).

This website asks "What if Fox News had been there for other key moments in World History?" This is what they imagined: Link

Takind advantage of an obscure Los Angeles city law that makes any fruit that overhangs on sidewalks public property, CalArts professors Dave Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young created a mapping project to promote access to various fruits!

The result? Fallenfruit.org

What a wonderful start to a new life together! (Thanks Kandra!)

Erwin Olaf's 2002 photograph series titled "Royal Blood", featured in the Bilbao Art Centre, is definitely intriguing (a little controvery never hurts anyone!). This one above is called "Di" - notice the car emblem embedded in the arm. Link

Judith Schaechter's Parables in Glass is no mere mortal's stained glass. She's elevated this artform into a new level. Link (via Transbuddha)

The Church of Scientology built a huge vault into a a mountainside in New Mexico, marked by huge aerial signpost of their symbol.

According to the Washington Post:

"Buried deep in these New Mexico hills in steel-lined tunnels, said to be able to survive a nuclear blast, is what Scientology considers the future of mankind," ABC's Tom Jarriel said in his report. "Seen here for the first time, thousands of metal records, stored in heat-resistant titanium boxes and playable on a solar-powered turntable, all containing the beliefs of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard."

Link (via BoingBoing)

Doctors at the Lyon and Amiens hospital in France had performed the world's first partial face transplant on a 38-year-old woman, who had suffered extensive surgery in a dog attack.

Link to CNN Article.