Samuel Dinsmoor, a retired school teacher and Civil War vet, began building his Garden of Eden and Cabin Home in Kansas in 1907 from cement and limestone.
He ultimately everything from concrete, including an American flag and a stone mausoleum with a glass-topped concrete coffin. http://www.garden-of-eden-lucas-kansas.com/index.html (via Metafilter)
Thai fishermen caught this grizzly bear-sized, 656-pound, 9-feet long Mekong Giant Catfish. They had hoped to sell it to environmentalists to be bred, but it died too soon. So, they chopped it up and ate it instead. Link
When you die, you can have Dean VandenBiesen of LifeGem turn your body (or your pet's) into a diamond. He uses a super-hot oven to turn the carbon in the ashes into graphite, then press it into blue and yellow diamonds (retail value $2,700 to $20,000!).
Now, when someone approach you saying "why, that's a beautiful diamond ring you're wearing", you can reply "thank you, it's my mother!"...
So, looters will be shot, then smacked with a claw hammer, bit by a big dog, and made to sleep with an ugly woman. Sign seen during Katrina's aftermath.
The male nursery spider faces a dilemma - the female spider is much bigger and likes to eat male suitors while mating.
So, it develops a clever strategy: it brings a dead insect to distract the female spider, then it plays dead. Then when the feame is busy munching on the gift, it revives, creeps under her and begins mating.
In the Florida everglades, they found a dead carcass of a 13-foot Burmese python whose stomach had burst from trying to swallow a 6-foot alligator whole. Link
Blur Studio made this 2002 Academy Award-nominated short animation about an old lady who hears music all the time but can't figure out where it's coming from. http://www.blur.com/indexl.html (click on the Quicktime icon)
