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It's not often you see a battleship about to be rammed by a giant swan.

bokeh — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:16:38 -0800

The Smallest Manned Navy in the World In the seaside town of Scarborough (home of officially the best donkeys in the UK) in Northeast England, spectacular naval battles are recreated thrice-weekly in the summer months. Council employees steer the replica battleships with their feet leaving their hands free to operate the guns. That is, if a new enemy doesn't scupper the show.

share your part of the world

nickyskye — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:48:24 -0800

Waymarking.com provides tools for you to catalog, mark and visit interesting and useful locations around the world. It's a fun site, packed with photographs, information and maps; a useful resource and tool for GeoCaching and other interests. Among the various categories included is Oddball Museums: The Glore Psychiatric Museum, Musee Mechanique, The National Plastics Museum with lots of great pics and links to other sites, Museum of Burlesque [nsfw], The Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, Orange Show, wbur Museums of Dirt, Plumbing, Antiquated Technology, Lizzie Borden and more oddities.

Flickr user gandibacardi takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and photoshops heads of models over his own face

Kattullus — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:15:47 -0800

Flickr user gandibacardi really likes women's cardigans. So much that he takes pictures of himself wearing cardigans and puts heads of models over his own face. He then writes (presumably) fictional mini-stories in the captions. He also likes to talk about cardigans. Sometimes he posts links to his pictures asking people what they think of his pictures. Sometimes he gets answers, but most often not.