Scorpions on a plane

No, this isn't a sequel to the Samuel L. Jackson flick. It really happened on a red-eye flight from Seattle to Anchorage.

Blatz beer for your baby?

Ah, those were simpler times...

(via Now That's Nifty)

The Tin Man decides to go on a diet

(via Go Comics)

Most awkward urinal design ever

Just a little too close for my comfort.

(via Now That's Nifty)

Japanese pop star a CGI creation

I'm hardly an expert on Japanese pop music, so I wasn't surprised that I had never heard of Aimi Eguchi. At first glance she appears to be your typical 16-year-old pop sensation. She does, however, have one minor flaw: she doesn't exist. Turns out she's a computer-generated composite of six different girls.

If Muppets had babies

I think someone has finally discovered the inspiration for the characters in Angry Birds.

(from Meme Base, via Chris Knight)

One of Minnesota's tiniest towns disappears off the map

From the Star Tribune:

Photo: Jon Tevlin, Star Tribune

The tiny town of Tenney is no more.

A majority of the town's voters -- there are only three of them -- decided to dissolve Tenney, which has shared the title of Minnesota's smallest city with Funkley.

The votes won't be officially counted until Wednesday but City Clerk Oscar Guenther and Mayor Kristen Schwab said Tuesday that they had voted to dissolve the town. The other vote -- Guenther's sister -- was a no. "She voted that way because she knows how hard I've worked to keep the town alive," he said.

Dissolving the city means that Campbell Township will take over the city's two buildings -- a church that was renovated into City Hall and another church renovated into a community center -- along with four vacant lots, Guenther said. He'd like to keep the two mowers and a weed whip in town to maintain the lots, but Schwab said that's unlikely.

The little more than $10,000 in the city coffers also will be absorbed by the township. We're going to try to get some landscaping and culvert work done before that happens," Schwab said.

According to the 2010 census, Funkley has a population of five.

Space shuttle rolls out for final launch

Marking the end of an era, the last space shuttle has been rolled out. Atlantis is pictured here on its way to the launch pad earlier this month for a July 8 mission to the International Space Station.

(via Astronomy Picture of the Day)

What's in your fridge?

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It's incredibly easy to use. Just check off the food items you have in your kitchen...

...and you will be presented with a selection of meals that utilize those ingredients you have on hand.

You can even submit your own recipes.

Bon appétit!

"Flying deer" causes power outage

This is the kind of story you'd expect to see around Christmas, but it happened just a few days ago in Helena, Montana.

NorthWestern Energy sent a truck to investigate a power outage. The cause? A dead fawn, hanging from the power line.

It is believed an eagle snatched up the baby deer and dropped it. For the lineman sent to the scene, this was a first.