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Weirdo Toys

Weirdo Toys is the home for all those random toys that most people have left behind. The site is dedicated to showcasing the quirky, neat, bizarre, sometimes forgotten and downright ugly toys.

Jay Shafer has been living in a house smaller than some people's closets since 1997. His decision to inhabit just 89 square feet arose from some concerns he had about the impact a larger house would have on the environment, and because he does not want to maintain a lot of unused or unusable space.

Joel Scilley's 'Audiowood' Turntables

Joel Scilley designs and constructs custom wood turntables. Most of his turntables are one-of-a-kind wooden creations that are meant to be touched, and are fun to look at and use.

Multiple tower upward lightning flash captured at 9,000 images per second in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. A preceding downward positive ground flash triggers upward leaders from seven towers, three of which are visible in the video. The minute-and-a-half video covers less than two seconds of real time.

Maybe the entire universe as we know it really is just sitting inside a black hole of another, bigger universe.

Porsche Modded with a Boeing Jet Engine

How do you make a Porsche 928 even better? Add a Boeing turbine jet engine! Bonus: flame shooter lets you roast marshmallows while you’re out impressin’ the ladies with your lil’ sports coupe! Link Previously on Neatorama: Ron Patrick’s Jet-Powered Volkswagen Beetle and Honda Scooter

Caterpillar with Claw of Death!

If you’re a fruit fly, whatever you do, don’t mess around with this Hawaiian caterpillar ‘cuz it’s got … CLAW of DEATH! Nature is one scary mama, that’s for sure! VideoSift has the clip you’ve got to see: Link [embedded YouTube]

Das Tub

Students from Media Design School created this fantastic CGI/live action clip of the travails of a U-Boat diving in deep and strange waters: Lost in the frozen depths of the Atlantic a German U-Boat crew find themselves on a collision course with objects stranger than they can fathom. The truth leaves them bathed in confusion [...]

Music video created with Nintendo DSi

The video to "Brain Games," the third track from Arman Bohn's Atari 2600-inspired "Bits" album, was created using drawings made on a Nintendo DSi. These elements were combined with traditionally-shot footage in After Effects, resulting in a monochrome 1080-line-high heap of pixels....

For Alaska homeowners like Dane Havard, who lives on the Anchorage Hillside, it's not uncommon to see animals in the backyard, but on Monday Havard was witness to an unusual rescue and he caught it on video.

A Denver man gets paid to smoke pot and write about it as one of the first medical marijuana critics in the US. A decade after medical marijuana was legalized in Colorado, it's estimated about 2 percent of residents - or more than 100,000 people - have applied for medical marijuana licences.

A spectacular crash interrupted a race of Brazil's Formula Truck series.

Filipino inmates have teeth pulled out with pliers

Seeing the dentist can be a painful experience - and for these men there really is no escaping the agony. Inmates at a Manila jail grimace as they have their teeth pulled.

A disabled Austrian man was eaten to death by maggots in his bed while his partner slept beside him.

Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand has admitted he did not sing his 1977 song Ça Plane Pour Moi, which become a worldwide hit. He claims to have been manipulated by his producer. “I admit it wasn’t my voice,” says a bitter Plastic Bertrand in an interview with the Belgian daily Le Soir, “but it must be said that the whole deception was set up by Lou Deprijck.” Plastic Bertrand made the admission a day after an expert linguist concluded that the voice on the song, which sold over 900,000 copies, belonged to Deprijck.

Boy, 5, wins £6,000 in supermarket defamation case

A five-year-old Irish boy who was wrongly accused of stealing a bag of crisps has won 7,500 euros (£6,300) damages for defamation of character. The case concerned Tadhg Mooney from Balbriggan in County Dublin. The court heard he was in a local branch of Lidl with his mother in June 2009 when a shop assistant grabbed his arm and made the accusation.

Woman who went to Lourdes to cure cerebral palsy returned with two broken legs

A cerebral palsy sufferer took a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the hope it would help her condition returned home with two broken legs after falling from a hoist.

Windbreak falls foul of overzealous council officials

A Bristol family found themselves on the wrong side of the law – for putting up a windbreak so they could have a picnic on the Downs. When the Hacker family headed to Clifton for a picnic they were looking forward to a pleasant day out in the sunshine. But little did they know their harmless windbreak would soon send the authorities racing to the scene. A pair of "strict" council officers ordered them to take down their protection from the elements as it contravened the byelaws of Clifton and Durdham Downs. Their crime: "Erecting a semi-permanent structure". At about 12.30pm on a breezy Sunday, Jon and Claire Hacker, their daughters Sophie, 11, and Emily, eight, drove from their home in Knowle Park to the popular green space.

World’s first ice cream truck for dogs rolls out

Check out the full Thor trailer and get hammered

Now you can see the Thor trailer that debuted at Comic-Con, and check out how everybody looks, from Loki to Destroyer. It's an action-packed introduction to a movie that looks like pure superhero goodness.