Weird

But Fascinating

Tilda Swinton
Oh so delightfully creepy. She may be, as Colbert puts it, 'from a Future Earth where the sun has been extinguished and albino people live deep underground, with the only source of energy being charged particles emitted by their iridescent hair', but, I like her a lot.

She carried Constantine (the movie obviously) all on her own, and she's a wonderfully creepy White Witch, aka Satan, in the Narnia movies (aka, C.S. Lewis Proves Muslims Worship the Devil).

I didn't realize it was her in Michael Clayton, which I need to see now. She's also slated for an upcoming return as the White Witch in Prince Caspian, and she's going to star in Marilyn Manson's pic about Lewis Caroll.

This is too awesome.

Source: IMDB

Garfield Minus Garfield
What do you get when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic?

Well, a much better comic for one thing. A fascinating look at the descent into madness of one Jon Arbuckle.

Source: Garfield Minus Garfield

Mary Worth Farked
A Fark photoshop thread dedicated to eternal meddler Mary Worth.

Very much not safe for work.

Source: Fark.com

Dark Matter Goliath
So astronomy boffins have now found the largest object in the universe.

Feb. 22, 2008 -- The most colossal structures in the universe have been detected by astronomers who tuned into how the structures subtly bend galactic light.

The newfound filaments and sheets of dark matter form a gigantic features stretching across more than 270 million light-years of space--three times larger than any other known structure and 2,000 times the size of our own galaxy.

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"If we were able to see the dark matter from Earth it would be a very complex network of filaments and sheets," Van Waerbeke told Discovery News.

That sort of cobwebby structure matches computer models which predict that the visible matter in the universe--clusters and super clusters of galaxies--are just the small lights in much vaster clusters of dark matter. All of it is expanding and in some places still connected by filaments of dark matter--rather like very stringy Mozzarella cheese pulled from a hot pizza.

"They're picking up these really large filaments," said astronomer Bhuvnesh Jain of the University of Pennsylvania. The filaments are 10 to a 100 times less dense than the clusters where filaments meet and things like galaxies collect, he explained.

THE UNIVERSE IS A MELTY PIZZA

RUN!

Source: Discovery Channel

Un-Blinded Me With Science
So an Irish man who lost his sight in an accident has, via surgery involving a donated tooth, regained his vision.

Yes, you read that correctly.

An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.

Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.

"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.

After doctors in Ireland said there was nothing more they could do, McNichol heard about a miracle operation called Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) being performed by Dr Christopher Liu at the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton in England.

The technique, pioneered in Italy in the 1960s, involves creating a support for an artificial cornea from the patient's own tooth and the surrounding bone.

The procedure used on McNichol involved his son Robert, 23, donating a tooth, its root and part of the jaw.

McNichol's right eye socket was rebuilt, part of the tooth inserted and a lens inserted in a hole drilled in the tooth.

Mwahahaha. They said he was mad! MAD! But who's mad now?!

"Now I have enough sight for me to get around and I can watch television. I have come out from complete darkness to be able to do simple things," McNichol said.

There's a website up with some pictures. They're a bit gruesome. http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc/groups/cpo/example17.html

Source: Raw Story