Check out this cool Japanaese fishing village made out of legos. I would never have the patience for this but I’m glad somebody did. The picture quality isn’t great but good enough, my favorite scene is the guy getting beheaded here.

Mako Fishing Village

Thanks Estella!

How cool is this? That’s rhetorical if you didn’t know, I think it’s cool and if you don’t you’re not.
A new pirate museum has opened in Key West called Pirate Soul. Some of the highlights include one of only two authenticated pirate flags in the world and the world’s only authenticated treasure chest. If I ever make it down to Key West this place is definitely on my list.

If you go, don’t forget to wear this shirt Arrrrrrrrgh…

Thanks Clark

Archaeologists in China have discovered a dog size mammal that lived 130 million years ago. Not only is it larger than scientists assumed mammals were at that time, it apparently ate dinosaurs as well.

Here is an article on Nature: Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast

Here is a NPR story: Dog-Sized Mammal Dined on Dinosaurs

Image © Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Maybe I’m weird but I think this is cool.

Random Name Generator

-Waylon Khemmanivong

Checkout these pictures of snowflakes by Patricia Rasmussen. They are absolutely stunning.

Photos here

Article here

Photo by Patricia Rasmussen

-Alex

A RotK EE trailer has been released! You can see it here.

Thanks to /.

-Alex

Check out this article from National Geographic. It’s about a human species that only grew to one meter tall as recently as 13,000 years ago.

Link found on Boing Boing.

-Alex (no that’s not what I look like, I’m signing the post)

Update: Here is some more info from Nature.