The unsolved mystery of paper cocktail and ice cream parasols

Remember those parasols you sometimes see on your ice cream or cocktail? Did you know they are partially made of Chinese newspapers. Not many people seem to know this. Next time you get one, unwrap the top and bottom of the parasol and you will be able to see the strands of Chinese news paper

Castle made of hair

Woodgate's "I Wanted To Be A Princess" series used clumps of hair to create 3,000 bricks, which are stacked to form two Medieval castle sculptures. Debuting at Miami's Spinello Gallery, one piece, called Tower, stands around four and a half feet tall. Made of tightly bound hair bricks, the piece looks like clay at first glance, with varying shades of brown and grays stacked perfectly together. Blonde hair donors provided the bricking for the windows, and the senior set contributed a band of white hair for the tower's top.

Cat Kong

Complete with little helicopter toy, it’ll give you hours of amusement while your cat scratches away, completely oblivious. Made for recyclable cardboard, it’s an expendable way of dealing with your cat’s natural urge to scratch – saving all of your other furniture from Cat Kong’s clutches.

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Ice aquarium

The Kori no Suizokukan, or the “ice aquarium,” is located in Kesennuma in northeastern Japan, and features approximately 450 specimens frozen in ice. Bathed in blue light, presumably for atmosphere, the specimens include about 80 different species of marine life, flash frozen as they’re unloaded at Kesennuma’s port on the Pacific Ocean.

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The cubes

Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! The Cubes™ spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.

Each set comes with a 2-3/4" posable plastic figure and all the necessary plastic parts to build a classic corporate environment.

Cookie Friday - Now here's a yummy looking martini!

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back tomorrow

Went to the dentist yesterday so I will be taking a rain check today. Back tomorrow with regular scheduling