The Noble Fruit Helmet

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Gohan and Aochan

Jan 19, 8:11 PM EST

Via the AP.

"Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo

TOKYO (AP) -- Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster - whose name means "meal" in Japanese - to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan - despite her name."

a little joy from Cape Town, South Africa

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Last Person Alive to Have Named a Planet

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"Now 87 years of age, Venetia Phair (née Burney) is the only person in the world who can claim to have named a planet.

In 1930, at just 11 years of age, Mrs Phair suggested the title Pluto for the newly discovered ninth planet. "

Toshio Iwai's SimTunes and More

Demo of SimTunes: http://www.twofloorsrecords.com/uploaded/. After install, right click icon, go to properties, compatibility and set to 256 colors in Windows 95 compatibility mode.

Click here for some amazing videos of Toshio's other work.

Link to Tohsio's website: http://ns05.iamas.ac.jp/~iwai/

Brooklyn Green

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Bomber over Britain

This image is from Google Earth and is relatively recent. Title link takes you to the story where I found it.

$203.95 Worth of Sparkle

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The Sign

Look at the shot and think about it.