Lost Hiker Sees Lost Chimp

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008


(photos from Press Enterprise and L.A. Times)

21-year-old Grace Hilario was recently lost for a day in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California. Among other things, “[s]he said she worried about bears but saw only squirrels and what she described as a monkey, walking and then running through the trees.”

42-year old Moe the chimp had gone missing from a nearby Devore, California wild animal facility earlier this month.

Will we ever learn of the forbidden love they shared in the wilderness?
And who won the smile contest?

(via Susan, L.A. Times, via Press Enterprise)

Man’s Best Friend, When You Feel Like It

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Flex Petz - like Netflix, with dogs.

(via Dawn)

Animatronics Gone Wild Part II

Monday, July 7th, 2008

We brought you The Rock-afire Explosion last August, and they’re back, this time doing their rendition of Usher’s “Love in This Club.” Make sure you stick around for rapper T.I.’s appearance as a puppet controlled by a puppet! This, like the Nadal-Federer Wimbledon final yesterday, is what we here at Blogadilla call an Instant Classic.

(via SteveB, via PennyArcade, via BoingBoing)

Exclusive Paul Revere Sighting

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Every year around the 4th of July, hundreds of eyewitness sightings of the elusive “Paul Revere” are reported. Also known as the “New England Sasquatch” and the “Colonial Skunk-Ape” - recent photographic evidence may offer the first substantial proof that this elusive creature is not the figment of the wild imaginations of shut-ins and hillbillies.

Our Blogadilla research team has acquired recent exclusive footage of this creature in its native habitat. The Paul Revere walks upright like a human being and has coloration which allows it to easily blend-in with its environment [Can you see it? Photos on the right enhanced for better viewing]. Our Blogadilla Heavy Industries research team suspects that this example is a female.

Bonus Round: The Benjamin Franklin Instant Disguise Kit (just like Scooby-Doo!)

Urban Non-Legend: Python in Toilet

Friday, June 20th, 2008

A nearly six-foot-long Black Headed Python appeared in the toilet of a 10th floor apartment in Darwin, Australia.

The likeliest explanation: it is a pet that escaped through sewer pipes.

The second likeliest explanation: someone pooped a python.

Reuters link

Bigfoot Lawn Art

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Bigfoot lawn art.
$98.95.
SkyMall.

Octopus Jewelry

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Not jewelry for octopuses (octopi), but jewelry cast from octopuses.
Perfect for mermaids and pirates.

OctopusME:

(via Notcot)

The Jodi Report: Ambush at Doody Gulch

Friday, May 9th, 2008

This week’s installment of the Jodi Cat Sh!t Art Project (the JCSAP):

“Ambush at Doody Gulch.”

What Is It?: Skyfish

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Skyfish (also known as “rods” or “solar entities”) are a fairly recent cryptozoological phenomena - since the beginning of affordable video cameras. They appear as small semitransparent rods with ridged lateral membranes [top right and left photos, artist's reconstruction bottom left]. According to enthusiasts, they can only been seen through a video camera - they dart through the air at such a velocity that they are unseen by the naked human eye.

The reality: There is no record of anyone ever catching a skyfish, though a Chinese effort to catch them (in 2005) revealed ordinary flying insects. Given that all skyfish evidence comes from video footage - and first-hand observations from skyfish enthusiasts/idiots - the answers to the mystery are obvious: frame-rate, motion blur, birds, and insects. The combination of the slower frame-rate of most video cameras (50-60 fps) and the frequency of ‘wing-flap’ of insects and (small) birds in flight produces a blurred/elongated body with multiple wing-flap cycles within a single frame set. A similar effect can be seen in high speed footage of birds and insects in flight [bottom right photo].

How to Catch a Skyfish:

Bonus Round:
The stick used to catch skyfish is called a “spoodle.”

Flying Robot Jellyfish

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Three words you never expect to hear together:

Flying Robot Jellyfish.

The Festo Air Jelly:

(via Engadget, via Notcot)

The Jodi Report: Winner Number 2

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

This week’s installment of the Jodi Cat Sh!t Art Project (JCSAP):

“Winner Number 2″

BPOW: Bacon & Cheese Crick-ettes

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Bacon & Cheese Crickettes - Blogadilla.com

That’s right folks….bacon and cheese flavored crickets. These are made by a company called HotLix, a specialty candy company that has an entire line of insect candies, such as Chocolate Insects, Real Scorpion Suckers, and Larvets. Any takers for a Tequila-flavored Worm Sucker?

Big shout out to Blogadilla reader billb, who sent us what is definitely our weirdest Bacon Product of the Week to date. Can any of you out there one up him? Keep posting your bacon finds in the comments!

What is It?: Bug Fighting

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

This sport is common throughout several east and southeast Asian cultures, usually involving the large horned beetles of the Rhinoceros beetle subfamily (Dynastinae), whose members include the awesome Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) and the Atlas beetle (Chalcosoma atlas). The large “horns” of the males are used for territorial fighting, where they will wrestle in an attempt to topple one another, until one submits, retreats, or is knocked-off a perch. Fighting these beetles is a popular gambling sport throughout Asia, from Thailand to Hong Kong (another link).

In Japan, collecting and fighting these beetles is common among boys - Rhinoceros beetles are easy pets to care for. These fighting pets are common enough in Japan that one can even buy Rhinoceros beetles from streetside vending machines (photo from the Photomann gallery of Japanese vending machines), and there are many Japanese toys and models that relate to Rhinoceros beetle collecting. Also, this practice is the likely origin of the Japanese game Pokémon, which gained world popularity in the late 1990’s, and which focuses on the collecting, husbandry, and fighting of supernatural creatures.

There are also dire “blood sport” forms of bug fighting, involving more dangerous insects, arachnids, and crustaceans - as seen on the website Japanese Bug Fights! (sadly, sometimes the matches end in fatalities).

The Jodi Report: Cat Poop Art

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Jodi’s cat (named “Steve”) has taken to crapping on her kitchen floor. Because he’s a d!ck.

Inspired by the Sprinkle Brigade, Jodi has turned this into an art challenge. Today’s cat poop artwork is entitled “Cigar.”

Cat Butt Tat.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Just when I thought I’d seen everything, I saw this.  Is the guy really going to want to rock this tattoo when he’s 80?

Cat Butt Tattoo

(via Jeff)

Sprinkle Brigade

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

A group in New York turns dog poop on the sidewalk into artworks: Sprinkle Brigade.

(via Jodi)

Photo of the Day

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

There really are no words to describe this, except for the author’s comment on Flickr: “I can’t believe I took this picture.”

An Orangutan Has A

[Update from Heywood]: Proof that this photo isn’t photoshopped, my friend Dianna sent me a link to a video of this. Yuck!

His Name Is Tyler Durden Garfield

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

The moment you realize that Garfield isn’t real is the moment you know that (his owner) John is psychotic and bipolar .

Garfield Minus Garfield - The real John.

(via Susan, via Defamer)

MooOOOO!!

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

What does this image represent? Here are some possible answers:

  • how to check the oil on Bessie
  • a really good hiding place for a spliff, where no one will EVER look
  • something very very wrong and illegal in 39 states
  • junkie cows
  • where sausage comes from
  • ‘T-boning’
  • a very lifelike “pin-the-tail” game
  • how to inflate your blow-up heifer doll
  • drunken shenanigans at the ol’ dairy farm

Believe it or not, this is an actual graphic from a real website demonstrating the proper technique for drawing blood from a cow. (You take blood from a vein on the underside of the tail - who knew?!) Here is a photo demonstrating the technique in action:

The website is from a company, BioTracking, that provides pregnancy tests for cows and other ruminants. If livestock reproduction technology makes you giggle like a schoolgirl then check out this link for a ram ejaculator. Seems to me that sheep farmers could save a lot of money by just going by Good Vibrations instead.

When You Love Someone, Give Them Syphilis

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Thought Valentine’s Day is over, it’s not too late to give that special someone Gonorrhea.

Giant Microbes offers an extensive line of colorful plush microbes:

The Common Cold (Rhinovirus sp.)
Strep Throat (Streptococcus sp.)
Chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis)
Black Plague (Yersinia pestis)
Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrheae)
Herpes (Herpes Simplex Virus 2)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
Ebola (Ebola)
Sleeping Sickness (Trypanosoma brucei)
Typhoid Fever (Salmonella typhi)
E. coli (Escherichia coli)
Lyme Disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
Penicillin Mold (Penicillium chrysogenum)
T4 Bacteriophage Virus
Martian Life (fossil from Mars Rock ALH 84001) [coolness]
Staph Infection (Staphylococcus aureus)
Toxic Mold (Stachybotrys chartarum)
Giardia (Giardia lamblia)
Hepatitis C (Hepatitis C Virus, HCV)
Malaria (Plasmodium falciparum)