Kader Attia's flying rats - an, ahem, interesting art installion piece. Pictures (1, 2, 3) may appear NSFW. Until you realize what it actually is... then you're just creeped out.

Mickey Mouse tackles suicide among other topics including adultery and pedophilia, in a series of 15 comic strrips. Old, but worth a look if you've never seen it.

This is really quite beautiful. There are many more panoramas like this, in the bottom-right corner.

You liked grouphug.us? One time I was sitting on the couch, drinking a glass of milk. When I finished, I threw it up, back into the glass. I then placed it on the coffee table for later disposal, and fell asleep on the couch. Awhile later, I woke up, said to myself 'I thought I'd finished this milk"... More complete stories like this at lowbrow dot com

Can you drive? [note: shockwave] Apparently, I can't.

International Snow Sculpture Championship Some of them can be quite complicated. [via b3ta]

Evolving Alphabets [note: java] A program called The Alphabet Synthesis Machine allows you to create your own language, letting it evolve based on some user-defined parameters.

Thomas Midgley Some have gone as far as saying that Midgley has had more impact on the atmosphere than any other individual in the course of history. He is responsible for the creation of leaded gasoline and Freon (the first CFC). He also worked closely with Charles Kettering, the man who created the first cruise missile. Indirectly, Midgley helped to form McDonalds. And it would seem that nature is not without a sense of humour, either [Look at the last paragraph].

The truth behind a bizarre tradition more inside