At Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, there is an area called the Devil's Swimming Pool that allows people to swim safely right next to the vertical drop of the falls. It looks ridiculously frightening, but is apparently completely safe.

The blog Fogonazos collected some pictures and videos from around the internet of people swimming in the Devil's Pool. Snopes also says this is the real deal.

A 25-year-old man named Israel Sarrio had his arm severed in an accident. Doctors managed to reattach it, but were forced to amputate it again once infection set in. In an effort to keep the arm alive, the doctors attached it to his thigh for nine days to ensure the wound was clean, then reattached it to his shoulder.

Sounds like bullshit -- but no. The money shot is here, but the full story, and more pictures, can be found here.

Flickr user Dean Allen has kindly posted a mouth-watering set of pictures showing how he made bacon from, uh, scratch, I guess. It's amazing, thoroughly interesting, and makes me want to go eat bacon.

The Boston Globe has posted some breathtaking pictures of Jupiter and its moons from various NASA space missions dating back to 1979. A few of the pictures try to give a good sense of just how big Jupiter is, but I don't think the human mind can really comprehend it fully. One photo, for instance, shows the Great Red Spot, saying it's 20,000 km across. The diameter of the Earth is roughly 12,756 km, meaning you could almost fit two Earths side-by-side in it. The picture itself was taken from over two million km away. Crazy.

Hotspot Shield VPN is free, and allows in people in countries from outside the US -- like me -- to access services that only broadcast to the US -- like Hulu. These kinds of broadcasting sites are really making me question the continued usefulness of my TV.
(Via Chipbit.com)

We used to make oobleck all the time in high school, though we didn't have a name for it. We just always called it non-Newtonian fluid. For creative kids, we could have done better. Part of the appeal is that it's pretty weird stuff, and it's insanely easy to make. You literally combine the cornstarch and water, and you're done -- no need to let it set, no cooling, just mix and go.

And, once you've made it, you can do some cool things. Check out this crazy video of oobleck on a subwoofer. And, because it's every kid's fantasy once you've fooled around with this stuff, this video of people playing with a whole frigging pool of it.

In preparation for the Dark Knight, Scientific American talks with E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria, about the possibilities of there really being a Batman. Zehr's literally written the book on this topic. This is great stuff.

This is a very cute, very fun, and very addicting game about launching a hedgehog into outer space. Kottke managed four days, but my best is nine.

(Via Kottke)

"Are you fed up with telemarketers?"
"Yes."
"Would you like to find an easy way to annoy them?"
"Yes!"

(Via Neatorama)

Men's Health has a list of the 20 worst foods in America, and they are staggering. I won't give away #1, but here's their worst dessert (because most health-conscious people would skip dessert anyway):

9. Worst Dessert
Chili's Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream

1,600 calories
78 g fat
215 g carbs

Would you eat a Big Mac for dessert? How about three? That's the calorie equivalent of this decadent dish. Clearly, Chili's customers get their money's worth.

Fans of the sitcom WKRP don't need to wonder anymore about the song lyrics over the closing credits.

Work Friendly disguises your browser as Microsoft Word, allowing you to read websites at work without having to suspiciously look over your shoulder every two seconds to see if you've been caught.

If you're as tired as everyone else in the word of carrying around a separate club card for every store you frequent, try Just One Club Card and combine eight bar codes on a single card. There are options for a number of Canadian and American stores, as well as an advanced mode to create bar codes for stores not already featured.

The bar is a fun game that has you working in what appears to be a British establishment, tending bar and serving a variety of drinks to customers.

The bad news: it looks like climate change will have its most pronounced effect this year, as the North Pole becomes free of ice for the first time in human history.

The good news: Russia and Canada get to fight over the oil below it, estimated to be almost 18% of the world's reserves.

This is a short but very cool collection of photos showing how the army corps of engineers changed an airplane factory to a rural subdivision during WWII in order to hide it from the Japanese.