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Ninty-nine of the strangest pictures of the year. I went through them all. Here are the most interesting to me:



Spiderman Stunt in China:



Bowling ball rosary:



"Cess" a short-beaked echidna blows a bubble from her nose:



A rare two-toned lobster:



Flooding cuts through a section of the highway in Sidney, N.Y.:



Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose:



Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform a mirror formation:



A two and a half week-old baby aardvark:



Solar-powered video panel embedded in a tombstone:

And now this. Something about global warming here?:



And...

Anyone seen Hogeye lately?



BAKERSFIELD - Witnesses said a man set himself and a Christmas tree on fire in front of the County Courthouse before courthouse worker a deputy were able to put out the flames with a blanket and fire extinguishers.

The man carried a sign that read “Expletive religious freedom and the silent KHSD.”

The last reference, possibly to the Kern High School District’s decision Thursday to change the name of winter and spring break to Christmas and Easter break.

Witnesses said the man wrapped himself in an American flag and set himself on fire.

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Actually, looks like this nut is on our side. A bit extreme.

The guy in the picture DOES like a bit like Hogeye. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from him lately. (And yes, on our side but a bit extreme.)

See here.

From an art show in Poland that is causing quite a stir.


It's called "NaziSexyMouse."

MOSCOW — Two Russian curators who angered the Russian Orthodox Church with an exhibition that included images of Jesus Christ portrayed as Mickey Mouse and Vladimir Lenin were convicted Monday of inciting religious hatred and fined, but not sentenced to prison.

The case of Yuri Samodurov, 58, and Andrei Yerofeyev, 54, has been closely watched by human rights activists. The decision by a Moscow court could sidestep the possibility of an international outcry over imprisoning the two respected art-world figures, but is unlikely to stem concerns about the growing influence of the church and the specter of Soviet-style censorship returning.

"This conviction means our government is following a dangerous path for a so-called democracy," Samodurov said in the courtroom right after the hearing. He said he couldn't pay the fine and would appeal the verdict, which took Judge Svetlana Alexandrova just over two hours to deliver in a packed and sweltering courtroom.

Alexandrova said she took into account the defendants' ages and families in deciding against incarcerating them.

The curators were convicted for their 2007 exhibit entitled "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist and Nobel peace prize laureate Andrei Sakharov.

...Samodurov, who was the museum's director from its founding in 1996 until he stepped down in 2008, had once been convicted of inciting religious hatred and fined the equivalent of $3,600 for an exhibit in 2003 called "Caution: Religion!"

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