Steph came across this really odd story from boingboing.net about a mini cloaca gadget which, I guess sits in your office, living room, or or on your desk and makes shit from food.The story says that this gadget is from artist Wim Delvoye, and is his latest installation of his Cloaca series. This model is called the "Mini Cloaca

At least 20 bald eagles reportedly died in Kodiak, Alaska, after becoming mired in a truckload of fish guts.The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Saturday that about 50 eagles descended on the uncovered truck Friday when it left a garage at the Ocean Beauty Seafoods plant.Federal wildlife officials said that while gorging themselves, the birds pushed each other into the heavy, thick, goo and were drowned, buried and crushed

Brian for Cornell University alerted me to a new video that appeared on CNN this morning. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2008/01/05/mi.cat.poo.coffee.beans.wzzm Cat poop coffee, or kopi luwak -- otherwise known as the most expensive coffee in the world -- is, according to wiki, coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)

But the real news is that his brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, lives here, and his wife is a student in veterinary medicine at Kansas State.Who knew.He not only played Lou Loomis in Caddyshack, which made his brother Bill famous, he co-wrote the script with Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney. What about that turn in Wayne's World? And the numerous characters on the Canadian television version of Second City TV

"Warning: Idiot holding dog."And it gets better. Mentalfloss reports on what it calls a rather aggressive warning sign for dog walkers in Sarasota and the potential risks of crapping on this particular lawn.

Chefs in the coastal Peruvian capital of Lima have turned guinea pig  -- a staple protein of the Andes -- into a gourmet dish.The Associated Press reports that five years ago, chef Marilu Madueno added cuy, as guinea pigs are locally known, to the menu at La Huaca Pucllana, an exclusive Lima restaurant popular with tourists that overlooks a pre-Inca temple

Propellor.com has posted what it deems to be the Top 10 Poop Movie Scenes. Below is the list of movies. You can visit propellor.com for pics and descriptions. And I've seen all the movies except the last one, Friday.It's hard to argue with the classic simplicity of Caddyshack -- a Baby Ruth chocolate bar in the swimming pool -- but I'll go with Harold and Kumar

Amy and I are visiting family in Anoka, Minnesota, for a couple of days, and everyone gathered tonight for her grandmother's 85th birthday.Oh ya, and the weather's always a popular subject, eh?Same for Paul Smokov, 84, of Steele, N.D, who looks at pig spleens and predicts: "It looks like a normal year with no major storms

Fifty-six-year-old Shelton Stewart, a former New York doorman who slipped on a pile of pigeon droppings on a subway station's stairs in 1998, has been awarded $6 million in compensation.The New York Post reports that the trial took three weeks, but the jury took less than a day to award Stewart $7.67 million in damages