2. Trampoline gymnast Dakota Earnest

3. Sprinter Wallace Spearmon

4. Beach volleyball players April Ross and Jen Kessy

5. Freestyle wrestler Jordan Burroughs

6. Gymnast Nastia Liukin

7. Fencer Alexander Massialas

8. Brendan Hansen of the US Swimming team

9. Swimmer Natalie Coughlin

10. Decathete Trey Hardee

11. Sprinter Sanya Richards-Ross

2. …Jake explains: My objective was to capture the action and intensity of such a simple and graceful act, such as falling through the sky. I accomplished this by uniformly wrapping parts of my own body with tape, which were later assembled into the skydiver.

3. Abigail Colety from Austin, Texas won $1,000 as runner-up for Game Night, a depiction of two people playing draughts, made using 9 rolls of tape

4. Three sculptures tied for second runner-up: The Creation of Adam Artist by Gavin M Puyallup, Wa. It took two weeks to make

5. Tight Rope Tape Walker Artist by Michelle N, Louisville, KY, made from 12 rolls of tape (another second runner-up)

6. One Octopus Band by Lila F from Omaha, Ne, using 55 rolls of Scotch Packaging Tape (another second runner-up). The octopus 660 tape suction cups and the sculpture has movable parts like trumpet valves, flute keys & fishing line strings.

7. Come play with me by Tania B, Cape Coral, Fl. Made from six rolls of Scotch Shipping Tape.

8. Jumpin-Jack by William B, Cape Coral, Fl, made from three rolls of Scotch Packing tape.

9. Unlimited MPG by Michael H, Carmel, Ca, made from six rolls of Scotch Heavy Duty Shipping Tape

10. King of the Jungle by Natasha M, Champlin, Mn

11. Family Vacation by Bryson G, Lincoln, Ne, made using 164 rolls of Scotch tape.

12. Take a Seat and Fly Away by Alexis E, River Vale, NJ

13. Spiderman by Hillary G, from Diamond, Mo

14. Under the Sea at University by Natasha P, Pittsburgh, PA. mermaid, seahorse, turtle, jellyfish and squid made with 26 rolls of Scotch tape

15. Full of Hot Air by Dona S, Colorado Springs. The sculpture features a faux fire to fill the balloon with hot air and lights to make it glow

1. If the Earth was 10ft closer to the sun…

2. The most dangerous amusement park in American history

Action Park was an amusement park, open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jerseyat the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, now known as Mountain Creek. It featured three separate attraction areas: an alpine slide, Motorworld, and Waterworld. The latter was one of the first American waterparks.^[1] Many of Action Park’s attractions were unique, attracting thrill-seekers from across the New York City metro area.

3. Man Killed After Giving Flowers from Wal-Mart for Mother’s Day 

Evetta Wright said she was puzzled when she got a call early Monday from her son. Not long before,  around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, she’d dropped Clifton “JR” Barkin off at his house after taking him to Wal-Mart to buy flowers and a Mother’s Day card for Paige Parkerson, the mother of Barkin’s two small children.

4. Fashion Like clothing hangers, tally up online Facebook ‘Likes’ with clothes available to buy on the shop floor.

We’re impressed with C&A Brazil’s new FashionLike clothing hangers, which tally up online Facebook ‘Likes’ with clothes available to buy on the shop floor.

5. A generation hobbled by the soaring cost of college

Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life insurance policy on her daughter.

6. Fiat Photo Bombs Volkswagen With Elaborate Street View Prank

Well played, Fiat. By paying attention to when Google’s fleet of camera cars were snooping around Södertälje, where Volkswagen’s Swedish operations are headquartered, Fiat zinged their rival good. How? By parking a Fiat 500 right in front of the front door when Google’s Street View cars were out.

7. Newlywed, still in wedding dress, found dead in bathtub 2 days after wedding

The last time her family saw Estrella Carrera, she had just gotten married to the father of her youngest child. They started getting worried the next day when the 26-year-old Carrera failed to pick up the child, a 2-year-old boy, and her 9-year-old daughter. On Sunday, a sister called police.

8. The pilot who shot down his own plane.

An 18-year-old Utah man was arrested on suspicion of burglary after police say he left his homework at the crime scene. Police in Orem say they tracked a USB drive found at the burglarized home to Dallas Naljahih. They say the computer hard drive contained his homework and was in a backpack abandoned in the backyard.

9. Elementary school tells students they can’t use acronyms in each other’s yearbooks

Many of their friends have cell phones and Facebook accounts, and in August, they’ll be in middle school. They’re tweens, but sound mature beyond their years. Still, fifth graders at one north Fulton County elementary school were surprised they were told they couldn’t write just anything in each other’s yearbooks. If they wanted the yearbooks, they’d have to first sign a pledge that they wouldn’t use acronyms or draw pictures while signing the books.

10. Paratrooper blew out his knees and back with too many jumps. Could hardly walk, so he “gave up” and put on a lot of weight. Then a yoga instructor took him under his wing, and with sheer effort, this ex-paratrooper underwent an AMAZING transformation. Truly inspirational non-bullshit story.

1. I was eating a hash brown from McDonald’s on the way home when I felt something on the bottom…

2. Scrap metal collector in Chicago – I think I’ll go ahead and change lanes now.

3. Came across this in my literature book at school…

4. The Potato of Outer Space

5. You’re my national treasure

6. Air filter I pulled out of a car, the customer said he did NOT want it replaced

7. The only mannequin in Goodwill.

8. I see your YOLO tattoo…

9. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor & Chainsaw Repair, Night Club

10. Found in the forest, far from the sea

2. The ‘SKYWALKERS’ of Russia!

3. Lake jump at the Tour de France

4. Slackline Hammok for those who need a break 

5. Doing a Backflip on Trolltunga in Norway 

6. Altitude awareness at 5,000ft. 

7. Me Cliff Jumping, Gloucester MA, USA 

8. Ian Killik mid-crash at Sunpeaks Bike Park. Photo by Allan McVicar.

9. Travis Pastrana. Huge jump.

10. Bat hanging on a highline 

11. The Wedge, Newport, Ca 

12. Austen Sweetin playing with fire

13. Jeremy Thompson on the cover of Onboard Snowboarding Magazine taking on an epic wall ride

14. James Cox at Redbull Storm Chase October 06

15. Cross-Country Skiing in Blizzard

2. Flying Horse – Gatorrada (Cat-Toast)

3. Pixar studio stories – The movie vanishes (full)

4. Name 10 Things That Aren’t Skrillex

5. Animaniacs

6. 5 Year Old Girl Picks A Master Lock in Under A Minute

7. Peter Popoff – Miracle Spring Water

8. CCD: The heart of a digital camera

9. Pump Action Slingshot Crossbow!

10. siberian husky puppy gets head stuck in box

2. The high-heeled shoes belonging to Nicolas Sarkozy are seen as he welcomes Francois Hollande to the Elysee Palace in Paris

3. Valerie Trierweiler, companion of France’s newly-elected President Francois Hollande, arrives on the red carpet in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace

4. France’s outgoing First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcomes Valerie Trierweiler, companion of France’s newly-elected President Francois Hollande, on the steps of the Elysee Palace

5. Nicolas Sarkozy salutes his successor as Carla Bruni kisses Valerie Trierweiler, companion of the French President-elect

6. Guests arrive at the Elysee Palace for the handover ceremony

7. France’s newly-elected President Francois Hollande and his companion Valerie Trierweiler watch outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leaving the Elysee Palace

8. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the Elysee Palace after the handover ceremony

9. Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy leave the Elysee Palace after the handover ceremony

10. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy waves as she leaves the Elysee Palace with outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy

1. George Lucas abandons plan to build movie studio in hoity-toity Marin County; decides instead to build low-income housing 

George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he’s done in years. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and has spent the past few years trying to transform the ranch on it into a massive, nearly 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art movie studio complete with day care center, restaurant, gym and a 200-car garage. His neighbors, however, have rejected it every step of the way.

2. Delightful Dolls’ Houses That Look Like Miniature Mansions

Barbie, eat your heart out. There’s not a glimpse of pink plastic among the small but perfectly formed exhibits on display at the Kensington Dollshouse Festival, May 11 – May 13.

3. Author and legendary conservationist Lawrence Anthony (The elephant whisperer) died March 7. His family tells of a solemn procession on March 10 that defies human explanation.

For 12 hours, two herds of wild South African elephants slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.The formerly violent, rogue elephants, destined to be shot a few years ago as pests, were rescued and rehabilitated by Anthony, who had grown up in the bush and was known as the “Elephant Whisperer.”

4. Fisherman sues cruise line after 28 days stranded at sea, saying they should have stopped and saved him

An 18-year-old Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift at sea is suing Princess Cruise Lines, arguing that one of its cruise ships should have stopped and saved him. A negligence lawsuit filed in Florida last week says the behavior of officers or crew members of the Star Princess was “outrageous and, under the circumstances, so beyond all bounds of decency as to be regarded as shocking, atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”

5. Archaeologists have stumbled upon an astronomer’s workshop in the buried city of Xultun

Archaeologists working in one of the most impenetrable rain forests in Guatemala have stumbled on a remarkable discovery: a room full of wall paintings and numerical calculations. The buried room apparently was a workshop used by scribes or astronomers working for a Mayan king. The paintings depict the king and members of his court. The numbers mark important periods in the Maya calendar.

6. Fruit truck bursts into flames on I-95 – It’s A Flavor Explosion!

If you were heading west from eastern or central Connecticut Sunday on Interstate 95, you may have been stuck in some of the gridlock that ensued after this truck, featured in a host of Report-It photos sent to WTNH, burst into flames. The trailer was gutted after becoming engulfed in flames on the exit 52 on-ramp, WTNH reported.

7. Hormones cause women to choose a George Clooney or James Bond type over average-looking guys who might make better fathers, says a researcher from the University of Texas at No Fucking Shit.

Women choose bad boys because their hormones make them, new research suggests. When ovulating a woman’s hormones influence who she sees as good potential fathers, and they specifically pick sexier men over obviously more dependable men.

8. The Awkwardness Of Puberty In 7 Seconds

This guys friends must really not like him to have posted this on youtube for all to see. Boy I am glad that I’m done with that awkward stage.

9. Remember the famous Guy with blue skin (because he ate colloidal silver)… well he is homeless now  

Paul Karason shocked the world four years ago as a man who turned his skin the color blue. Karason appeared on INSIDE EDITION, Oprah and the Today show.
But what ever happened to Karason, the guy who will forever be known as Blue Man?Sadly, he’s fallen on hard times. Karason even lost his home and had no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. Karason told INSIDE EDITION, “I really had no other place to go.”

10. Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework? You’re entering a world of pain, son. You’re killing your father, Larry. You might want to look out that window

An Orem teen is likely kicking himself for doing his homework and then allegedly leaving it at the scene of a crime. Orem police said they were called early Saturday morning to a home near 900 South and 50 East by a homeowner who woke to find a prowler in his home. When the 75-year-old resident went to investigate, he stumbled upon the 18-year-old rifling through his desk. The teen then punched the resident in the face and fled, police said.

1. My biggest fear. Nooopee i’ll never bungee jump

2. Japanese Textbooks tell it as it is

3. Smile for the camera!

4. Seriously, WTF does this mean?

5. Those are mosquitoes … imagine if they were aggressive

6. This is supposed to make me want to buy bread…

7. ”I will suck it.”

8. ”Abnormal”

9. Anime Eyes

10. Now here’s a bus ad that will catch your attention!

2. Antonov AN-225

3. New York Fire Department Steam Pumper

4. USS Iowa battleship (built ca. 1940) demonstrating her firepower 

5. Concorde landing gear and brake assembly 

6. PET Scanner during installation 

7. Tank cut in half. It is a british Centurion Mark 3. at The Tank Museum, Bovington – England 

8. Steam engine inside a locomotive

9. The U.S. Air Force AFSWC ‘Beetle’

10. Pratt & Whitney FT4 Gas Turbine

11. Ultima GTR Engine

12. Bruker AXS Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer 

13. Machine for a barbecue and fireplace, Restaurante Praga

14. An Austro-Hungarian steam engine, made in 1912, carrying Polish State Railways livery

15. Grande Napoli

16. The Worlds Largest Engine Kempton water works

17. Just a small lab robot, with lots of heaters.

18. Motorlet M-701 jet engine

19. Northrop Grumman CRJ700 N804X with lots of interesting attachments on short final for Runway 33L at BWI 

20. A vehicle made to live in – Winnebago Brave 

21. Porsche PFM 3200 aircraft engine 

22. USS Little Rock HDR – Buffalo, NY

23. Lyulka AL-21 engine from Sukhoi Su-24 

24. Pere Marquette 1225, 2-8-4 (Berkshire) steam locomotive at Owosso Michigan

25. Stone Brewery Company: the pipes – Escondido, CA