The weekly weird

Published July 26, 2014

The toaster selfie has arrived!

MAKING selfie is a new craze which is growing with each passing day and for those who really can’t get enough of themselves here is a new gadget in town just for them —toaster selfie.

Now you can eat your own face every morning with the toaster selfie. The customisable kitchen appliance, which has been developed by a US firm allows you to burn a picture of yourself onto a slice.

Simply send a selfie to Vermont-based Burnt Impressions and have your personal mugshot toaster within a week. The company behind the creation says on its website: “We are good, but remember fine detail is darn near impossible to achieve with heat and toast.

“If we squint and can’t see your face, we will cancel [the] order and refund your purchase.”


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Water mite named after Jennifer Lopez

BEING a celebrity is quite fascinating, there are parties, shows, people name their products after you, etc., but sometimes things go beyond your expectation just like Jennifer Lopez who must be pretty shocked that a group of biologists have named a newly discovered species of water mite after her.

The water mite was discovered nearly 70m (230ft) deep in the Mona Passage – a treacherous stretch of water that separates Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. And it has been named Litarachna lopezae, in honour of superstar Jennifer Lopez.

Vladimir Pesic of the University of Montenegro explains: “the reason behind the unusual choice of name for the new species is … simple: J-Lo’s songs and videos kept the team in a continuous good mood when writing the manuscript.”


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Want to see your favourite idol in pizza?

SOME artists create with pencils, while others sculpt from clay, but Domenico Crollauses does it from dough, tomato sauce and cheese, for he is the world’s premiere pizza artist.

Working out of his Glaswegian restaurant Bella Napoli, the Scots-born Italian creates his tasty edible artworks. According to his website Domenico ‘oozes so much personality, and such a passion for Italian cuisine, that it is hard to believe no talent scouts have snapped him up to host his own TV show… yet.’

The celebrity faces in cheese and tomato dressing look awesome and one cannot make out between a real picture and a pizza.


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Once in a blue moon!

NATURE is awesome as well as weird. An Alaska fisherman, Frank McFarland was left stunned when he looked into the pot of crabs he’d just caught and found one of them was blue.

Since then this rare blue-coloured red king crab has become something of a local celebrity, with people showing up to take photos with it at the Norton Sound Seafood Centre, where it is being kept until Mr McFarland can have it mounted.

Scott Kent of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Nome, told that he has no idea why the red king crab is blue, though he guesses it is a mutation.

“A blue crab turns up once in a blue moon,” he said.

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