I just have to mention that Saturday and Sunday, March 6-7, were the annual "Frozen Dead Guy DaysŪ" in Nederland, Colo. Every year the residents and tourists celebrate, well... a frozen dead guy. You can read about the background story here. The FDG-fest itself included a coffin race, polar plunge, a parade of hearses, a frozen salmon toss, live music and "tons of family friendly fun for all ages!" Read more at the Nederland Chamber of Commerce website.

Point and laugh, part 2

The Internet is truly a goldmine of weirdness, where unusual people can be immortalized for -- well, if not forever, at least long enough for many people to get a good chuckle.

With the proliferation of cell phone cameras, anyone anywhere can capture those priceless what-the-heck, what-were-they-thinking moments on the go.

For the people-watchers out there, poorlydressed.com is a delightful gallery of fashion-challenged or clueless individuals. Too-short shorts abound on people whose bodies shouldn't have a single inch of skin bared, not to mention questionable tastes in swim suits, shoes, coats and much, much more. You wouldn't want your 5-year-old seeing some of these photos.

There are more hair don'ts at flickr.

Who'd have thought eyebrows would have a gallery of their own? See "Love your eyebrows" at list of the day.

Aaaaand ... eyebrow wigs. Enough said.

Attention fashionistas: The fashion police are on patrol. See the latest "crimes of fashion" here.

A conspiracy of theories

As the whole world knows by now, the Saints beat the Colts in the Super Bowl. But ... was it for real? Dyson Kincaid at bleacherreport.com runs down some of the top Super Bowl conspiracies circulating among the fans.

By the way, one of my favorite "old standby" conspiracy theories are those that abound on the topic of water fluoridation. I think the best one I'd come across was that the fluoride makes people susceptible to government / communist / alien subliminal orders. Well I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords. Here's a rundown on wikipedia.

Multi-hued comestibles

For fans of the rainbow cake (blogged here), how about rainbow pancakes? I took a look and thought, "To get all the colors in, you have to have a HUGE stack of flapjacks!" But, of course, you can make teeny little pancakes, I suppose. Or get even more creative and make multicolored ones by pouring first one color, then another on top of the first. Maybe I'm overthinking this stuff ...

Headline-ese and crash blossoms

In the newspaper biz, we occasionally get a little obsessed with trying to say as much as possible in a very limited space. Thus, the birth of "headline-ese," like the classic headline, "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms."

This phenomenon has been dubbed "crash blossoms," and you can read why it got that name here. For examples of these unintentionally funny headlines, there's crashblossoms.com.

Of course, these things continually evolve. Now there's a new species: crash possums.

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"Reality is frequently inaccurate."

-- Douglas Adams