Boing Boing » nightmare fuel http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 14:11:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The fish of nightmares http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/the-fish-of-nightmares.html http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/the-fish-of-nightmares.html#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:43:47 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=220185

This is not a Photoshop job. This is the very real toothy smile of sheepshead fish. It lives in North America, writes Becky Crew at the Running Ponies blog. And, like humans, it has both incisors and molars — perfect for masticating an omnivorous diet. Apparently, they also taste good, which should be some consolation. Worse comes to worse, we can always eat them.

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Phil McCarthy's Pareidoloop overlays randomly generated polygons on top of one another until facial recognition software recognizes a human face. Can't sleep, at SIGGRAPH! [via @Brandonn]]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/08/05/pareidoloop.html/feed 22