If you’re headed to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in June, watch out for a herd of, er, goats. Slated to provide “sustainable vegetation management grazing services” in a two-year $100,000 contract awarded to a Chicago-based company, they’ll be grazing on weeds and invasive plants on the 120 acres or so weedy grounds there.

The arragement will supposedly save the airport hefty landscape maintenance costs for fuel, labour, herbicides and miscellaneous equipment. Here’s hoping the hooved ones will at least get ear plugs or some sort of sound protection for their sonic welfare.

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In the latest Tumblr instalment of whatever-will-they-think-of-next, we’ve spied Beyonce Art History, which mashes up lyrics from the pop diva’s tunes, meme-style, with timeless paintings and artworks from humanity’s illustrious art history. The blog was started by Leigh Silver, an arts and culture intern at Huffington Post. It’s rather clever.

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Earlier this year, comedian Kurt Braunohler ran a Kickstarter appeal to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things with clouds in the sky”. He raised $6,820 out of the $4,000 he asked for. The result is this beautiful skywritten piece of work. Enjoy.

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Sometimes the best things in life are of the simplest, most mundane kind, like this collection of six second clips, known in iSpeak as Vines, of Ryan Gosling refusing his cereal.

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Hey kids, let’s go spider shopping! If you’re a leather-clad, head-banging metal fiend, your pet of choice is surely the tarantula. But if you want to go the extra mile, that tarantula must be … wait for it … the Poecilotheria Metallica, aka The Most Badass Pet Of All Time. And if its name isn’t ass-kickin’ enough, consider this: its colour scheme was evidently inspired by Metallica’s Ride The Lightning album. Shut up and take my money!

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Sometimes humor at the simplest form can really hit the spot. Check out these funny monkey faces and brighten your day. I think the descriptions are just as funny as the pictures, and also somewhat informative on why the monkey looks the way it does.

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Nekofont. The internet is powered by cats, so you might as well write in cats too. If you’re secretly 8, like me, you’ll want to test it out with swears. Then you can get on with your life. (Not really, because you are writing words with cats).

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Creative agency Designbysoap were commissioned by a client to take a cold, hard look at the lifestyle habits of superheroes and comic book characters, then thought about whether they possessed regenerative powers, are human or immortal, and if they have died in a plot. The result is this rad infographic tabulating scores for how long they’ll live.

The verdict ranges from 60 years for Daredevil (“… a big risk taker and a drinker, meaning he’s likely to die around 60”) to 1,000+ years for Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer and Thor. Superman is placed in second spot with 750 good years ahead of him (“… has regenerative powers and only one weakness, giving him a very long lifespan”).

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What happens when you combine the art of shaping a Bonsai Tree with the powerful strength of a Redwood? You get a little Bonsai Redwood tree. Now you can nurture the world’s largest tree in a small pot on your bedside table. Take a look at the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society to get a small taste of the mini Redwood growing culture. Many of these little trees are older than me.

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This 105-year-old Texan woman really knows how to throw a party! For her 105th birthday, she organized a three-day event with over 200 guests. And not only does she still party, she also loves mowing her lawn and dancing. What’s the secret to this great-grandmother’s good health? Bacon. Despite the negative health-effects typically associated with the fatty meat, she claims that bacon has given her longevity and great health. Oscar Mayer loved her story so much that they sent the Wienermobil to her door with a special bacon delivery.

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Thanks to a paper that gleaned geolocation data from 1,535,929,521 tweets from 71,273,997 unique users in Oct 23-Nov 30 last year, some fabulous maps showing a month in the life of Twitter were generated. The world of Twitter, as you can see, is beautiful.

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That’s right, some wonderfully talented and imaginative people teamed up with school kids to make a twenty foot balloon Acrocanthosaurus for display at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Using a real skeleton of the dinosaur as a guide, they tried to make it as realistic as possible. However, nobody really knows what their skin looked like, so for all we know, this dinosaur could have been tie-dye.

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If you’ve ever wanted to send letters to your future self — or someone else — but never knew how to for obvious logistical reasons, now you can. In Shanghai, you can locate one of these crafty postcard cafes and post a card as far into the future as you like. There are 365 different boxes, one for each day of the coming year, and if you’d like to send your postcard anytime further into the future, you’ll just have to locate the postal box for that year. Let’s hope the cafes never go out of business — and hold your mail hostage in the process.

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The Enterprise, or er, franchise, has an updated offering for communication-hungry Trekkies: personalized Star Trek email addresses. Yes, this means that for $15 a year, your emails can now boldly go where no email has gone before. You can choose to be part of the indispensable Starfleet crew with a Starfleet.com address, be brave and risk bounced emails with ToBoldlyGo.com, or simply get their USSEnterprise1701.com credentials. Comes with unlimited email storage too. The Star Trek Universe is indeed vast.

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If you want to be destructive, you better be creative at it. This may sound to some of you like an oxymoron, but it’s apparently not. I love these beautifully executed hate mail postcards by Mr Bingo for the very fact that he’s managed to turn something so negative into something that is fun.

He explains on his website how the project itself came to life: ‘Last year I sent a postcard to a stranger called Jonathan Hopkins. It said on it “F*ck you Jonathan, f*ck you and f*ck your sh*t legs”. People seemed to be into it so I opened a service on my website, inviting strangers to pay me in return for an offensive postcard addressed to them (or whoever they ordered it for).I persevered with the project and now with over 400 ‘Hate Mails’ under my belt’.

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This is Dieter Besuch. He has an incredibly unique talent. He can grow beards and sideburns like nobody’s business. And everyone in Germany knows it. Say hello to the winner of the International German Beard Championship 2013. Besuch won gold in the Whiskers Freestyle category and we can all see why. This man is awesome.

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In a fun ‘what-if’ twist, History TV channel Yesterday recently worked with a bunch of digital artists to give famous historical figures a 21st-century makeover. The results are amusing: Shakespeare looks positively preppy in his checkered shirt and flannel vest, while Marie Antoinette looks like a fidgety socialite. So, if clothes maketh the man, it explains why we can hardly recognise any of these people in their contemporary garb.

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So, this is it: ‘The wisdom of rappers quantified’. These mini-infographics by Srahhh will get you guessing the song origins from whence they sprung. Hint: there’s a bit of BIG, a bit of MC Hammer, a bit of Nelly and a bit of Coolio.

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We had to laugh when we saw these print ads for Nikol window-cleaning wet wipes the other day. Really digging how the ad folks at Gitam BBDO brought the ‘Stop using newspapers‘ idea to life by squishing the faces of politicians — always news-worthy subjects — against window panes.

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I recently picked up a copy of Cabinets of Wonder by Christine Davenne, which showcases extremely curious and often extravagant collections of eclectic oddities in homes and museums. Also referred to as ‘wunderkammer’, these cabinets hail from a centuries-old tradition in Europe during the Renaissance. Christine Fleurent shot more than 180 photographs for the book. These include skulls, hunting trophies, Egyptian artifacts and the alleged remains of mythological creatures. The pages are worth a good nosing around in.

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