Positively Puzzled

Rogue? idk watch big wave go over sea wall in rio del mar Originally uploaded by jgholmes2000 Chance documentation of a surprise local rogue wave event Rio Del Mar State Beach. "this storm came thru feb 24 2008 with 60 mph winds and 15 -20 ft waves. I went down to beach to try and record some of the waves, when what seemed to be a small wave just kept coming and coming. i luckily jumped on a wall and saved myself a soaking." ─J.G. Holmes Original Video on Flickr jgholmes2000

Gabe cracks up over balloon tapping Originally uploaded by I, Puzzled Flickr started accepting videos recently, and that got me to dig this old one up, always good for jumpstarting the old laughbox. From September 6, 2003

Foggy Morning , originally uploaded by I, Puzzled . Movies I've watched recently... Baby Face (1933) The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) Duck Soup (1933) Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) Horton Hears a Who (2008) Amores Perros (2000) Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Spirited Away (2001) Bullitt (1968) Planet of the Apes (1968)

Broken sections of a marble statue were discovered on the Aegean island of Melos by Kostas Ephialtes a farmer plowing his wheat field. The five distinct pieces form two arms, with the right holding a shield; the other holds a mirror. The farmer immediately contacted authorities, astounded by what he was sure he had found: the arms of the famous Venus de Milo. After a preliminary examination, experts are all but certain that the arm fragments match. The Venus de Milo was sculpted in the 2nd Century BC as a depiction of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. She was lost to the world for centuries before she was unearthed and became possibly the most famous statue in the world. The main body of the statue was discovered by another farmer on Melos, named Yorgos. It was 1820, and at that time, the island was under Turkish occupation. He found the statue and decided that her beauty was too great to give to the authorities, as was the law, so he hid her in his barn. Soon the authorities disc...