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Steampunk Laptop. Image via Pashasha

Weirdness is a wide-spread, ubiquitous phenomenon. Keep your eyes peeled and you’ll find it in a far-away city of Karaganda, narrow streets of ancient China, even across the street from where you are right now. In today’s Weekly Glee, I have collected links, pictures, and articles of all things weirdtastic! Enjoy!

• Strange Restaurants

A Swiss restaurant that serves meals prepared with human breast milk?! Believe it! “We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?”, says the owner, Hans Locher. Can’t go against that kind of logic!

World’s Top 10 Strangest Restaurants – with gorgeous pictures.

• Extreme Ironing

Extreme Ironing: a new sport

Extreme Ironing (or EI) is not a joke. It’s an actual sport which makes people iron clothing in extreme locations such as: under water, on a frozen lake, while rock-climbing and parachuting! According to the official website, EI is “the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.”

While it’s obviously tongue-in-cheek, EI usually involves quite a bit of physical activity. See for yourself!

• Nontraditional Weddings

As a fan of all things unorthodox, I adore traditional ceremonies performed by non-conformist folk. Like this wedding!

Of course, nothing will ever be able top Marilyn Manson and Dita von Teese’s wedding for me! AMAZING pictures here and here.

• Mysterious People

Alexandra David-Neel: Tibetan mystic

I may have linked to this site before, but it never gets old! Recommended reads: Princess Caraboo, The Mystery of the Green Children, Aleister Crowley.

• Weird Art Projects
  

Image via Rakka

Ok, this is not the weirdest art I’ve ever been, BUT – you’ve got to admit, carving a picture of Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna Hayward into an old book is pretty freakin’ weird (in a good way)!

• Steampunk

Steampunk is a gothic subculture combining elements of Victorian and sci-fi. Voltaire talks about Steampunk along with a couple of other kids – all dressed up to the nines, of course! Fascinating!

• Future Depictions
  

The future that never was: Flying Police

24 cards were created in 1910, depicting Paris in the year 2000 (that’s 8 years ago). I found especially funny how the author thought we’d have flying firemen, “car” shoes, and fully-automatic robot barber shops, but our fashions would stay the same. :) More awesome illustrations here!

In the same vein: Top 87 Bad Predictions.

“If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.” – David Riesman, conservative American social scientist, 1967.

“I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.” – Charles Darwin, in the foreword to his book, The Origin of Species, 1869.

“It will be gone by June.” – Variety, passing judgement on rock ‘n roll in 1955.

Deerlings: share your weirdness with us!