Dominoes, always a favourite elemental for Rube Goldberg-ian device chain reactions, are unsurprisingly the name of the game at last week's Domino Day in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. That is where Robin Paul Weijers (Mr. Domino!) and his helpers (including Dutch girls suspended on harnesses above the action like Tom Cruise stealing a NOC list) rigged up 4.5 million dominoes and then set them a-falling, artfully rendering Che Guevara, a Sarlacc pit, a Saturn V liftoff and subsequent Apollo re-entry, and oh so much more in tumbling plastic. The list of records broken is impressive.

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"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum."
Alright...so these are just 30,000 dominoes stacked up in blocks to look a bit like giant dominoes, and tipped over to create a fab tumbling dominoes-made-from-giant-dominoes video, but you get my point. It's Friday, and the video has a cat in it and makes for good watching. [CollegeHumor]

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