Today’s Google homepage celebrated the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, but, as this video reveals, Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster celebrated Google in song form 27 years ago.

Yes, technically the song is about Cookie Monsters googly eyes, but somehow it could still be a tribute to the search engine giant, even if it was filmed 16 years before the company even existed. [Official Google Blog via Techie]

Heavy Haulers follows a family of structural movers as they race against the clock and battle extreme odds to move mansions, trains, planes, churches and ships hundreds of miles over treacherous terrain. No structure is too large for monster movers Jeremy Patterson, wife Tonya, 12-year old son Greg and 9-year old daughter Ashley, who built the business from the ground up and now move over 350 structures per year. The pilot episode follows the family’s brave attempt to shift a 400-ton brick mansion five miles across Iowa under extreme weather conditions.

The pilot shows the Patterson moving a 400-ton brick mansion across Iowa, under extreme weather. Why and how the hell do you move an entire 400-ton brick mansion? I guess I’d have to tune in for the answer. American Chopper season six premieres on TLC this Thursday at 10PM. [American Chopper via TV Squad]

His collection of 30 hauntingly similar shots show what adult birds are feeding to their young: bottlecaps, lighters, spray bottles and, in one case, a piece of what looks to be a headphone.

From the photographer:

On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

It’s gross stuff, to say the least. Hopefully, if you’re buying every USB foot warmer cigarette lighter that Brando releases, you’re disposing of your plastics in a more sustainable way. (But really, in case it wasn’t clear, we don’t expect you to actually buy any of this junk…) [chris jordan via Treehugger]

The D300s was mounted to the front of the hang glider and fitted with a 10.5mm fisheye lens. A custom hardwired trigger and release mechanism was used to fire both video and stills.

Of course, the $US1800 D300s now has some serious semi-pro competition from the $US1900 Canon 7D. And the 7D is an 18-megapixel, 1080p video beast. Click through the links above for our in-depth primers. [YouTube via CrunchGear]

That man is filmmaker Ed Wardle. He’s been followed by National Geographic for about three months and all that equipment in the image is what’s been documenting the whole thing. The documentary is called Alone in the Wild, and it’s kind of like Man Vs. Wild except, you know, without the script.

There’s also a Twitter feed, which produced gems like this one: “PORCUPINE LIKE A FATTY FOREST RAT. IF I HAD A CHOICE WHATS BETR 4 ME HERE, FAT OR MEAT?” Apparently being in the wild requires caps lock to be on at all times, lest the bears no longer fear you and attack. [National Geographic via Dark Roasted Blend]

It’s Burning Man 2005!

Giz reader Dean sent in a slew of aerial photos from the event four years ago after reading our post on the retro rocket being erected in Nevada this year.

These pics are cool because, as many of you know we dig aeroplanes here at Gizmodo, and Burning Man just so happens to have had its own fully functional airport since 1999.

That’s a good thing, because it gives us some nice bird’s eye shots of this immense event.

It’s true. We (being astronomers and people far smarter than I) really don’t know. But we do know where this mysterious event took place: One million kilometers away, in Saturn’s F ring.

The pic was snapped by a school bus sized gadget we call Cassini. It’s been orbiting Saturn since 2004, and the wealth of data, photos and knowledge beamed back to us in that timeframe is nothing short of amazing.

But this latest snapshot is an enigma. Something punched through the F ring, violently spewing a plume of dust, ice and rock out into the nothingness—but what?

Even more mysterious is the bright spot left in the object’s wake. Icy crystals laid bare for the Sun’s rays? A new material? A cosmic mooning from some alien prankster? Possibly, but whatever it is, it’s yet another reminder of how violent and unexpected space can be.

Isn’t that right, Jupiter? [Bad Astronomy]