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• International Heraldy

  

  image credit Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 HISTORY

• Science Reveals How Not To Spill Your Coffee While Walking

  

  Ever wondered why it's so hard to walk with a cup of coffee without spilling? It just so happens that the human stride has almost exactly the right frequency... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 SCIENCE

• 45 Amazing Examples Of HDR Photography

  

  image credit HDR photography has become extremely popular. High Dynamic Range photography creates an unrealistic effect that amazes you every time. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Classic Car Designer Carroll Shelby Dies At 89

  

  image credit Carroll Shelby, the charismatic Texan who parlayed a short-lived racing career into a specialized business building high-performance,... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 MOTO, SPORTS

• The $1000 Golden Opulence - The Most Expensive Dessert

  The Golden Opulence is a sundae that is served by special order at the New York City restaurant Serendipity 3. In 2007 it was listed in Guinness World Records a... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK

• 13 Loneliest Outhouses On Earth

  

  image credit When you gotta go, you gotta go. And answering nature's call is certainly what the builders of these remote outhouses seem to have had in mind. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Spam Comments

  

  This weblog receives a lot of nonsensical spam comments every day. I'm sure yours does too. Fortunately my content managing system catches most of it but every... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Royal Pain

  is about a palace guard who befriends a pest. The movie is Natalie Wetzig's GC-animated senior film from her studies at CalArts. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The End Of The World In 2012? It's Not Going To Happen

  

  image credit The earliest known Mayan calendar has been found in an ancient house in Xultún in Guatemala and it offers no hint that the world's end is... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 CURRENT, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Well-Known Egyptian Symbol Is Actually An Early Math Problem

  

  image credit Chances are you've seen this symbol before, because it's one of the most well-known Egyptian symbols. It's called the Eye of Horus. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

  

  Cowboy Cartoon by Andertoons Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How To Fold The Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes

  

  image credit There are lots of way to learn first-hand the principles of flight, but most of them require years of studying or a pilot's license. There is,... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 SCIENCE

• Illustrations That Made Edgar Allan Poe's Stories Even More Horrifying

  

  image credit In 1919, everyone wanted a copy of the deluxe edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, but not because it was bound in... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 RANDOM

• Did Farting Kill The Dinosaurs?

  

  While scientists are touting a new study of dinosaur flatulence as a 'major new climate finding,' the media is greeting it with undisguised mirth. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Inside The Kowloon Walled City

  

  image credit Once thought to be the most densely populated place on Earth, with 50,000 people crammed into only a few blocks, these fascinating pictures give a... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 RANDOM

• How To Use An Afghan Box Camera

  The kamra-e-faoree is a hand-made wooden camera; it's both a camera and a darkroom in one. Afghanistan remains one of the last places on earth where... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 PHOTOGRAPHY

• Antipodes Map

  

  In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 RANDOM

• 10 Things You Might Not Know About Maurice Sendak

  

  image credit Last Monday, Maurice Sendak died. He was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He was best known for his book Where the... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 BOOKS, CURRENT

• The Most Hazardous Places In The World

  

  image credit Most cities have a seedy underbelly - hidden dangers that lurk below the surface out of every day sight. Certain places, however, are plagued by... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 RANDOM

• The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder

  

  The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of Elva Zona Heaster, a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, wh... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY