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• The Nenets Of Siberia

  

  image credit In arctic northern Russia, industrialized resource extraction and climate change are presenting a double threat to the Nenets, an indigenous... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Austrian Alpacas Show Shear Delight

  

  image credit An alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South America. It resembles a small llama in appearance. Alpacas on a farm in Goeming,... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 RANDOM

• Murphy Was Here

  Even on a beautiful day things don't always tend to go right. When a minigolfer misses his most important shot he unleashes a chain reaction of bad, yet... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• How Popular Is Your Name In England And Wales?

  

  Baby names are becoming increasingly diverse as more parents follow celebrities with bizarre monikers such as Nevaeh - or heaven spelt backwards, new research... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 RANDOM

• Dentist Pulls All Of Ex-Boyfriend's Teeth Out After Getting Dumped

  

  image credit Revenge is a dish best served with novocaine. Anna Mackowiak, a dentist in Poland dumped by her boyfriend, got payback by removing all of her... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIETY

• Forty Thieves Solitaire

  

  is a game by Mark Klocek. The goal of the game is to move all the cards to the 8 foundation piles located in the upper right corner. The foundation piles are... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 RANDOM

• Hunter And Bear's Birthday Party

  A Tipp-Ex advertisement. The Hunter and the Bear are celebrating the latter's birthday party when they see an earth-destroying meteor in the sky above them. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 6 Geographical Terms With Shortest Names In The World

  

  image credit Have you heard of the river with the name 'D,' or a village with the name 'Å?' There are a small number of geographic terms in the world, whose... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 RANDOM

• How To Draw A Cartoon R2D2

  

  May 4 is called Star Wars Day because of the popularity of a common pun spoken on this day. Since the phrase 'May the Force be with you' is a famous quote... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Worst Things For Sale

  

  is a website with a weird mix of all kinds of real items that are for sale at online stores. Everything from fake medicine to dog clothing to mirrors that cost... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Top 10 Rarest Flowers In The World

  

  image credit To classify the top ten rarest flowers isn't easy especially since more than 270,000 types of flowers exist. Of those that are rare, here are not... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 ENVIRONMENT, GARDENING

• Newsjack

  

  See that message at the left side in the picture above? Well, that isn't true. I just made that with NewsJack, a media remixing tool built from Mozilla's... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Google's Latest Easter Egg

  

  Go to Google and perform a search for 'Zerg Rush.' It will start off as an innocent search result listing but you will soon realise each result is part of a gam... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 RANDOM

• Modern Living Neurotica Series

  

  Modern Living Neurotica is a series of interactive, sometimes surrealistic, animations created by Han Hoogerbrugge, a Dutch digital artist. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 RANDOM

• Rocking-2-Gether Chair

  

  The rocking-2-gether chair, designed by Paul Kweton, is a hybrid between a rocking chair and dog/cat house. The prototype chair is made out of CNC milled birch... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 PETS, RANDOM

• Hummingbirds In Flight

  

  image credit Nothing can quite prepare you for the exquisite sight of a hummingbird on the wing. Nature has truly spoiled us with this spectacle. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• One Man Band

  is a 2005 Pixar animated short film. Written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews and produced by Osnat Shurer. YouTube link (thanks Cora)The Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Health And Beauty Benefits Of Owning A Dog

  

  image credit When your dog bounds towards you with the unbridled excitement equivalent to a celebrity spotting and gives you one big, wet lick on your cheek th... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE, PETS

• Klouchebag

  

  is the standard for measuring asshattery online. It was made in response to Klout, the social-game that assigns you a score based on how 'influential' you are... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• First Pitch By Horror Character

  Japanese long-haired ghost character Sadako Yamamura from the horror movie Ring throws out the opening pitch at a game between the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 BASEBALL, SPORTS