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• 14 Most Inventive Uses For A Bike

  

  You can use a bicycle to get from A to B and save many tonnes of horrific carbon emissions. You could get fit whilst doing so, toning up your calves and... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 RANDOM

• Free Unlimited Rebooting Experience from Vintage Operatin...

  

  Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems. A tribute to the most significant operating systems that have been part of our lives. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 TECH

• 10 Least Plausible Movie Stunts

  

  Complaining about implausibility in Hollywood can be something of a forlorn exercise. What did you expect, reality? Boring. However, some stunts are so far... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• How To Get Out Of Quicksand

  

  image credit Quicksand is a bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to engulf any object restin... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Original Scandinavian Koozie

  

  ! Handmade from a soft sheep wool blend. Keeps your hands warm and your beverage cold! (via Everlasting Blort)The Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 DRINK, FASHION, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE

• 14 Major Risks That Used To Be The Stuff Of Science Fiction

  

  image credit Risk management is a part of our everyday personal and professional lives. We know to look both ways before crossing the street. We also know... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 CURRENT, SCIENCE, SOCIETY

• The Red Ball Project

  

  image credit The Red Ball Project by Chicago-born artist Kurt Perschke is a global art project that exists as a series of temporary installations in a city ove... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, RANDOM

• Scenes Of Dutch Daily Life In 1906

  

  image credit Pictures of the Netherlands taken from a book written in Dutch called De Aarde en Haar Volken (The Earth and Its People) written in 1906. The... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY

• Tumbleweeds

  are plants that break away from their roots and are driven about by the wind as a light rolling mass, scattering seeds as they go. A supercut commissioned by th... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 RANDOM

• Invisible Snow

  December 1, 2011. Quebec, Canada. Snow removal when there is no snow? My guess is they're checking something. But what? Can someone explain this? Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIETY, WEATHER

• 30 Taco Bell Related Crimes

  

  Is there something like a Taco Bell related crime? Oh, yes there is! Taco Bell franchises have an unusually high amount of criminal activity. People will do... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 RANDOM, SOCIETY

• 9 Awesome Hotel Pools

  

  image credit For the cream of the world's hotels, a swimming pool isn't just somewhere to sooth your crisply burnt skin - it's a focal point. A point of... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 TRAVEL, VACATION

• Chimpanzee Adopted By A Mastiff

  

  Two years ago, in one of the Russian zoos, a female chimpanzee for some reason abandoned her baby chimpanzee. When one of the employees of the zoo took the... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, PETS

• Vintage Ice Cream Trucks

  

  image credit Ice cream trucks. What great memories they represent from so many people's childhood years! The sound of those distinctive tunes and melodic... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 FOOD & DRINK, HISTORY

• Extinct Giant Tortoise May Still Be Alive In Galapagos

  

  image credit Genetic traces of a supposedly extinct giant tortoise species have been found in living hybrids on the Galapagos island of Isabela. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Fast Food Chain Serves 'Darth Vader' Burgers

  

  How much force needs to be with you to eat a black burger? The Belgian fast food chain Quick is celebrating the upcoming 'Phantom Menace 3D' movie premiere by... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK

• The Mysteries Of Nature And Art

  

  image credit Julie Gardham, Senior Assistant Librarian at University of Glasgow's Special Collections Department, takes a look at the book that was said to... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 SCIENCE

• Man Charged For Possessing Marijuana And A Knife

  

  A 30-year-old man from Wisconsin, USA, was charged with carrying a concealed knife, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a small amount of marijuana... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Projections

  In celebration of UAE National Day 2011, 44 projectors with a combined brightness of 840,000 lumens were used to cover a surface 600ft wide x 351ft high. Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators

  

  image credit By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, HISTORY