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• Adults Get A Life-Sized Sandbox In Las Vegas

  Las Vegas visitors can now get a bigger taste of a typical backyard sandbox. Dig This, started by business owner Ed Mumm, offers playtime in excavators and... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 DESTINATIONS, RANDOM

• Hungover Owls

  

  image credit Do owls have hungovers? After a night of heavy consuming alcoholic beverages, of course they do! Here's a blog with pictures of hungover owls.The... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Quest For Perpetual Motion

  

  image credit The expression perpetual motion arose historically in connection with the quest for a mechanism which, once set in motion, would continue to do... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 HUMOR, PHYSICS, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• Coffee Jerks

  Shaun Clayton took a series of 1950's and 60's-era coffee commercials from the Prelinger Archives and edited them down to just the moments when the guys were th... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 DEBATE, HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIETY

• Freddie Mercury Is Celebrated With Animated Google Doodle

  

  Freddie Mercury, British musician, singer, songwriter, and lead vocalist of the rock band Queen, was born Faroukh Bulsara in Zanzibar. He died on November 24,... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC, TECH

• Khadafi Family Life Revealed

  

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  Posted on 05 September 2011 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Flags Of Every Country In The World

  

  A map showing flags of every country in the world. Flag description is produced from actual flags or the best information available at the time the entry was... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 CULTURE

• Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

  

  image credit Did you know that you live in the past? About 80 milliseconds in the past, to be precise. Use one hand to touch your nose, and the other to touch... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 SCIENCE

• People Who Hear Their Eyeballs Move

  It sounds like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe tale of horror. A man becomes agitated by strange sounds only to find that they are emanating from inside... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE, SCIENCE

• Beer Bottle Houses

  

  image credit As people move to more sustainable ways of living, some innovative architects have begun using recycled materials to create more... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 ARCHITECTURE, ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Inflatable Beard

  

  Why go through the awkward, itchy hassle of growing a real beard when you can just keep this Inflatable Beard in your pocket and be bearded in a matter of... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• My Little Pop Icons

  

  Artist Mari Kasurinen from Lahti, Finland, makes sculptures of pop culture figures. But not the sculptures you'd expect. She customized them as My Little Pony... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Famous Fictional Characters Based On Real People

  

  The characters that define our popular culture always have to start somewhere. Here are ten famous characters you never knew were based on real life people. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Interview With Rob Janoff, Designer Of The Apple Logo

  

  image credit The Apple logo is one of the most famous logos in the world. Apple fans not only put this logo on their vehicles to show their loyalty, they go... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 COMPUTING, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Marmite Mushrooms - Dom Joly

  Marmite is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa, and a version... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 FOOD & DRINK, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Back To The Start

  Coldplay's haunting classic 'The Scientist' is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson. The film, made by Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Literature Map - The Tourist Map Of Literature

  

  With Literature Map you can discover new authors. Type in the name of a favorite author and instantly get a cloud of related authors. The other authors move awa... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Six Completely Accidental Inventions

  

  image credit Forget spending days, months and years thinking of the next big thing. These inventions were the consequence of sheer dumb luck and coincidence.Th... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2011 RANDOM

• Mailboxes Disappearing As Usage Drops Off

  

  image credit Chalk up another casualty of the digital revolution: the blue corner mailbox. Because of steeply declining use, the U.S. Postal Service has remove... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2011 CURRENT, SOCIETY

• 1 In 10 Dead Bosses Are Murdered

  

  image credit The American Bureau of Labor Statistics has its fascinatingly morbid fatality census report out. Are you a manager of some sort? Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2011 RANDOM, SOCIETY