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• Ten Delightfully Weird Museums

  

  image credit Most of us spent some chunk of our formative years in one museum or another. Scifi addicts are no strangers to the pleasures of accumulation,... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 CULTURE

• A Mushroom Death Suit

  Jae Rhim Lee is a visual artist, designer, and researcher whose work proposes unorthodox relationships between the mind/body/self and the built and natural... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 RANDOM

• Create Huge Messages

  

  Gzaas is a web service to create huge messages. And to associate them to links that you can paste anywhere. If you want to say anything to a friend via... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 RANDOM, TECH

• Adorable Baby Sloth Yawning

  Is there anything more adorable than sleepy baby animals? Yesterday I showed a video of a sleepy Asian Sunbear cub. Here's another one. A yawning baby sloth. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM, VIRAL

• The Strange Elegance Of The Giraffe-Necked Antelope

  

  image credit Found in Eastern Africa ranging from Somalia to Kenya there is a slightly odd looking long-necked creature that is reminiscent of a giraffe but... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Rorschmap

  

  is a Google Maps mashup created by James Bridle that turns the view into a kaleidoscopic image. Just type your location and click 'Go.' Here's my home town as... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2011 RANDOM, TECH

• The Biggest Locks On Earth

  

  image credit Today we have to deploy increasingly sophisticated measures to secure our possessions and deter would-be thieves. Past decades have introduced key... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, RANDOM

• How Big Companies Got Their Names

  Naming your startup or business is no easy task and one of the most important aspects for successful branding and marketing. You need to have a powerful,... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 BUSINESS, CAREER, RANDOM

• 9 Hours Capsule Hotel

  The '9 hours' is a Japanese capsule hotel with a difference. They expect you to stay just 9 hours in the hotel, 1 hour to shower, 7 hours to sleep, and 1 hour t... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 DESTINATIONS, RANDOM, TRAVEL

• Creepy Horse Mask

  

  A very creepy horse mask. No one is quite sure where it came from or what it means, but the creepy horse head mask has popped up all over the internet in... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 15 Essential Food Photography Tips

  

  image credit For a long time, food photographs tended to be shot and composed the way people were used to encountering their food: laid out on a table setting... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, RANDOM

• For Sale: Replica Of Fred Flintstone's Car

  

  It's a replica of an iconic car that is guaranteed to turn heads. The two-seater soft-top car is for sale at the rock-bottom price of 2,200 Euros ($3,145).... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• MS-DOS Turned 30 Years Old

  

  MS-DOS has turned 30 years old this week. Microsoft's first desktop operating system was launched on July 27, 1981, after Microsoft bought the full rights to... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 COMPUTING, RANDOM, TECH

• Bacon Wrapped Eggs

  What you need: 1 package of bacon, 1 box of eggs, shredded cheddar, crumbled goat cheese, or any cheese you like, chopped herbs such as chives, dill, and... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Digging Up Shakespeare

  

  image credit South African anthropologist Francis Thackeray, the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand in... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do

  

  image credit Would you be able to defend yourself and your loved ones if someone were to physically attack you? It's a question most of us don't want to... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2011 OTHER SPORTS, RANDOM

• Magic World

  Created by French artist François Abélanet, 'Anamorphose' was an ephemeral garden on display in front of Paris' main city hall the Hôtel de Ville. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 CULTURE, GARDENING, HUMOR, RANDOM

• The History Of Captain America

  

  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, HISTORY, HUMOR, MOVIES

• The BookBook Case

  

  Tired of feeling like people are judging you for gawking at your iPhone all day? Feel like you're always 10 seconds from some big dude punching you in the face... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 GADGETS, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• The Perfectly Preserved Pooches Of Castle Bitov

  

  They can sit and stay - and are excellent at playing dead - but this room full of obedient dogs will never go walkies again. The odd-ball collection of 51... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM