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• The Beautiful Chaos Of Improvisational Quilts

  What would jazz look like if it had a physical presence? According to Sherry Ann Byrd it might look something like the hand-made 'M-provisational' quilts... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Your Paintings

  

  The United Kingdom has an outstanding national art collection of 200,000 oil paintings, but 80% of them aren't even on display - instead they can be found tucke... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 CULTURE, HUMOR, RANDOM

• What Is The Hottest Pepper In The World?

  

  image credit In February, the editors of The Guinness Book of World Records announced that the Infinity chili, grown by Nick Woods, the proprietor of a hot-sauc... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's Largest Automatic Truck Wash

  The world's largest fully automatic truck wash facility in Lloydminster, Canada. More than 20.000 gallon (75.000 L) of water used when washing one B train. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Physics Book

  

  The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection is Cliff Pickover's new novel. Cliff is known for his excellent blog Reality Carnival which has... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 HUMOR, PHYSICS, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• Scrape Scraperteeth

  

  Jason Nelson makes net art and digital poetry. Scrape Scraperteeth is a bizarre hand-drawn game but also a work of art. The game is full of images, text, and... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 CREATIVITY, CULTURE, RANDOM

• Scientist Classifies 14 Types Of Nose

  

  Scientist Abraham Tamir toured shopping centres in Europe and Israel, taking candid photographs of people with interesting noses. He then sorted the 1,300... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Handy Parking

  From the Red Green Show. This is a funny video but remember kids: never park in front of a fire hydrant. Fire hydrants can save lives. YouTube link (thanks... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Rainbow Toad Rediscovered After 87 Years

  

  After months of scouring remote forests in Borneo, researchers spotted three rainbow toads up a tree, snapping the first-ever photographs of this elusive... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Letter Carrier With Child In Mailbag

  

  image credit A photo from the 1900s from the archives of the National Postal Museum. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, RANDOM

• Recue Of A Humpback Whale

  Michael Fishbach, who co-founded the Great Whale Conservancy, narrates his encounter with a humpback whale entangled in a fishing net. It happened in the Sea... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• 10 Most Incredible Hairy People

  

  image credit Hypertrichosis is an abnormal amount of hair growth on the body. There are two distinct types of hypertrichosis: generalized hypertrichosis, which... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Date With Mila Kunis

  

  US serviceman Sergeant Scott Moore posted an unique invitation on YouTube asking actress Mila Kunis to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball in November in... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Saved From Collapse By Giant Airbags

  

  image credit Egypt's oldest pyramid has been saved from collapse by giant airbags which have been used to prop up the ceilings. The 4,700-year-old building... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, HUMOR, RANDOM

• Japanese Summer Cooling Sprays

  Japanese companies have an interesting new product up their sleeves: ice cold cooling foam sprays, which are advertised as to provide instant temperature cool... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Nexus Contraptions

  

  Google launched a game called Nexus Contraptions. You have to operate a Rube Goldberg-esque machine filled with bouncing Google apps, magnets and fans. Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Cheap Date Ideas She'll Actually Love

  

  image credit Taking women out on dates doesn't have to be expensive. It simply takes a little more thought. Too many men make the mistake of believing they... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 DATING, HUMOR, LOVE & SEX, RANDOM

• Wearing Jeans Many Days In A Row: Normal Or Not?

  

  image credit Is wearing your jeans many days in a row normal or not? Yes, it is, because Kate does it too. When we discovered that Duchess Catherine has been... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 CELEB, HUMOR, RANDOM

• 25 Everyday Things You Never Knew Had Names

  Do you know what a lunule is? Or a ferrule, a muntin, a desire path, and what phosphenes are? There are so many things out there that we deal with or see... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Self-Service Bicycle Vending Machine

  

  Cycling becomes increasingly popular in big metropolitan centers around the globe. That is perhaps the reason why new services for bicyle riders start to... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 HUMOR, LIFESTYLE, RANDOM