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• Tentacle Mustache

  

  Yes, a tentacle mustache. We've combined our love for mustaches with our love for cephalopods to create the most disturbing and compelling upper lip accessory... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• What Our Furry Friends Reveal About Us

  

  There's significant research on the personality differences between dog people and cat people. Feline fanciers are reportedly more introverted, independent,... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, PETS, RANDOM

• Chimecco: A Windchime

  

  image credit British architect, designer, and artist Mark Nixon created 'Chimecco,' a kinetic sculpture, as part of the third annual Sculpture by the Sea... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Medical Secrets

  A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Ten Wizards Who Found Themselves In Science Fiction Stories

  Sometimes you have a perfectly acceptable science fictional universe - full of science, and probably space travel or far-future worlds - and then a wizard just... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• What Are Eye Floaters?

  

  Almost everyone has them. Those little blurry or fuzzy, translucent things that almost resemble a tiny bit of string which floats around happily in your eye. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Flashed Face Distortion Effect

  The Flashed Face Distortion Effect is an optical illusion that is one of the weirdest, freakiest brain phenomenon you've ever experienced. Jason Tangen, Sean... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Lucha Libre And The Fighting Cholitas

  

  picture used with permission The Fighting Cholitas are a group of female lucha libre wrestlers who perform in El Alto, Bolivia. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Lazy Housekeeper Mop Slippers

  

  Lazy Housekeeper Mop Slippers. Lazy housekeepers rejoice! Instead of wasting your time with the dust broom, you can just wear these Mop Slippers every day and... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Bruce Lee Stamp

  

  The Bruce Lee website has launched a campaign to honor Bruce Lee on a US postage stamp in 2012, the Year of the Dragon. Bruce Lee's contributions to history as ... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Fascinating Facts About Phone Numbers

  

  image credit You probably dial a few of them every day, but do you ever stop and think about the history behind a phone number? When were the first numbers... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• BadgEm

  

  Presurfer readers Tim and Joel Sanders founded BadgEm, a little Facebook application that lets people send vintage-inspired merit badges to reward their... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Screech Owls At WildCare

  These orphaned Screech Owls are being weighed in WildCare's Wildlife Hospital. They will stay in care until they're old enough to be released back into the wild. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Robohash

  

  Robohash is a web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text. Put in any text, such as an IP address,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World's First Chocolate Printer

  

  Manufacturing and retail could get a much needed boost from a newly developed 3D chocolate printer. In the long term the technology could be used by customers t... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 GADGETS, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• Bacon Sandwich Really Does Cure A Hangover

  

  image credit Is there anything bacon can't do? A bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover - by boosting the level of amines which clear the head, scientists... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Found Photos: When Rock Lost Its Innocence

  

  image credit On February 26, 1955, a Cleveland deejay named Tommy Edwards became the first music promoter to book a Southern singing sensation named Elvis... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• From Grueling Dial-Up To FIOS Heaven: Internet History

  With a spare fifteen minutes and a few simple clicks of a mouse, the average Internet user can order dinner and have it delivered to his door, download the... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 COMPUTING, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• Odd Day

  

  Today is Odd Day. Three consecutive odd numbers make up the date only six times in a century. After 7/9/11, only two days remain in this parade of Odd Days whic... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Town Of Barnumville

  

  Two years ago I posted about photographer Matt Hoyle's Barnumville, a series of photographs of sideshow performers and amazing physical characters. Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM