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• Bus Caught On CCTV In Near-Miss

  Some commuters in China narrowly avoided a horrific crash after a disused aqueduct collapsed on a highway just metres in front of their bus. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2011 RANDOM

• Is The Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty: College Major Edition

  

  Is the glass half empty or half full? is a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particular situation could be a cause for optimism (half full... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Tail Fins

  

  General Motors design chief Harley Earl is generally credited for the automobile tailfin, introducing small fins on the 1948 Cadillac. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2011 HUMOR, MOTO, RANDOM

• Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters Playing Tennis

  A quadrocopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by four rotors. Zurich's Flying Machine Arena hosted a quadrocopter tennis match, involving a... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2011 HUMOR, OTHER SPORTS, RANDOM, SPORTS

• The World's Largest Indoor Photograph

  

  Photographer Jeffrey Martin took a 40 Gigapixel photo of the Philosophical Hall, a Baroque reading room in the 868-year-old Strahov monastery library in... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 PHOTOGRAPHY, RANDOM

• My Internet Speed

  

  I saw an infographic about broadband Internet speeds around the world. It seems there's a huge difference in the speed with which various countries can connect... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 COMPUTING, HUMOR, RANDOM, TECH

• Bang Ye - The Chinese Shirt Roll

  

  Beijing has been on a manners kick for the last few years, but on the hottest summer days, there is no stopping men of all ages and shapes from rolling up... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Gorilla Reunion

  In the African jungle, conservationist Damian Aspinall searches for Kwibi, a lowland gorilla he hasn't seen for 5 years. Kwibi grew up with Damian at his... Read more

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

• Robert Bunsen's 200th Birthday

  

  Today Google is celebrating Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday with doodle. Robert Bunsen - born in Göttingen, Germany - is best known for his improvement of the ga... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• 12 American Ghost Towns

  

  image credit If you're asked to name America's most thriving towns, chances are you won't come up with Bodie, Cahawba or Centralia. But once upon a time, these... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Scientists Are A Step Closer To Conquering The 'Magic' Of Invisibility

  

  Many earlier cloaking systems turned objects invisible only under wavelengths of light that the human eye can't see. Others could conceal only microscopic... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM, SCIENCE

• LEGO Alphabet Spaceships A-Z

  

  Alphabet shaped ships made with LEGO. (via Dark Roasted Blend)The Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 2,500-Year-Old Preserved Human Brain Discovered

  

  A 2,500-year-old human skull uncovered in England was less of a surprise than what was in it: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, crinkly, shrunken... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Pointing People

  

  A collection of pictures of people pointing from various newspapers in Austria. The owner of the blog says: I find it strange how newspapers attempt to write a... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Star Trek Wedding Cake

  

  image credit A creepy cake bust of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, baked by Aaron Jue for the wedding of Zeph and Sara LaFassett.The Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Memidex Free Online Dictionary And Thesaurus

  

  The Memidex online dictionary and thesaurus is the Internet's first combined index of external definitions, audio, and etymology. Memidex now has over 12. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Regrets Of The Typical American

  

  A new study by Neal Roese, Kellogg professor of marketing, finds that romance is the most common source of regret among Americans. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Cloud Girlfriend Promises To Give You A Pretend Facebook Girlfriend

  

  Cloud Girlfriend is a new Internet company that promises to help guys to a virtual girlfriend. But nobody will know that she doesn't exist. The new service... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Barack Obama's Top Secret Tent

  

  A rare photo, released by the White House, shows Barack Obama fielding calls from a tent in Brazil, to keep up with events in Libya. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 HUMOR, POLITICS, RANDOM, SOCIETY

• The Smallest Camper In The World

  

  The 'Bufalino' by German industrial designer Cornelius Comanns is a small camper which is equipped to meet the basic needs of one person. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2011 HUMOR, RANDOM