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• The Scariest Bridge In The World

  

  image credit: ezioman cc An entrepreneurial Maryland man is charging $25 to drive motorists in their own cars across one of the world's scariest bridges... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Homeless Man Under House Arrest

  

  image credit Google Maps Domenico Codispoti is an Italian man under house arrest for a variety of crimes, including petty theft and drug dealing. Signor... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Missing Kids Stamps

  

  is a grassroots movement that asks Canadians to put pictures of missing children somewhere they've never been before: On a stamp. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Disenchanted & Company by Lynn Viehl

  Presurfer reader Lynn Viehl - a pseudonym for American writer Sheila Kelly - will be releasing her 50th published novel in August. The novel is called 'Her... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Spectacular Overhanging Rocks

  

  image credit: sydneydawg2006 cc Overhanging rocks are pieces of rocks that stands horizontally out of the mountains. They literally hanging over a precipice... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Bastei: Amazing Bridged Bastion Of Saxony

  

  image credit: Edwin1710 cc Bastei in German translates as bastion and you can easily see why this name was chosen for this rock formation, situated on the... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• A Brief And Incomplete History Of The Swimsuit

  

  image credit When you squeeze into your Speedo, you're not just baring your skin - you're celebrating centuries of technological breakthroughs. A Brief And... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Somaliland: The East African Country That Isn't

  

  image credit When you think of Somalia, your mind probably conjures up images of a poverty-stricken, war-torn and lawless state - a place populated by pirates... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• NeverWet

  is a superhydrophobic spray-on coating that repels water, mud, ice and other liquids. When water hits the coating's superhydrophobic barrier, it forms a nearly... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Most Interesting Man On Wikipedia

  

  image credit Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He is the most... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Hardest Thing To Find In The Universe

  

  image credit What is rarer than a shooting star? Rarer than a diamond? Rarer than any metal, any mineral, so rare that if you scan the entire earth, all six... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Why Is Australia The Happiest Place On Earth?

  

  For the third year in a row, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has ranked Australia as the happiest place out of 36 industrialized... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 RANDOM

• Swing Of Change

  Short film about a fastidious but bigoted barber in 1930s New York, who comes into possession of a black jazz musician’s trumpet that changes his attitude... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 RANDOM

• A Brief Guide To Arabic Scripts And Calligraphy

  

  image credit There are several different types of script, but just a handful of basic ones from which the entire Arabic language stems. For instance, the... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 RANDOM

• Towards An Alphabet Of Trades

  

  image credit Jost Amman (1533-1591) was a Swiss book illustrator and one of the last major production artists working with woodcuts. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 RANDOM

• 10 Adrenaline-Fueled Team-Building Activities

  

  image credit: Krish Dulal cc In the 1920s and '30s, the Hawthorne Studies, conducted at Western Electric's Hawthorne plant, near Chicago, investigated how... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Soviets Built A Giant Gun That Could Shoot Nukes

  

  image credit: Gandvik cc The insanity of the early Cold War manifested itself perfectly in the Atomic Cannon, built by the US in the early '50s to shoot nukes... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 RANDOM

• Scientists 'Discover' The Secret Of Humor

  Comedians, actors, writers and psychoanalysts have long sought to discover the secret of what makes something funny. Sigmund Freud thought humor stemmed from a... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Umbrella Sky Project

  

  image credit: starrynight1 cc In select areas of the city of Águeda in Portugal, you will find streets lined with colorful umbrellas. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Science Of Fire Breathing

  Dr Tim Cockerill explores the science behind the most dangerous stunt in the firebreather's repertoire - the human volcano. From the volatility of the fuel to... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 RANDOM