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• Ghost Town Comes Up For Air After 25 Years Under Water

  

  image credit: Santiago matamoro cc A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 SOCIETY

• 10 Awesome Vine 6-Second Videos

  

  Vine is a mobile app, owned by Twitter, that lets users create extremely short videos (6 seconds) from their smartphones and tablets and it's quickly becoming... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• If F. Scott Fitzgerald Was One Of America's Greatest Novelists, Why Is He...

  

  image credit: intelligo1 cc Office buildings and apartment blocks surround the Catholic cemetery in Rockville, Maryland, USA. Among those interred here is a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A History Of The Oval Office

  

  image credit The Oval Office, located in the West Wing of the White House, is the official office of the President of the United States. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY

• GeoGuessr

  

  turns Google Street View into a game. You are presented with a random Google Street View image. Look at the area and figure out where you are. Click the map to... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 RANDOM

• Why Cats Are Better Than Men

  

  An infographic about why cats are better than men. At first I had my doubts, but then again... you don't have to pretend to like his mother, you have a better... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 RANDOM

• Space Oddity By Astronaut Chris Hadfield

  Yesterday, International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield handed over command to Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov. Ahead of his return to Earth he said... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 RANDOM

• How Much Would It Cost To Be The Great Gatsby?

  

  The highly anticipated movie from director Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, opens this weekend. Whether or not Luhrmann has done justice to Fitzgerald's... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 LIFESTYLE

• 10 Best Interactive Google Doodles

  

  image credit On notable dates, such as holidays and anniversaries, Google works hard to modify its iconic logo to fit with the relevant theme - using cool desig... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 SOCIAL MEDIA

• Riker Sits Down

  Commander William Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek:... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 RANDOM

• Your Eyes And Mouth On Your Pet

  

  Petswitch puts your eyes and mouth on that of your pet. First, upload a picture of yourself. Then upload a picture of your pet, or choose one of the provided pe... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Cities That Live Behind Walls

  

  image credit: Bourtange cc For thousands of years, humans have been defending their cities by building huge walls around them. Over time, the cities often... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fugu

  An animated short by Arthur Philippe. It's about a blowfish fighting for his life and a Japanese chef just trying to put a meal on the table. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 CULTURE

• Tulips: Not Only From Amsterdam

  

  image credit: fhisa cc When it's spring again I'll bring again tulips from Amsterdam - so goes the old song. Tulips and the Netherlands seem to be forever... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 OUTDOORS, TRAVEL

• 15 Amazingly Bizarre KISS Merchandising Products

  

  image credit: original_MikZ cc KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, the last-remaining original members of the band, have had the world rocking all... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The Magic Roundabout In Swindon, England

  

  image credit Google Earth The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England was constructed in 1972 and consists of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Home Made Fire Breathing Piranha Plant From Super Mario Brothers

  Piranha plants are large, carnivorous plants encountered throughout the Mario series; Piranha Plants are seemingly based-off Venus Flytraps, eating anything tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 10 Most Innovative Movie Marketing Campaigns

  

  image credit: Fire Monkey Fish cc Marketing is an ever-growing field, and one that provides a great deal of room for creativity, innovation and exciting... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Why Mango Is Good For You

  

  image credit Mangoes contain a store of phenolic and carotenoid compounds (gallotannins, alpha-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin and more) that seem to offer some... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 FOOD & DRINK, HEALTH

• Corvettes From North Carolina Collector Bill Mullis

  The first Corvette Bill Mullis bought many years ago, was black. He liked the way it looked and soon realized that in some cases, black Corvettes were few and... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM