Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Grilling: Determine the doneness of a steak
According to Men’s Health, you can gauge how done your steaks are by comparing the elasticity of the steak to the way the meaty part of your thumb feels as it progressively flexes.
It works like this: You touch your thumb to your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers, and the further you reach, the harder your muscle becomes. Apparently this should match up relatively well with rare, medium rare, medium, and well done steaks as you work your way from index to pinky. With a long summer of barbecuing ahead, this tip should come in very useful.
Rare.
Medium Rare.
Medium Well. 
Well Done
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How To Make The First Move
http://www.videojug.com/film/player?id=52002c60-a9e9-0608-c4ac-ff0008c96a53
VideoJug: How To Make The First Move
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Video of Bush losing his watch in Albania
The Story is in Dutch, but it has better quality footage of Bush losing his watch.
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You And Me And The Devil Makes 3
"You are the first person to sit right next to me." What does that tell you? "That you’re smart." Marilyn Manson isn’t doing industrial howls anymore, but still has all the melancholy you could ask for. Fun interview by Polly Vernon.
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Home Semen Detection Kit
Has some strange man been having orgasms inside your wife or daughter? Sure, you may think not, but can you be sure?? You can now, thanks to the revolutionary new CheckMate (get it) Semen Detection Kit that is not, in fact, a joke despite how absolutely creepy it seems.
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Modern Military Ruins of San Francisco
Modern Military Ruins in San Francisco. Really awesome Flickr set includes documentation of Hunters Point Shipyard, Treasure Island Naval Station, Alameda Naval Air Station, the SF-88 Nike Missile Site, Hamilton Field Air Force Base, and Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
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Dachshund Running in Circles Around Kiddie Pool
Dachshund in Kiddie Pool. Also see Rusty.
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Do you fear your bags will stage a Day of the Triffids-style attack? Show’em whose boss.
Yes, you conscientiously refuse plastic shopping bags and use enviro bags as often as you can, but still the plastic bags manage to breed like roaches. How many plastic bags do you have stuffed in (naturally!) a large plastic bag somewhere in your home? And do you despair of ever using them up? Fear not! If you have more bags than home furnishings and décor items, you could make a chair, a few throw rugs, cushions, a chandelier, or a Christmas wreath. If you’d like a stylish yet waterproof wardrobe, you could make a cape, a raincoat, or a bra. It would be less utilitarian but equally cool to make your own menagerie: chickens, a zebra, more chickens, sea creatures, and still more chickens.
Or perhaps you’ve got a mental block and can’t think of the bags as anything but bags, so you just make them into better bags. If you’re artistic, you could glue them onto a canvas and paint over them with oils. If you’re very artistic and enterprising, you could become an environmental artist like Nicole Johnson of Tasmania or John Dahlsen of Australia and sell your creations for thousands of dollars. Rest assured whatever you do make will outlive you as a plastic bag takes 100 years to decompose in a landfill. But then you may decide to simply hoard those bags for picking up your doggie’s doo-doo, because their days are probably numbered. San Francisco was the first city in North America to ban the plastic bag, followed by the equally progressive if not quite as fabulous Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, and Ontario, Canada is gearing up to reduce the number of bags we use, and Australia has already made significant progress in that direction.
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Bush’s wristwatch gets nabbed.
President Bush received a hero’s welcome on a recent trip to Albania. This has been the first time a serving U.S. President has visited the country, and it’s probably the first time a president has had his wristwatch stolen while shaking hands.
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FIRE GOOD
How to build and start a fire. How to build and start a fire with stone age tools. How to start a fire in an emergency. How to start a fire without matches. How to start a fire with sticks. How to start a fire with air – and possibly inspire the birth of the diesel engine. How to start a fire with ice. How to start a fire with chocolate and a coke can.
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Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft
Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft is a 45-minute BBC radio documentary: "Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America’s greatest horror writer since Poe. During his life, Lovecraft’s work was confined to lurid pulp magazines and he died in penury in 1937. Today, however, his writings are considered modern classics and published in prestigious editions. How did such a weird, wild and ungodly writer get canonised? Among the writers considering his legacy are Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub and China Mieville." ST Joshi, a biographer of Lovecraft, has an essay up on The Scriptorium. Wikisource has an extensive collection of his writings, including not only his most famous novels and short stories, but also essays, letters, poetry and legal documents. He is buried in the city of his birth, Providence, Rhode Island, where he does eternal lie, even though someone made an unsuccessful attempt to exhume him in 1997.
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Dutty Wine – a grim fandango
Dutty Wine – the new dance craze that’s sweeping the nation, or "a demon sen’ from de pit a hell dat is taking the lives of the youth even before dem have time to repent?"
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Ancient Rome in Virtual Reality
Rome Reborn is a digital model of ancient Rome as it might have appeared on June 21, 320 AD, including the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. More info.
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Some animations
Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands. The creator gives his methods here (third post). His website Pixel Nitrate has several other animations.
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Jules Verne map collection
An international cadre of volunteers have collected all the maps that appeared in the original editions. They’re beautiful.
Weirdly, the volunteers who scanned these in have added this to their page: “These maps may not be reproduced for commercial purposes.” Given that the maps are in the public domain, and that scanning a public domain image doesn’t make it yours, I don’t know why they think they can dictate the terms on which these are used. We all benefit from the public domain and no one has the right to tell you what you can and can’t do with it. Might as well post the text of “Hamlet” and say, “This text may not be used for commercial purposes.” Sez who?
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Bizarre Johnny Depp interview in Japan
Johnny Depp recently appeared on Japanese TV to promote Pirates of the Caribbean Part 3. He sat in a chair while a bunch of people stood to the side and spoke to him. Then some cute little kids gave him a talent show. Mr. Depp appeared uncomfortable, but was polite during the bizarre ordeal.
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Gallery of custom vans in Japan
Here‘s a photo gallery of outrageously customized vans in Japan.
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You Spin me ’round babby
Bad album covers: Volume 1 and Volume 2, (NSFW content!). Two flickr sets of album covers to make you laugh. cry, scream in terror, or just quietly go WTF? In addition is the related site of Strange records, which includes a page of mp3s.
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Air Force drops gay bomb
Make love not war? The Pentagon confirms that it was researching the possibility of a "gay bomb" that could "turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting." BBC discusses this and other unorthodox U.S. weapons proposals.
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Sleep is where Ralph is a Viking
“Oh, boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking!” From the Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian," one small Ralph Wiggum line that’s sparked some big debate on the internet. Does Ralph use "Viking" to mean "One who excels"? Or does Ralph dream of being a Scandinavian warrior? Not content to keep it online, people are calling radio shows (June 5th’s episode, around the 49 minute mark) to gain support for their opinion. Perhaps only the show’s writer, David Cohen, can settle this.
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