Who pins the tail on the donkey anymore?
Birthdays Without Pressure If you think children’s birthday parties are getting out of control, you�ve come to the right place.
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Monstrous Scuplture Garden In Italy
In the town of Bomarzo in central Italy you will find Monster’s Grove, a vast sculpture garden created in 1552 by Pier Orisini to be a unique & astonishing place. The scupltures are quite large, and some are carved directly into the bedrock; as the name might indicate, the subjects are mainly mythical creatures. For centuries, the stone was uncared for, and nature began to reclaim the art, until the 1970s when efforts began to preserve the pieces, and today it is a major tourist attraction, though still privately owned nearly five centuries in.
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The Truth Behind Dragons: They are real…
Contrary to current beliefs, Dragons still exist and always have. Do
you believe dragons are real? This author does and makes his case. Care
to challenge them or have you seen one yourself?
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Monkey Suicide
A blog devoted to answering the question – how many times can one monkey die?
Fortunately, it’s a stuffed monkey
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Does It Pay to be Smart?
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Although money and mental
muscles may seem a natural match, brains, alas, may be more hindrance
than help when it comes to getting rich, concludes a new study in the
journal Intelligence.
“It is still not well understood why some people are rich and others
are poor,” writes study author Jay Zagorsky of Ohio State University.
“Luck, timing, parents, choice of spouse and many other factors play
important roles in shaping an individual’s circumstances,” he
acknowledges in his study, which looks for a link between intelligence
scores, wages and wealth.
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13 Year Old catches Reuters faking pics
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released
last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the
North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
The images were reproduced around the world – including by the Guardian
and Guardian Unlimited – alongside the story of Russia planting its
flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week.
The mistake was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy
contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to
those used in the movie.
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The PC Decrapifier
So, you’re the proud owner of a new PC….Your brand spanking new PC
boots up only to greet you with a plethora of pop-up advertisements
pestering you to pay for anti-virus software or sign up for a music
service. Your desktop is littered with website links for ‘special
offers.’ The system tray is already full of programs that continuously
use your internet connection to make sure that you’re ‘up to date.’
“When did I ask for this?” you ask. Well, you didn’t and that’s where the PC Decrapifier comes
in. The PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your PC
that you never asked for or wanted…you choose what to uninstall, then
sit back and let the PC Decrapifier work its magic.
The PC Decrapifier is a program free for personal use to help the
average [Windows XP/Vista] user combat this problem. It is also
available for PC technicians at a small fee to use as a tool in their
everyday business to save a tremendous amount of time.
Review (Maximum PC)
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Internet Movie Firearm Database
Some people like to know what actors or actresses are in a movie. Some
people want to know what cars were used in a movie. Other people like
to know which movies feature mathematics.
Others? They want to know what guns were used. This is the site for those people.
An online wiki to chronicling guns used in movies. Search by film, gun, TV series, video games, and more.
Just in case…
Not safe for work.
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freerangestock.com: Totally Free Commercial Photography
Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock
photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free. We feel that
free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising
revenue supported photographic community – photographers get paid when
users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions.
Images on the site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from
Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of
photographers. We feel that the images want to be seen and good photos
should be available to everyone – so we give the collections away with
the hope that the will be useful and be enjoyed.
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Flashy Furniture Changes Color to Match Your Mood
An interactive table-and-chairs set that can change color has been
developed by Japanese researchers. They also make a chair that turns colors according to your weight.
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Elvis Week 2007
2007, the 30th Anniversary, will be the largest celebration of all
things Elvis in history. Online, at Graceland and around the world,
projects that celebrate Elvis’s legacy are being planned. Millions of
Elvis fans will attend events and purchase product, and Elvis will be
featured in non-stop news coverage and special programming on tv,
radio, in print and online.
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Atari 2600 Label Maker
Upload a pic and use it to create your own custom Atari cartridge label.
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277 Reasons to Have Sex
The two psychologists have looked over the nominations and decided there are now 277 reasons to have sex.
Seek and ye shall find. Our quest for the 238th reason to have sex has
been more successful than I dared hope. Hundreds of readers nominated
additions to the list of 237 reasons published by Cindy Meston and
David Buss of the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Great Beer Experiment
Bronze Age Irishmen were as fond of their beer as their 21st century counterparts, it has been claimed.
Two archaeologists have put forward a theory that one of the most
common ancient monuments seen around Ireland may have been used for
brewing ale.
The following is a summary version of a forthcoming article in
Archaeology Ireland. The full text will be posted after publication of
the article. The majority of Irish field monuments are defined by their
names – a standing stone is a standing stone and a ringfort is a
ringfort – but not so the fulacht fiadh, characterised by its
horseshoe-shaped mound and associated trough.
One hungover morning at breakfast, discussing the natural
predisposition of all men to seek means to alter our minds, coupled
with our innate inquisitiveness (and more mundane preparations for the
excavation of a fulacht fiadh), Billy Quinn of Moore Group came to a
sudden and startling conclusion: fulachts were Ireland’s earliest
breweries!
Immediately we set out on a journey of discovery. This quest took us to
Barcelona to the Congres Cerveza Prehistorica, and later one evening in
Las Ramblas in the company of, among others, an international beer
author, an award winning short story writer, a world renowned beer
academic and a Canadian Classical scholar – all of whom shared our
passion for the early history of beer. In pursuit of the early Northern
European brewing evidence we travelled to the Orkneys and the welcoming
arms of Merryn and Graham Dineley, an archaeologist and home brewer who
taught us more about Neolithic brewing and the basic manufacturing
process. Hot rock brewing technology brought us to Belgium and thence
to Bavaria and Rouchenfeld’s brewery in Marktoberdorf. We also had to
follow the clues to Canada, all of this culminating in a failed attempt
to enter Iran via Basra.
So having discovered that brewing and beer drinking was prevalent and
widespread throughout The Levant and The Far East with growing evidence
of the same from Late Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe and Britain, and
given our prodigious reputation for alcohol consumption (even in Roman
Times), where and how did the Bronze Age Irish people brew?
Be sure not to miss the photo gallery
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Dumbass Girl overdoses on Caffine
Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after
downing seven double espressos while working at her family’s sandwich
shop.
The student, of Stanley, County Durham, was taken to the University
Hospital of North Durham, where doctors confirmed she had overdosed on
caffeine.
She has since made a full recovery and is now warning others about the dangers of excessive coffee drinking. What an amateur.
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Flashy Furniture Changes Color to Match Your Mood
An interactive table-and-chairs set that can change color has been developed by Japanese researchers. They also make a chair that turns colors according to your weight.
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Say “Xyzzy!”…Nothing happens
Real Life “Colossal Cave Adventure�! Discussion of original source code, different versions of the game, hand draw maps, and lots of photos inside the cave the game is based on. Grab your shiny brass lamp and tasty food and meet me at the Bedquilt entrance.
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Oh my God, I just felt it ferment!
The Bender Brewer Project. Inspired by an episode of Futurama in which boozy robot Bender is used to brew beer, Star Wars ASCII animator Simon Janson decided to build his own Bender to use to brew his own beer. Among the many careful details that went into this project was to actually build the robot’s brain out of a 6502 processor, as specified in the show, and to build a remote detonator to operate his brain.
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Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
Interviews with 100-year-olds:
(Short): Quick NPR interview with a guy who works on Wall Street.
(Medium): A series of small segments with the oldest graduate of Gilbert High School.
(Long): Part of WFMU’s 365 day project. Restored tape from 1978, on which it appears a young student is interviewing an old lady from Kansas.
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Slaves to Superstition
Episode one of controversial evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ new series Enemies of Reason premieres on Channel 4 tonight. Here’s a list of topics.
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The Unpleasant World of Penn and Teller
You want to waste as much time as possible before going back to work Monday morning, right? So, stay up late and watch 6 episodes of The Unpleasant World of Penn and Teller, their mid-90s show on British TV. Don’t have time for all that right now? Then jump right to a card trick with John Cleese, or their unique version of the Card Stab trick. At the very least, you owe it to yourself to prepare for tomorrow’s coffee break.
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Wallpaper eye candy
Social Wallpaper. A community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.
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