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Have you ever gotten stuck in a never-ending game of Monopoly? Turns out the game wouldn’t take so long if we didn’t play with so many made-up rules. There are many different variations of house rules. Some people even make up their own extreme game. The official Monopoly rules are posted at Monopoly Collector, which also has game history and facts, as do the Monopoly pages at Hasbro. If you’re into statistics, Durango Bill has an excellent article on Monopoly probabilities. Also related, old-style Monopoly card illustrations. And just for fun, check out "Monopoly Cards We’d Like To See" at Dribble Glass. Or, make your own Chance and Community Chest cards at Sign Generator.
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You got your drugs in my candy!
Meth Candy! The media are reporting that meth is being mixed with candy to "make it more appealing to younger users". But drug candy is not new, although it’s more likely accidentally given to kids, or maybe it’s mostly speculation , hysteria and urban legends? Of course, there’s always candy flipping, or chocolate pills. Just remember that chocolate is not an antidepressant.
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Autopsy may show that Yan Yan died of an accidental overdose
After twelve years of not getting laid, Yan Yan the Chinese panda finally kicked the bucket late Monday at the Berlin Zoo. Officials admits she died alone and nobody immediately noticed. Now the media is running with the story that the popularity of Knut the polar bear cub may be the reason behind the death of his neighbor. In other news, the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday in Berlin. Nobody noticed.
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CRAYON!
Before RSS and personalized aggregators such as Personalized Google and NetVibes, there was CRAYON, a service that allowed you to "CReAte Your Own Newspaper" by providing a page with links to chosen sources.
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The Green Fairy
The Virtual Absinthe Museum What is there in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? … Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing
apart – Aleister Crowley.
The Virtual Absinthe Museum has the whole fabled history plus literature, art and antiques. The accoutrements: spoons, glasses, brouilleurs and zoomorphic pichets. Classic art-nouveau posters, postcards showing Les Perils of France, French poetry, English fiction, and American pulp magazines.
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Even they get tired of fried eggs, hamburgers, and greasy coffee
My favorite entree is the salmon sandwich on foccacia bread. Water is served with a slice of cucumber which is very refreshing.
Which profession dines out the most? Whose judgements can be counted on for honesty and straightforwardness? The truckers’.
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Spinning openness
How to control your look of openness by Microsoft. An inside look at how Microsoft spun wired’s article covering Microsoft’s video site Channel 9. It’s an interesting peek at how PR works.
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Magnetic imaging of human genitals during intercourse
Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal. "Only the first couple was able to perform coitus adequately without sildenafil (experiments 1 and 2). The reason might be that […] as amateur street acrobats they are trained and used to performing under stress." Possibly NSFW, although the images are pretty "scientific."
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7-11s to be re-made as Kwik-E-Marts
11 7-11 stores are going to be refurbished as Kwik-E-Marts to coincide with the Simpsons movie:
If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across the U.S. — Richmond is an unlikely choice — to resemble the front of the Kwik-E-Mart, the convenience store that Homer and other characters frequent in the classic cartoon TV series.
Customers also will be able to buy products inspired by the nearly two-decades-old show, including KrustyO’s cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees (the cup says Squishee, but the contents will be Slurpee).
The chain also will use pictures of Simpsons characters to promote 7-Eleven’s line of fresh foods, such as placing the face of Homer and his classic “Mmmm . . . sandwich” quip on sandwich wrappers.
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Human-sheep hybrid
By injecting human cells into the fetus of a sheep, scientists have created a sheep that’s 15% human. To the chagrin of human-animal hybrid fans, the sheep does not have human features.
Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera – which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells – and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
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Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: “Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all.”
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Super Mario, the stop-motion Legos edition
This little stop-motion animation recreates Super Mario Brothers in legos, which is charming enough, but what’s even better is the theme, performed on guitar and recorder, and the sound effects, which appear to be some guy going “week! week!” and so on.
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He Was Only Five-Foot-Three; Girls Could Not Resist His Stare
A Hidden Picasso: Will Shank always suspected something was buried beneath Picasso’s Scène de Rue, a somber street scene painted by Picasso in the fall of 1900 during his first stay in Paris. X-rays revealed a second painting: a nightclub scene which appeared to be the prototype for Picasso’s Le Moulin de la Galette, a 1900 painting thought to be the first Picasso made in Paris. Technicians extracted the colors visible through the cracks in the surface of Scène de Rue and transferred them onto a black-and-white radiograph.
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The Economics of Fat
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: the Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the period 1982-1996, we find that individual BMI measures, as well as the likelihood of being overweight or obese, exhibit a statistically significant positive correlation with the prices of healthful relative to unhealthful foods.
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What took you so long?
The Evolution of Homer Simpson Best. (and Longest.) Couch gag. Evar.
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Poison Dart Machine Hidden at Hong Kong Race Track No good explanation for why and how someone dug up the turf at a Hong Kong racetrack and installed a machine capable of blowing poison darts at the horses. The Triads? (First link NYT)
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‘The new Doctor… He’s so young!’
Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start – and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be – blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.
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The eye of Sauron… er, Saturn
Riddle: What has an eye on the bottom, and a hexagon on the top?
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No more stargate :(
Sadly, I watched the last episode of Stargate SG-1 last week, I’m a stereotypical geek, so I loved it. It’s been on since I was 18, heh, thats a long ass time.
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Perinatal Hospice Programs
Living With a Dying Baby. "Families can choreograph their child�s very brief life with their family . . . Sometimes they may have a matter of minutes, so they decide beforehand who can hold the baby, who will cut the umbilical cord, who will hold the baby when you know he is going to die."
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400 digitized rare books
The Rare Book Room presents about 400 of the world’s greatest books from a variety of libraries in high resolution format. For some samples, check out: Apianus (Astronomicum Caesareum); Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience); Braccelli (Bizzarie di Varie Figure); Catesby (The Natural History of Carolina…); Dürer (De Symmetria…); Colonna (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili). And on and on. The interface is great (use arrow far left at top for larger page image) but there’s a slight browser resize in FFox. A couple of author names are placeholders for future uploads it seems.
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Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows
Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows, an animated short by Ian Stewart. Bum bum bum.
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More than a feeling
Brad Delp 1951-2007 Lead singer for the band Boston , dead at 55. "We’ve just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll." is all you will find at the band Boston’s website
RobDurdle.com 
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