Saturday, June 30, 2007

Amazing photo of actual melted clock in arson-torched Colo. school

Photography student Kimberly Wiggins took this amazing photo of a schoolroom clock that melted on the wall of Weber Elementary school in Arvada. Salvador Dali would be proud.

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[PICTURE] Best Dog Suit Ever. By a Longshot.

The 'Croc-Eat-Dog' Promotion Neunkircher Zoologischen Garten.

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First idiot to drop iPhone!

As titled, this guy opens the box and...just watch.

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Happy birthday, walrus! Aww, you shouldn't have. // pic

If this doesn't make you smile, nothing will.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

[Pic] The 4 Branches of the US Government

Simply amazing. Our founding fathers misled us...

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

For Every 100 Girls - The Boys Project

For every statistic on 100 girls, how do the boys fare?

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Wall Street Journal Q&A With Steve Jobs

Oh Steve, you elusive weasel you...

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Benoit's Death Posted to Wikipedia 14 Hours Before Bodies Found !!!!!!

An anonymous user operating a computer traced to Stamford, Conn. — home to World Wrestling Entertainment — posted an entry to pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia.com biography announcing the death of his wife Nancy more than 14 hours before police in suburban Atlanta said they found her body.

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White House may force Congress to charge president w/ criminal charges

Bush Administration may face impeachment if Executive Privilege is used to block subpoenas

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Lego Aircraft Carrier [PICTURE]

Put simply, this LEGO aircraft carrier is one of the most detailed models we’ve ever come across.

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Police Brutality on 13 yr-olds Including a Girl-For Skateboarding (w/ Vid)

OK, This one is just out of control, this group of kids were skateboarding down the street in Arkansas when this cop decided to get all power hungry on them. He chokes out the first kid, chases another, puts a girl and another guy in a headlock, and it's all caught on video. The info is in the post.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Have you heard of Credit Triggers? You should

I just heard a piece on NPR about Experian selling your credit history to collection agencies. They constantly monitor your credit activity and if you start to pay off your credit and are getting back on your feet, they notify the collection hounds and let them have at you. This sounded pretty damn wrong to me so I got on Google



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Camera angle mistake reveals Criss Angel's secret! (picture story)

Tivo recording shows the secret behind Criss Angel making a moving go-kart vanish into smoke.



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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Bush exempts himself from security too, LA Times to report

"The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog," the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday.



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Bush Runs Out of Laws to Break; Resorts to Breaking His Own Executive Order

President Bush, tired of the regular business of systematically dismantling our democracy, decided Friday to start breaking his own executive orders for a change.



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Bush claims he’s not part of the executive branch.

The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.



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Big Pharma and Health Insurance Companies Go After Michael Moore-Video

And it’s not limited to Michael Moore either. The 9/11 first responders that Moore took to Cuba in a pivotal scene in the movie are worried that they’ll be persecuted as well.



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Violent crimes in the US have fallen by 60% since Doom was released

Since Doom was released in 1993, violent crimes in the United States have to 40% of what they used to be. Coincidence? Possibly, yes. However, the year Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were released, violent crimes fell by 4%, and a further 2% when Grand Theft Auto was released.



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Pit Bull vs. Porcupine = 1347 Quills to the Snout (OUCH)

Here is one of the most shocking photos I have seen of animal defense in its most basic form. Simply a major porcupine counter attack. Who could stand a chance?



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Friday, June 22, 2007

First Image Of Harrison Ford As Indiana Jones Since 1989

Check out the first official image of "Indiana Jones 4" of Harrison Ford as the man himself! I have to say, he’s looking pretty good for a guy in his 60s. You can definitely tell that he has aged, but I think it’s a good look.



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If Crayola Made Crayons for Emo Kids They Would Look Like This

Haha, 44 colors, each one as unique as you are, to help you to express your oppression-fed, sorrow-fulled, angst-inspired individualistic creativity.



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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Statistical chance of a man winning an argument (pic)

Guess when the odds hit zero? Just guess.



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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo," is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It has been known to exist since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, currently an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.



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Nations who have not yet adopted the metric system (pic)

How many could there be?



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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Awkward Friendships

Touching photos of unusual animal friendships.



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Shuttle Launch Seen From ISS (pic)

Absolutely awesome.



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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Interesting animation of how Americans voted from 1960-2004 (Pic)

Now you'll know where to hate people.



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Friday, June 15, 2007

First pictures of the 725 HP Shelby GT500 "Super Snake" [PICS]

The new up-to-725 HP and $70,000-plus Shelby-upgraded GT500 "Super Snake" was caught getting ready for its first showing at the Mid-America Ford Performance and Shelby Meet in Tulsa, OK this weekend. This crimson serpent gives more HP for your buck than probably anything else on the market. The Cobra Commander helmet's extra.



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Ever Feel Guilty About Pirating Music? Here's the Solution. [pic]

This is the way around a guilty conscience for file sharing.



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Can you see a bullet before it hits you in the face?

Question we've been debating at work for a while...



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Ten Surprising Nutrition Facts

Interesting



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Thursday, June 14, 2007

More from the "BBC Now in America" Campaign [PICTURES]

Ingenious "See both sides of the story" banners being displayed as part of the "BBC Now in America" advertising campaign.



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Company Photo Gets Pwn'd

They never saw it coming. I'd love to see the picture taken a second after this one.



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More Working Moms Sending Sick Children To School For Fear Of Losing Jobs

Teachers tell researchers they've never seen so many children coming to school sick. Guilt-ridden mothers are sending ailing kids to day care or school for fear that staying home will result in discipline on the job. Too many elected officials are preaching family values but listening to lobbyists who want those values to end at the workplace door.



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A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares

Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster, the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. The jet that released the flares, a C-17 Globemaster III, is seen on the right. The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel.



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Check the meter! The newest take on urban camping

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

BBC: World Now in America // pics

4 of BBC's very interesting billboards.



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Rural America 101: Explaining Guns, Mullets and Wal-Mart to the Japanese

I volunteered to take a group of Japanese exchange students on a field trip. I dutifully explained to them about trailer parks, biker bars, Wal-Mart and Mullets. After we passed a gun shop, they became excited and decided they wanted to go shooting rather than horseback riding. God bless America!



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What happens when you name your sons Winner and Loser?

You'd be surprised.



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Have You Noticed the Cell Phone "Phantom Vibration Syndrome"?

This happens to me all the time!



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Easy To Understand (somewhat) Animation About Quantum Physics

What the heck is quantum physics? Watch this and find out...



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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

An Open Letter To Parents Who Bring Their Children To Violent Horor Films

It’d be one thing if they were twelve or thirteen. While the majority of children at that age are, indeed, douchebags, they at the very least understand what they are seeing, will only verbally react to certain parts of the film, and they are easily controllable by any parent with half a brain and a desire for silence. Not so with your children...



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Mr. Wizard died today. May he R.I.P.

Mr. Wizard, the man who taught science to millions of geeks when we were kids, died today of cancer.



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The Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake

...and other such lake/island records, such as the largest island in a lake on an island. Maps and/or photos for each one.



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Sunday, June 10, 2007

[PHOTO] - Breath-taking Shot - The Eclipsed Earth - Viewed From Space!

Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station.



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The grueling ancient quest of the Marathon Monks

For more than 7 years, Genshin Fujinami has covered the trails of Mount Hiei in one of the world's most grueling feats - a punishing quest that combined starvation, isolation and the equivalent of a lap around the equator. Since 1885, only 48 "marathon monks'' of Buddhism's Tendai sect have accomplished the ritual.



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Poor Pluto [picture]

Saturday, June 09, 2007

How To Make Ice Cream in a Bag in 5 Minutes

Here's a pretty damned simple ice-cream recipe: combine ingredients in a baggie. Fill a bigger baggie with ice, salt and the baggie of ingredients. Shake for five minutes. Ice cream. Who knew?



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Friday, June 08, 2007

How the Presidents Stack Up - A Graphical Look at Approval Ratings

this takes you from Truman through Bush. It ws updated in 2006 so... It's rather surprising.



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Angry Russian Mob Burns A Satanic Dodge Viper At The Stake

Here's a travel tip: if you're driving through Russia, make sure your plates don't have the numbers "666" on them. Otherwise, your $85,000 Dodge Viper will be accused of witchcraft and torched.



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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Wheel chair gets stuck in 18 wheeler front grill guy goes for ride! 50mph

WTF! This has got to be the weirdest story ever. The wheel chair of a 21-year-old man became lodged in the grill of a semi truck as the vehicle pulled out of a gas station. The semi then began driving down Red Arrow Highway, with its new and unusual hood ornament still attached. Speeds of 50 mph were reached, picture included.



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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

What Would Happen If the Post Office Had Competition?

Would we get more services? Cheaper rates? Shorter lines? Better handling of mail? More convenient location of mailboxes? Just to name a few. Are there risks? Only if you expect poor service at a higher rate.



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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

CompUSA sells man empty camera box; won't issue refund

This TV news consultant bought at $270ish digital camera from a CompUSA clearance -- but only gets an empty box. A staffer blamed the buyer! "It’s not just 'buyer beware,' it’s 'don’t be a buyer.'



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Monday, June 04, 2007

Amazing SawStop Cuts Anything But Your Fingers

SawStop is a safety feature that immediately stops and retracts a spinning saw blade if it comes in contact with anything that even remotely resembles your finger. Check out the startling video above, where it practically self-destructs in order to save this innocent hot dog's life.



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iPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th

Looks like our source was right: the iPhone is yours come June 29th. The commercial just aired on 60 Minutes, and now you can finally mark your calendar...



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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Digg for Higgs

The Higgs Boson that is. It's a new particle scientists are hoping to find in "The Higgs Hunt". One of the biggest experiments on the planet, the Large Hadron Collider, will smash together tiny particles called protons. When the protons collide, this creates NEW PARTICLES that shower through the experiment's detectors.



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Cheering ban costs five students their H.S. diplomas

Man I'm glad MBA wasn't like this.



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See anything wrong in this Spelling Bee photo?

Ironic to say the least.



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Apple's prediction of computing in 2010, from 1988

Back in 1987/1988, Apple made promotional videos for a concept device called the Knowledge Navigator, which would be the computer of 2010. An interesting look back... and forward.



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Saturday, June 02, 2007

The AntiWar Activist That The Right Wing Dare Not Smear

Every vet that walk, limp or crawl should show up at the meeting that USMC has schedule and demand that theirhonorable discharges be changed to dishonorable. I would be proud to be counted with Sgt. Kokesh.And, I have been out since 1967 after eight years service including Vietnam.



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Friday, June 01, 2007

Scares in space...like blowing the hatch on the space shuttle

"Did you hear the one about the astronaut who threw up in his spacesuit? Or about the cosmonaut who had to get medical treatment in space after walking into a floating glob of antifreeze? Or the astronaut who became so despondent after his orbital experiment failed that his colleagues feared he would blow the hatch on the space shuttle?"



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Why Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

15 reasons why Mr. Rogers was, and always will be, the best neighbor, and one of televisions best entertainers, ever.



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