Tuesday, February 24, 2009

See A Fish With A Transparent Head

Today there's a new addition to the "real life is stranger than fiction" category. Check out the fish Macropinna microstoma. It has tubular eyes and a see-through head.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Banking on the Brink

Why not just go ahead and nationalize? Remember, the longer we live with zombie banks, the harder it will be to end the economic crisis.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Jiuzhaigou: China's Mystic Waters

Jiuzhaigou means "valley of nine villages," because it once harbored nine, but other numbers are more significant now. About 80 hotels are clustered cleanly at the mouth of a Y-shaped, 20-mile-long valley in the Min Mountains of central China, where 280 buses wait to shuttle this day's 18,000 or so visitors up the very pretty route......

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iPhone game saves a family's home

The 30-year-old computer programmer hoped to sell enough copies of the game that the couple wouldn't have to put their home on the market. That was more than $700,000 ago.

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Monday, February 16, 2009

10 Reasons Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies

For what began with college students has found its fullest, richest expression with us, the middle-aged. Here are 10 reasons Facebook is for old fogies:

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Boyfriend (XKCD COMIC)

(XKCD COMIC)

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iPhone 4G Concept Is a MacBook In a Phone

Oh. So. Pretty. It needs some small aesthetic fixes here and there, but boy I would like to see something along these lines coming from Apple. And I like the fantasy specs too.

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

10 Things I Love About Vultures

They're not revolting. They're gentle, inquisitive, and smarter than eagles.

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Cellphone Explosion Severs Man's Neck!

Just in case, I'm not putting my iPhone in my jacket's inner chest pocket ever again. Or in my pants, for that matter.

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James Harrison Punching Aaron Francisco!

Harrison is a dirty player. Look at this video where he pummels Aaron Francisco who is about 100 pounds smaller than him. He only gets a 15 yard penalty. He should have been ejected from the game!

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7 Items You Won't Believe Are Actually Legal

Drugs, artillery emplacements, napalm, prostitution- sometimes it seems like the best things in life are illegal. Luckily for us, there are a lot of awesome things out there that Uncle Sam amazingly hasn't taken away from us yet.

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Sunday, February 01, 2009

The suspect you'd least suspect.

A TV news blooper causes some unexpected lulz...

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