February 2010
Black Lab Receives Top British Military Honor
The life-saving skills of a black Labrador have earned him a top medal in the British Army, Sky News reported Wednesday.
Nine-year-old Treo’s job is to sniff out roadside bombs in Afghanistan for soldiers, and he has proved rather good at it. In August, 2008, while working as a forward detection dog in Sangin, Treo found a “daisy chain” improvised explosive device (IED) - made...
Overheard...
Teen girl (setting up voicemail on her phone): Hey! This is Katy. If you're not my mother, please leave a message.
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Webclock →
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“For every minute of the clock, a fragment of text is taken from a webpage which contains the current time, but from a different day and/or year in history.”
Basically, it’s the coolest web clock you’ve ever seen.
Lingerie Model Runs One Of World's Largest Drug...
An international arrest warrant has been issued for the 30-year-old, who is suspected of recruiting beautiful women and using them to move drugs to Europe and North America.
Many of these women are believed to be other lingerie and glamour models who compete in international beauty pageants, whom Valencia describes as “unsuspicious, beautiful angels”.
She is thought to be on the...
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“Doing some uncomplicated and monotonous work ought to give you some time to...”
– Nora Roberts
Hey guys,
I apologize for the severe lack of posts as of late. I’ve been super sick and I’m only now slowly getting better. I promise to get things moving again soon.
xo,
Nat.
Cookbook Catchall →
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Overheard...
Little girl: Mommy, why is it cold out?
Mom: Because your father is an asshole!
Man Indicted for Breaking Into Prison
Prison walls were no obstacle for a man in western Germany who was being separated from his love. But breaking into her cell every night turned out to be a very bad decision.
Ah, love. It drives us to do the craziest things: climb the highest mountains, run through the fields, scale city walls or walk for miles. Love even drove one man in the western German city of Bielefeld to break into prison....
The Universal Record Database →
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“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power...”
– Groucho Marx
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Make Images 3D, sans Goofy Glasses
3D pictures are interesting, but they rely on glasses that alter the way your left and right eye perceive images. This cool 3D image-creation technique doesn’t require glasses but still produces a 3D illusion.
Click here to see the animation effect.
Instead of taking two images and combining them into one with each image highlighted in red and blue—or cyan and magenta, or any other color...
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“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to...”
– G.K. Chesterton
High Snobiety →
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The Evolutionary Origins of the Sweet Tooth
There’s a reason sweethearts don’t give each other boxes of radicchio for Valentine’s Day, and it’s related to the reason we don’t refer to lovers as bitterhearts: humans, like most animals, have a soft spot for things that taste sweet.
How we developed the fondness for sugars, and how sugars came about in the first place, is the topic of a lecture being given by evolutionary biologist Jason...
Overheard...
Hobo: Everyone, please believe me, I had nothing, I tell you--nothing, to do with this rain!
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“My education has been so unwitting I can’t quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books, but that’s how I’ve stayed attuned to myself and the world around me for the past thirty-five years. Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like...
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Anonymous asked: when are you gonna come try my chicken tikka masala :)
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“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”
– Noel Fielding
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Werd →
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*Special thanks to Marc for sending this one my way.
