Monday, June 30, 2008

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World






30 Psychobabble Phrases - Which Do You Hate Most? (via)

8 words with two meanings…

Dictionary of everyday words defines 'doobly' and 'embuggerance'

Tongue Twisters (via)

50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence (via)

How we read online - Slate Magazine

Has modern life killed the semicolon?

Scottish Pronunciation (via)

How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand

10 Words to Avoid When Writing

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World

Amusing Stories Behind the 12 Words of Indian Origin That Made It to the Oxford Dictionary

Making The Most Amazing R2-D2 Cake Ever






Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner

Making The Most Amazing R2-D2 Cake Ever

Baconhenge (via)

Gummi Lighthouses: When Candy Design Goes Terribly, Hilariously Wrong

Chocolate bar mash-up. Slightly NSFW, possibly.

Big breakfast 'aids weight loss'

Retro Kid Cereals (US)

10 Foods Named After People (via)

20 Super Foods You Need to Build Muscle & Lose Fat

Nine-year-old girl finds black widow spider in red grapes bought at Waitrose

Post-punk pioneers Devo say they are suing McDonald's in the US over a Happy Meal doll that sports the band's signature red flower pot hat

Burger King launches £95 'bling burger'

Chip shops to display fat content (via)

McDiet Takes Man From 50-Inch Waist to 36 (via)

My beer's too hot, my wine's too cold, my Coke is just right

The Original American Cannibal






5 Horrific Murders (and the TV Movies made from them)

How to give death a good name

Murder mystery in Macedonia

7 Famous Executioners

Boy 'skinned and eaten' by his cannibal cult family after being held captive in a cellar

top 10 philosophers' deaths (via)

The Original American Cannibal

In his first television interview, German cannibal Armin Meiwes describes the taste of human flesh, provides a decent recipe for steak, explains his fascination with the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel — and insists that he’s a normal person.

10 Extraordinary Burial Ceremonies From Around The World (via)

Man dies after drinking more than 20 shots

More Death? Page 1  Page 2

The Caffeine Test

or how fast can you click the mouse. 146 for me.

The Caffeine Click Test - How Caffeinated Are You?
Created by OnePlusYou

Mrs ILuvNUFC heard the constant clicking and came over to see what I was doing. 214 was her score.

The Caffeine Click Test - How Caffeinated Are You?
OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Firefox Tweak Guide






Hello all, hope you all had a great weekend. A couple of things that may or may not interest you. This site passed the 15 million pageloads mark sometime last night(YAY!) and it seems My Guest Map is working again. It has been broken for some time and stuck on 897 readers for ages. So go sign it, please. :)

5 Sites To Play Old Computer Games Once Again

R2D2 Computer Case

Media Converter - the fastest free online audio and video converter

DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter

Google Street View: Private moments captured

Announcing the "Internet for Everyone" campaign

Tricks to improve your Gmail experience

worth1000 - If Google Ruled

Google Street View Car Getting a Ticket (via)

How to use Google Alerts to find out if your site gets hacked

10 successful Google Bombs

Judge Orders Legal Fees in RIAA v Andersen

I have terrible news..

10 Awesome Interactive Websites

'Shake-up' for internet proposed

10 awesome Internet Easter eggs

50 Niche Search Engines That Will Make Your Everyday Life Easier

Firefox Tweak Guide

30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions

Three useful Firefox 3 'awesome bar' hacks

Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But Should)

Microsoft Blogger: Open Source Is an Asset, Not a Threat

Bill Gates Looks Back. Microsoft's Bill Gates gave Fortune magazine access to some rare photos from the Microsoft archives - and shared his memories about them. (via)

Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

10 Free MS Word Alternatives You Can Use Today

One Post Wonder. A collection of amazing blogs that only lasted one post. (via)

Computer pioneer and tea-shop-automator David Caminer dies at 92

Advice from Old People






A mixed bag of links.

Doing it wrong :)

The Baddest Handlebar Mustaches

Eddie murphy's giant head on the interstate

Parent Of The Year

What to Do (and Not Do) In A Fistfight (via)

Tooth Tattoos

An exercise on leasing versus renting. NSFW.

Ohio Peeping Tom hid cell phone camera in his backside

Tattoos of celebrities on people's bodies

Ironic Bench

4th place, unsatisfied.

b3ta's Question of the Week » Advice from Old People. NSFW.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Friday Games






Last up today is the usual friday Games post with a Simpsons quiz thrown in the end. Enjoy and have a great weekend.

Heap Heap

Hedgehog Launch

Who's younger?

Scene Memory (via)

Domino-P

Isora 2

Puzzle Farter

Trajestimate

Wheel of Fortune

How many of 'The Simpsons' characters do you know? 46 for me.

The Door to Hell






Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not just noise, but a deep, astonishing music

Strange Round Ice in Russian Lake

The Door to Hell

The Exploding Lake

Chaiten Volcano in Chile continues to erupt, after its recent eruption on May 6th, - its first activity in over 9,000 years. (12 photos total)

Amazing Geological Oddities

Coober Pedy Underground Desert Cave

The mystery story of the Maya slowly reveals new twists

PHOTOS: ''Lost'' Egypt Pyramid Found Near Bull Tombs

More Wonders of the World? Page 1   Page 2

Top 10 Most Disgusting Parasites






Disapproving Rabbits (via)

Blackbirds dive-bombing Chicago residents

From the egg, baby crocodiles call to each other and to mom

Fighting crows halt trains

Swimming Hedgehog

Plague of rats devastates Burma villages

Pictured: Superstar matador gets gored by TWO angry bulls

5 amazing feats of animal intelligence (via)

A rare lantern bug. They attract their prey by lighting the appendage on their head

Top 10 Most Disgusting Parasites (via)

Dragonfly: Amazing Hi-Res Headshot. Best viewed large.

Cats of the Week

Chimps On The Phone

Spanish parliament to extend rights to apes

Huge Crab, Coconut Crab, and other Terrestrial Arthropods (via)

Most Beautiful Birds

British angler catches rare giant stingray

my Mom is 82 years old in 2005 and I couldn't be prouder of her. This year she caught a 90 pound Halibut, a 55 pound King salmon and then a 50 pound King salmon (via)

Scorpion fish and a scary monk fish.

Itchy Kangaroo






YouTube - Chimpanzee plays Jenga!! (via)

YouTube - Panda has a sneezing fit

YouTube - Baby Red Panda

YouTube - Itchy Kangaroo

YouTube - Snoring Duck

YouTube - Giant King Cobra