Monday, November 30, 2009

Worst Birthday Cakes Ever






Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water

What's For School Lunch?

Foods That Slow Aging

The Guerrilla Guide to Cheap (and Sometimes Free) Eats

Worst Birthday Cakes Ever

Tesco's rivals accuse the supermarket giant of trying to dupe customers with half-price turkeys 'that don't add up'

College students arrested for not paying tip

Rude radishes

10 Foods That (Thankfully) Flopped (via)

The Dog Meat Mafia

Garlic becomes China's top asset

Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

op 5 surprising turkey facts

6 Famous People Who (probably) Died From Overeating (via)

Cheesipedia. Everything you didn't know you wanted to learn about cheese (via)

All You Ever Needed or Wanted to Know About Ketchup

Sushi DNA Tests Reveal Fraud

15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee - The Oatmeal

The Paint-Less Coca-Cola Would Save Earth One Can at a Time

The Amazing World of Coca-Cola

10 Weird Facts About The Brain






9 ways doctors stay healthy while traveling (via)

10 Worst Prescription Drug Side Effects

Cup of mint tea is an effective painkiller

This advertisement for Cigares De Joy was published in the The Illustrated Australian News, 1881

5 Disturbing Ways the Human Body Will Evolve in the Future

Yawn. It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain

Shocking death toll at flagship hospital

Diabetes expected to double, costs to triple by 2034

Named and shamed: Britain's 12 worst hospitals (all passed as good or excellent by health watchdog)

Behold: the world's 10 fattest countries

Rectal cancer tumour destroyed by ultrasound is a first

How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time

Blind man fitted with 'bionic' eye sees for first time in 30 years

HIV infections on the decline

Disorders That Make Us Stronger

5 Weird Medical Breakthroughs

10 Weird Facts About The Brain (via)

How Times Have Changed







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Kenyan contortionist Lazarus Gitu

Kenyan contortionist Lazarus Gitu appears on a German television show.





Sunday, November 29, 2009

11 Most Ridiculous Concert Demands By Hip-Hop Artists






The 10 Most Outdated Tech References in Hip-Hop (via)

'ville.2k - the 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade

The 10 Most (In)Famous Music Headlines Ever Printed

Hobos or Headliners? 15 Aging Rockstars: The Good and the Terrible

Bottom 10 Records: The Worst Albums Ever Recorded

11 Most Ridiculous Concert Demands By Hip-Hop Artists (via)

Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

Jackson moonwalk glove sells for $350K in NYC

5 Musicians Who Need to Find Something New to Sing About

Musical Scrooges: Record company donates just 25p from The Soldiers charity album

Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child named best guitar riff of all time

Feds Raid Gibson Guitars

The Who set to play Super Bowl XLIV halftime

International Robot Exhibition 2009






A mixed bag of links.

Businessman spends £350k to visit every country on earth in record time

Match-fixing inquiry probes 200 European football games

2010 free high resolution printable fine art oil painting calendar download

Real School Absence Excuse Notes

Football player gets booked for farting in the ref's face

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Sniff test to preserve old books (via)

The Curious Case of Rick Rosner

Celebrity Puppets -- Sesame Street Edition

Theme Park Maps (via)

Man in Utah Cave Faced Tough Odds, Doctors Say

Trashy Times: Where Do Recycled Gadgets Really Go?

Hitler's Forgotten Library

Tough yet stiff deer antler is materials scientist's dream

'Seven-year-old Picasso' Kieron sells his art for £17,000... in 14 minutes

International Robot Exhibition 2009

Why Counting Blessings Is So Hard for Teenagers

British policing has 'lost its way', says top officer

Some Kinda Mad Nonsense






Thursday, November 26, 2009

Friday Games






Can you name the most commonly used words in the English language?

Jumpie 2 (via)

Mr. Bounce

Untangle 1.2

Mechanism II

Mr. Crabbys Beach Ball Adventure

The Company of Myself

Bubble Cannon 2

Dr Who Quiz - The Lazarus Experiment 8/10 for me.

Celebrity Mugshots






Murder suspect hands himself in to police after being released from jail by mistake

'Shrek' raider told by police he should never have become an armed robber... because he's so ugly everybody would recognise him

Suspected supermarket thief caught with trousers down

Celebrity Mugshots

Man arrested for battery with a turkey

Man guilty of scaring elderly woman to death

Burglary suspect arrested wearing women's underwear; charged with possession of illegal fireworks

What it's like to witness an execution by electric chair (via)

Childlike photo-fit leads Bolivian police to murderer

54 Cool Examples of Custom Error 404 Pages






8 Online Fads You Didn't Know Were Invented Decades Ago

54 Cool Examples of Custom Error 404 Pages

Bebo installs paedophile panic button

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

UK Anti-Piracy Plans Slammed By Liberal Democrats

Flash In The Pan: New Adobe Beta Enables GPU Offloading

Web 2.0 Utilities As Intoxicants (via)

10 Terrific Time-Wasting Downloads (via)

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia and 50 more (via)

Google's Chrome OS hits BitTorrent

100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators

Google's ChromeOS: Ten observations

Firefox newspaper ad from 2004/12/16

The Best Keyboard You've Ever Typed On

Google Bans Tooth Whiteners And Weight Loss Ads From Network

Blogpaper launches its first free newspaper

Kitty Begging For Food







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