Thursday, January 28, 2010

Friday Games






GlobZ

SwapPop

Block Drop

1066

Sandcastle

Down Hill Chill

Rotato (via)

Dr Who Quiz - Last of the Time Lords. I got 8/11.

Chain Connect

Super Mario 63

25 Clever Exam Answers






11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever (via)

The 7 Most WTF Post-Fame Celebrity Careers

6 People Who Accidentally Found a Fortune

25 Clever Exam Answers

10 Places With Morbid Names

Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said By Pat Roberts..

10 Alien-Looking Places on Earth

10 Gamblers Who Beat The Casino

12 Awful Celebrity Tattoos

21 Things We're Learning to Live Without

Technologies we should have by now: Where's our flying cars?

11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History

The 10 strangest books in the English language

The 10 Strangest and Most Bizarre Calendars of 2010

Surreal Science: 10 Sensational New Discoveries

10 Weird Superheroes You Might Not have Heard About

7 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Works of Art

10 Most Famous and Successful People Who Were Homeschooled (via)

10 Craziest New Types of Tattoos (via)

Top 10 Well Deserved Nicknames

The History of the Ampersand






In search of the world’s hardest language

100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know

Teenagers 'only use 800 different words a day'

A Map of Languages in the United States

The History of the Ampersand

Handwriting Is History

Top 10 Famous Last Words and Quotes (via)

How 9 Words Were Coined (and how one wasn’t)

The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary

Top 50 Oxymorons... (via)

Is the Adverb Dying?

Real Life Fairy Tale






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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The World’s 10 Worst Invasive Species






This cow has started drinking her own milk — and it certainly looks udder-ly strange

Ostriches gave up flying when dinosaurs died out

Sexy sparrow exposed as world's most promiscuous bird

No Kicking Penguins

Prairie dogs chat with advanced 'language'

Experts stunned by swan 'divorce' at Slimbridge wetland

Driver Injured after Deer Jumps Inside SUV

Dwarf crocodiles in name training at Cheshire aquarium

The 40-something ski bum

Elephants trained to play basketball

Four fun facts about sloths

Incoming! The World’s 10 Worst Invasive Species

8 Stories of Vicious Man-Eaters

12 Amazing Photos of Animal Fighting

10 Creatures That Crawled Out Of Your Nightmares

12 Beautiful Peacock Photos (via)

Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay

Amazing pictures capture moment a puffin was mugged by a greedy gull

Father and son rescue two deer trapped on a frozen lake

Groups work to protect animals in the aftermath of Haiti earthquake

Turning Trash Piles Into a Bird-Watcher’s Paradise

Exotic pets: British photographer David White takes pictures of lions, tigers and elephants in America

Escape from the jaws of death: How a young wildebeest learned that timing really IS everything

The real Lion King: Why I quit the rat race to live in the African bush

Save the elephant: ivory trading is set to resume

Jaguars Don’t Live Here Anymore

Indonesia eyes pet market for endangered tigers

The Rise of Dog Identity Politics

Helicopter, 50 firefighters deployed to rescue dog

Firefighters came to the rescue of a puppy after the pooch’s head got trapped in a tin of cat food

Fetch Win

10 Weirdest Dog Breeds

In pictures: the 27th annual Aviemore Husky Sled Dog Rally beside Loch Morlich in Scotland

Man stuck in tree after kitten rescue attempt fails

Opee the dog enjoys 150mph motorbike rides

Owners pay to be buried with their pets

=^..^= I Can Has History? =^..^=

Dogs and cats off Chinese menu

Missy the cat gets world's first feline knee replacement

German shepherd treks 700 km home

Farmers turn to man's best friend to guard crops against monkeys

Custody fight over chimp

New MRI analysis shows dolphins are smarter and more self aware than scientists had realized

Deep-sea snail shell could inspire next-gen armour

Blind grandmother lands monster 15st 4lb catfish... and enters the record books

This Is Photobomb