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If this isn’t the strangest thing you’ll read today, it’s up there. A woman in China has apparently lost all hearing in her left ear after a session of “passionate” kissing with her boyfriend. The BBC reports: The doctor who treated the girl in hospital was quoted in the paper explaining what had happened. “The [...]

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I just read the news, and I gotta say, it made me a little bit sad. Polaroid has announced that it will no longer manufacture the gee-whiz insta-photo film that made it a household name. Though it’s leaving the photography business, Polaroid will continue to make portable DVD players that you’ve never heard of, as [...]

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Nathan over at FlowingData has stumbled upon yet another neat-o tool that’s as unscientific as it is fun to play with: StateStats is like Google Insights but on a state level. Type in a search term and get Google search levels with correlations to certain “metrics” like obesity or support for Obama. Since he’s a [...]

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A big thank-you to CNN for picking up my post on Roméo Dallaire! EDIT: 17:40 EST Proving that the world is in fact a Möbius strip of awesomeness, this CNN article just linked to my post about the article linking to me. To the CNN Web person who’s been checking out this little site: you [...]

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CNN reports: In 1993, Romeo Dallaire was full of hope for the future of Rwanda. The Canadian lieutenant general and son of a soldier was about to take up the biggest command of his career — leading United Nations peacekeepers in the central African nation. A year later he left Rwanda a broken man, having [...]

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I’m a little pressed for time, and I didn’t have the foresight to set up a delayed post last night, so just a little one today: Hardware giant Logitech has just announced the sale of its one billionth mouse, meaning it has made one mouse for every 6.7 people on the planet. If a mouse [...]

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The presidential pardon has got to be one of the strangest traditions in Washington. How exactly is justice served when an outgoing president hands out clean slates to a dozen or so convicted criminals, just because he’s a few weeks away from retirement? Why should a president have the power to bypass the courts and [...]

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Equal parts gimmicky and awesome, the Black Cab Sessions feature musicians from Lykke Li and the Cold War Kids to the Raveonettes and Martha Wainwright, all playing in the back seats of London’s iconic black cabs. The videos on the official site can sometimes be more than a little choppy, but the Youtube versions seem [...]

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With their country’s economy reeling, Britons in search of inexpensive pastimes are apparently shopping less and shagging more. The BBC reports: A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping. The Scots were most amorous with 43% choosing sex over other pastimes, compared with [...]

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