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ukrainian artist bends sand to her storytelling will

January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Sand animation is the art of storytelling through continuously created and recreated images in sand, and there may be no one better at it than Kseniya Simonova. In the video above, she steals the show on Ukraine’s equivalent of the America’s Got Talent TV show, and has the judges and audience in tears as […]

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Tags: art · beautiful · curio · europe · history · holy crap · images · movies/tv/video · neato · russia · sad · war

iran confiscates nobel prize

November 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

This summer, the Iranian government brutally suppressed citizen unrest following an election that incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad won in a landslide. The consensus — on the left, on the right, and everywhere in between — is that the election was rigged.
Five months later, the anti-Ahmedinejad protests have become more muted — probably due in […]

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Tags: do something · election · holy crap · iran · law and order · middle east · news · politics · sad · scary

nutjob legally brings assault rifle to obama speech

August 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

From CNN:

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) — A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken.

I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous about that sentence — the fact that a guy thought it was okay to bring an assault […]

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Tags: americas · canada · crazy · dumb · guns · holy crap · law and order · montreal · news · obama · scary · usa

giant carnivorous plant eats freaking rats

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments

When I was a kid, comic books always had those little ads for mail-order venus flytraps, with promises that they’d keep your home bug-free by crushing the life out of unsuspecting houseflies with their razor-sharp fangs and super-corrosive digestive juices. When my mom finally got me one, I was a little disappointed — no […]

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Tags: asia · curio · exploring · flora · holy crap · nature · neato

the biggest blabbermouths in congress

August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

How brilliant is this interactive little site?
Well, it can tell you that Washington, D.C.’s lone legislator used a meager 35,679 words in 2008 — enough for a long-ish novella. In comparison, California’s 57 representatives spoke exactly 1,346,968 words — equivalent to 33 regular full-length novels, or about two and a half times the length […]

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Tags: americas · crazy · design · government · holy crap · language · neato · sad · usa

1,000,000,000,000 bytes for $75

May 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I’ve just passed the dawn of my 28th year, and like the song says, I may be getting old, but I’m not old yet. Still, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve passed some magic age barrier that separates the people who are on top of technology from the people who aren’t. Does anyone […]

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Tags: consumer · holy crap · neato · tech

afghanistan quarantines its only pig (also, everyone calm the hell down)

May 8th, 2009 · No Comments

So the posting here has been a little slow for the last week or so — mainly because the rest of my life has been anything but. I’ve got reams of work to plow through and don’t even really have time to be posting right now, but this story was exactly the kind of […]

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Tags: asia · crazy · curio · darn tootin' · dumb · fauna · holy crap · india · irony · medicine · news · opinion · religion · sad · usa

looks like the vegetarians were right…

March 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Much as I hate to admit it.
A new study involving half a million people has found that eating just 4 ounces of red meat or cold cuts each day makes middle-aged and elderly folks 30% more likely to die within a decade. Daily doses of poultry and fish actually decrease your chances of death […]

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Tags: food · holy crap · medicine · news · sad

27 economic downturn charts, graphs and infographics

March 17th, 2009 · No Comments

FlowingData seems to have gotten itself up and running again, and contrary to my previous post, it features 27 neat-o infographics that explain the worldwide financial meltdown, not 16. Very much worth a look.

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Tags: beautiful · design · finance · holy crap · images · neato · scary · stats

egyptian strongman apparently has “260 horsepower”

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In case you’re not an automotive engineer, that translates to the strength of about 104 trained athletes at peak output, or 2.4 Hyundai Accents. Take that, Spock.
I’m not inclined to put much stock in this one, and I can’t find any independent verification of this anywhere, but according to this video report from Egypt’s […]

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Tags: africa · curio · funny · holy crap · middle east · neato