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If you’re sick of all those tired old “greatest Olympic moments” round-ups, check out Neatorama’s collection of five truly bizarre moments in Olympic history, including a British ski jumper with Coke-bottle glasses who had never seen a ski jump, two Kenyan cross-county-skiiers who had never seen skis, and a German track star who was […]

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From an exchange between the eminently reasonable British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) and the lunatic hothead American Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), in the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964):

Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can’t say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that’s what […]

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I do a lot of writing and editing at work, and I find that if I listen to music with lyrics (at least ones I can understand) I end up spending more time singing along in my head than getting down to business. For office music then, that pretty much rules out anything in […]

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Back in April, I posted a photo montage of a man who’d taken a photo of himself every day for six years, set to Carly Comando’s darkly brilliant “Every Day” piano instrumental. To take a break from the doom, gloom and penis-enlarger obituaries that have dominated this site for the last few days, I […]

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Kermit Scott, the inspiration behind Jim Henson’s most beloved muppet character, has died.
The real Kermit taught philosophy at Purdue and Yale before his desire to help others led him to earn a Master’s degree in counseling and launch a new career at the age of 57. He and his wife co-founded the Welfare Rights […]

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Steven Jay Russell escaped from prison an astounding four times, each time on Friday the 13th. Apparently, most of his escapes were motivated by a desire to be with Philip Morris, a cellmate he fell in love with during his second stint in jail.
Here’s a sample of his exploits, from Wikipedia:

Russell got out […]

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How’s that for a headline?
Florence and the Machine are a good old-fashioned British ass-kickin’ band. Here’s the video for their song “Kiss with a Fist”:

According to her BBC bio, she “makes the kind of music Lily or Kate would make if they’d grown up locked in a cage full of snakes in the basement […]

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You know the old joke: “What do you get when you cross Vincent Price, Michael Jackson, 1,500 Filipino inmates and a transvestite?”
I think I missed the boat on this one, and some of you have probably already seen this. But sweet mercy it’s fantastic. If you ever go to jail in the Philippines, […]

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There’s something just beautiful about this. And something creepy…
ASIMO can run, speak, climb stairs, serve coffee, navigate through crowds of people, link up to computer networks, deliver weather reports and recognize faces, speech and environments. He works as a receptionist at Honda’s offices in Saitama, Japan.
In case you’re interested, ASIMO is taking some […]

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In case you’re not familiar with the original We Are the World, it’s a song written for charity by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and sung by an all-star cast including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and, oddly, […]

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