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NASA released an image of the earth and the moon in one picture, as seen from Mars. Beautiful- you can even recognize South America!
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25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies. Life is good when you can watch cartoons and feel both entertained and edified.
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Kiplingers has released a car buyer’s guide. Their picks are broken into categories (including used cars) and price ranges.
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Flunking the Pepsi Challenge. The company has a long history, but do all corporations make this many missteps?
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How to keep your skin healthy, using ingredients from your kitchen. Strange, after watching this video, I found myself craving a salad.
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WR 104 is a binary star on the brink of exploding, possibly into gamma-ray bursts, which can send a narrow beam of destructive rays to far away planets. Here’s why we shouldn’t worry about it.
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Video Compilation of Embarrassment: Classic faceplants, accidents, and general ineptitude. We never tire of this kind of thing, do we?
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On Music: the strings in Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz couldn’t play the piano, but he was the most romantic of all the Romantics.
Oops! The “Earth and the Moon picture” link is actually the same link as the “healthy skin from the kitchen” link.
posted by Michael on 3-5-2008 at 5:17 am
Yikes! Glad you caught that! Fixed now.
posted by Miss Cellania on 3-5-2008 at 5:31 am
Thanks for the Pepsi Challenge Failures. Strangely funny.
posted by beth on 3-5-2008 at 10:35 am
the faceplant video had me laughing, even tho I know many of those were planned – i mean how many women have someone video taping them when getting out of a cab, when their skirt just ‘happens’ to get caught in the door…or their wheel just happens to come off their bike…still, stupid people do stupid things and I laugh…
posted by donner on 3-5-2008 at 10:54 am