Miss Cellania
April 18th, 2008
by Miss Cellania - April 18, 2008 - 2:24 AM

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Saturday is National Hanging Out Day! Celebrate by drying your clothes using solar and wind power.
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Test your knowledge of world geography with this eight question quiz, posted by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in response to a survey by National Geographic.
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5 Extraordinary Uses Of Caves. See caves used as a hotel, a school, even a discotheque!
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The 5 Historical Figures Who Died The Weirdest Deaths. Stomach-churningly weird for the most part, but the best was the one who died when a turtle fell from the sky and hit him.
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Scientists have recreated what they believe to be the voice of Neanderthals. New Scientist has very short audio clips contrasting the Neanderthal and modern human speech.
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The 9 Or So Paths To Getting Rich (with analysis of each). After looking these over, seems like my best hope is the lottery.
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Young Me-Now Me challenges you to recreate a photo from your childhood and submit both of them. Or just go see other folks who have done it, with varying degrees of brilliance.
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A cat enjoying a lollipop. Just because.
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Water and house. The evolution of these words started with the symbols that later became the letters that ultimately became the words.

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Comments (2)
  1. I’m waiting for the sequel to the lollipop cat: Cat on Sugar High

  2. We thought it was so cute and clever when out cat Leo picked Froot Loops out of the bowl with a claw. Then we found out he had diabetes. Unfortunately, we couldn’t save him.

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