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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.
I’m waiting for the sequel to the lollipop cat: Cat on Sugar High
posted by gmsc on 4-18-2008 at 4:50 am
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.
posted by Barbwire on 4-18-2008 at 7:54 pm