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The Legend of Master Legend. Rolling Stone takes a hilarious look at the lives behind real life super heroes. (via Neatorama)
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Photographs of people re-enacting memorable panels from Gary Larson’s The Far Side. I don’t even need captions to laugh all over again!
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25 of the Greatest Self-Made Men in American History. Finding a man like this is a lifetime project -I know!
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Numbers are Innate. I’m surprised; I thought the process of learning math is why we have all these fingers and toes.
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Stealing a Tank? The guy who did it had a smashing good time, and cameras were there to record the carnage.
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Please Don’t Divorce Us. A large and growing Flickr set in reaction to California’s Proposition 8.
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Reasons to have a green roof. No, not the color, a roof growing grass or other plants!
The Flickr set was awesome and incredibly moving. Why would anyone want to hurt these people, these men, women and children? In Canada, we’ve had gay marriage for years… we’ve not turned into a fiery lake. I will proudly and happily attend the blissful union of my niece to her wife next year… Let Love Rule!
posted by Marion on 1-2-2009 at 1:45 am
Actually, the “tank” video is not so funny. The guy who stole the tank, after wreaking thousands of dollars in damage around the community and endangering dozens of lives, eventually high-centered it on a freeway median. At that point, the police mounted the vehicle, and attempted to arrest the driver. The driver resisted arrest, and was killed.
This story is at least ten years old.
posted by --Mike. on 1-2-2009 at 8:38 am