Miss Cellania
Morning Cup of Links: Feral Houses
by Miss Cellania - August 3, 2009 - 4:08 AM
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Feral Houses of Detroit. An estimated 10,000 homes are empty and Mother Nature is claiming many of them. (via Everlasting Blort)
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Microwave dinners usually don’t look like the picture on the front of the package. In this quiz, you’ll be given a picture of what the food actually looks like. Can you tell which box the pictured food came out of? (via b3ta)
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A study has found that vestigial organs aren’t as useless as we once thought. Lose your spleen and you’re twice as likely to die from heart disease or pneumonia.
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Zombie Boot Camp. Looks  like learning to stumble around and rot requires intensive training.
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The International System of Typographic Picture Education is better known to us as pictograms. The system featuring a round-headed man was invented by Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath and German artist Gernd Arntz, who called them Isotypes for short. (via Metafilter)
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Watch this Indian acrobat they call the Monkey King. Spider Man has nothing on this guy!
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9 Things That Might Kill You (If They Actually Exist). What does it tell you that no one has died from them yet?

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Comments (1)
  1. The feral houses link has a sidebar on the side that shows many many more photos of various forgotten or ignored areas of Detroit, Cincinnati, and other places. The feral dogs tugged at my heart strings a bit, as well as the pictures of the school and zoo (zoo pics are scattered, read the captions to pick them out).

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