From the Department of Wow: an extreme pool jump. I would never trust my math skills to predict the landing spot properly.
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Maybe not the cutest things, but still deserving of some attention – a showcase of the weirdest animals out there.
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Great topic: six musicians who left bands right before they got famous.
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I featured something similar in the past, but this includes a few new ones – 8 Computer Parts-to-Art Creations. Inspiring!
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Don Draper would not approve: 10 Promotional Stunts That Horribly Backfired.
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Forget a cat door, go for a cat ladder!
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How could I have gone so far in my life and never known the right way to peel a banana? Luckily Jan sent in this informative link to help us potassium eaters every one.
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30 license plates you won’t believe people had the moxie to get. I am not particularly proud (nor perhaps surprised?) of the one the comes from my Atlanta county.
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Extra! Extra! Bubbleologist Samsam Bubbleman blows the world’s largest free-floating soap bubble
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Turns out, the World’s Fastest Car Wash has certain disadvantages. I love the only voice comment on this is “oh merde!” Because really, what else can you say?
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I include these sorts of things from time to time because they never cease to amaze me – 23 Incredible And Creative Origami Artworks.
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From Andi, a link to 150 things to do when you’re bored. This is not one of those bogus lists – it actually has quite a few amazing interesting things. I particularly like this movement.
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On behalf of her fellow redheads, Sarah submits this study: “Redheads’ extra pain may cause fear of dentists.”
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More Creative Death Solutions: Cremation Solutions is offering this lovely option, which involves constructing an urn made to look like you from a photograph. For $2,600, you get the full size. A keepsake size costs $600. Be warned: it does not come with hair! (as if that’s the most worrisome thing about this scenario).
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Can’t find a job? Do the American thing and sue your college instead!
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Another example of David Thorne driving someone crazy through a series of merrily malicious missives – this time, his landlord falls victim. Clever, but I honestly feel bad for the people he messes with.
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The answer to too much Red Bull: Slow Cow.
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I think it’s good for the mind to take this 50 States Quiz every so often. I never miss the same state twice! The M states always hang me up. Any good scores out there for those who got all 50?
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Panoramic view of Earth at night. Take note of the observations made underneath the image as well.
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I got all 50 states in the quiz but that’s because we had to sing the Fifty Nifty song in elementary school. Once you have that memorized, you will never forget them all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGvK8X0KY2Y
posted by Mother Chat on 8-8-2009 at 1:55 pm
Haha, I got them all doing the “fifty Nifty” too, but still forgot a few and had to have the fiancee’s help. We got it with 6:07 left, which I don’t feel is very good.
posted by Lorin on 8-8-2009 at 3:08 pm
Mother Chat: I came back here to make the exact same comment!
posted by NG on 8-8-2009 at 3:10 pm
I did the same thing in elementary school, but it took me longer than it should have because I forgot New Jersey until I reread what I’d put down
posted by Abby on 8-8-2009 at 4:39 pm
I forgot those 12: Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Wisconsin
But then again, I’m from Germany – who can tell me all the Bundesländer from Germany? !
posted by Nessie on 8-8-2009 at 4:54 pm
Took me until 8 minutes to get 49, and then 6:50 to get the one I missed: Ohio.
posted by Case on 8-8-2009 at 6:06 pm
I got all 50 with 7:14 left on the clock.
posted by Tom Hamann on 8-8-2009 at 8:27 pm
It’s the spelling that always kills me. I can’t spell to save my life. Mass always gets me, every time.
posted by Dani on 8-8-2009 at 8:29 pm
I got them all with 7:07, but I had to go geographically, by looking at the map in my head. I spent probably 45 seconds re-working the whole map over and over again, wondering what the one missing state could be, before I finally realized it was Hawaii.
posted by Anneke on 8-8-2009 at 8:42 pm
I got them all with 6 minutes left. I also had to do the mental map, because that song wasn’t yet written when I was in school!
posted by Miss Cellania on 8-8-2009 at 10:36 pm
Fifty Nifty United States from thirteen original colonies! Yeah, sorry Oklahomians, I miss your state until about 2 minutes later at the 6:00 mark.
posted by Chris on 8-9-2009 at 12:26 am
I forgot UTAH!!!!!!!!!!! the only U. only u. now I’m sad.
like my recaptcha forgot the “s” and just put “crewed”
posted by hidden sunshine on 8-9-2009 at 1:30 am
Fifty Nifty strikes again! I got them all with seven minutes remaining, but that’s because I can never spell Pennsylvania right on the first (second, third, or fourth) go.
posted by Carol on 8-9-2009 at 9:03 am
Everyone knows this Nifty Fifty song! I never learned it. I know kids who know the capitals as well – that’s so beyond my ability to memorize.
This quiz has actually helped immensely with my spelling of state names – I no longer fear Massachusetts or Connecticut!
I’ve forgotten New Hampshire, Utah, Nebraska, Minnesota and Pennsylvania (!!) at one time or another. I try to be methodical but it never works out quite right, hah.
posted by Allison Keene on 8-9-2009 at 9:58 am
Everything about that pool-jump video screams fake.
posted by Jake on 8-9-2009 at 11:44 am
For anyone else who dislikes being Flikr slideshows (perhaps because it does not work well in all browsers), just remove “show/with/xxx…” from the end of the URL.
posted by anomdebus on 8-10-2009 at 4:48 pm