In this clip from National Geographic’s Wild Chronicles, two filmmakers study Johnny Rooks in the Falkland Islands. Meanwhile, the birds sometimes called Flying Devils are having fun with the filmmakers!
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Ants on a school trip! When chaperoning, always remember to count heads and take the roll.
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Seven New Rules for the First-Time Home Buyer. The best advice is to listen to those who aren’t going to profit from your decision. (via Lifehacker)
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The 15 Most Shameless Fake Photos Ever Passed Off as Real. They don’t even look real, but hindsight is 20/20.
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Use this awesome and creepy Japanese generator to animate a still portrait. Or mug shot. Upload, wait, and click your mouse on it for the full effect. (via Fark)
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How the values of Wal-Mart are shaping the US economy. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
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Which goes faster, your sofa or your garden shed? I think the dumpster can overtake them all!
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5 College Bowls With Peculiar Corporate Sponsors. It’s not just the Rose Bowl anymore.
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I’m not going to say I’d jump to work for Walmart, but I will say it’s probably more secure to work at Walmart than at GM right now. It’s interesting that the author used GM as his “good” example and Walmart as “evil”. Pretty one-sided, I think. The country needs crappy jobs; there’s a lot of crappy workers out there. No one is coerced to work at Walmart, or McDonald’s, or to pick cranberries in Farmer Bill’s bog. Thank goodness they can in a pinch, though.
posted by El Zarcho on 9-15-2009 at 10:15 am
Any work done well is valuable.
posted by Hyacinth on 9-15-2009 at 3:22 pm
Hyacinth, obviously you’ve never been in the military and had to paint rocks. :| I’m not making it up, regardless of how absurd that sounds.
posted by Hannibal Schlechter on 9-16-2009 at 11:50 am