The moon is ringing in the New Year by shining full for the second time this month, and giving us a partial lunar eclipse on the 31st. Too bad we won’t see it in the Western Hemisphere. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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These Canadian ice fishermen are tough. Completely insane, but still tough.
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Anatomy of A Brain Fart. Excuse me, I mean “maladaptive brain activity changes,” you know, doing something stupid when you know better.
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Who knew you, or rather someone with talent, could do such things with a tape measure! I can’t even get mine to meet around my waist.
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Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. For those who are too busy thinking about how the world works to get a haircut.
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The 6 Stupidest Things Ever Done With Historic Treasures. “Reuse and recycle” may be chic, but this is going too far!
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2 Rather Curious Fad Diets. They didn’t stick around because, well, they could kill you.
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I’m also Canadian, and in ON where they say they are, and while a lot of people ice-fish, I have never seen anything like that. Judging by their accent they are from the Maritimes which is a whole other world out there.
posted by Amanda on 12-28-2009 at 9:19 am
When the moon shows up twice in the same month the second appearance is known as the ‘Blue Moon’. It will happen again in Aug of 2012 and July of 2015 (if we survive the end of the world in Dec of 2012 -just kidding)
posted by Owen on 12-28-2009 at 1:33 pm
I don’t know if you can do anything about it but in my browser, Morning is misspelled on the tab for this website. It is spelled Mornign. It is driving me crazy.
posted by veete on 12-28-2009 at 6:19 pm
Sorry, veete. I had the typo when this was published, but corrected it. The old version might show up in your feed, but if you clear your cache and then come to the website, it should be right.
posted by Miss Cellania on 12-28-2009 at 7:14 pm
that tape measure clip was clearly fake
posted by franklin on 12-28-2009 at 9:31 pm