Once upon a time, astronauts were as famous as movie stars. NASA apparently wants to bring back those days with cinematic mission posters.
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20 Moments In Strange Pet Walking. Even hyenas need their daily constitutional.
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For years, Viacom paid some people to upload its entertainment material to YouTube and paid other people to get it taken down for copyright violation. This behavior just might jeopardize Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube.
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How to make potato chips in a microwave. Or if you are British, you can make potato crisps.
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Wired has a gallery of twelve trees from all over the world that have outlived everything around them. Some look their age; others could pass for less than a thousand years.
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What do zombies mean? Maybe the fear of an out-of-control world, a metaphor for the oppressor-of-the-day, or maybe we just like to be scared by gross things.
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12 Knock-offs that’ll knock off your socks! Don’t be fooled by the sign; Sunbucks is not exactly Starbucks.
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The link about strange pets doesn’t work.
posted by Walter on 3-19-2010 at 11:22 am
Works for me -I can’t find anything wrong with it.
posted by Miss Cellania on 3-19-2010 at 11:29 am
Thanks for the YouTube/Viacom post! It’s unbelievable that any judge would rule in favor of Viacom after all of their sketchy business practices. They are the ones that should be facing fines, stupid corporation.
posted by Sarah in Canada on 3-19-2010 at 11:48 am
The Strange Pet Walking link worked for me, and, I must say, some of those photos were disturbing. Wild animals, especially lions, hyenas, and crocodiles, are not pets! Keeping them in houses, walking them like you would a domesticated animal, and supporting the exotic animal illegal trade industry are all abhorrent actions and are outright animal abuse! Mental Floss, please do not promote these kinds of behaviors by posting positive articles about them.
posted by Léa on 3-19-2010 at 4:01 pm
I kind of think some of those more exotic ones may have been photo shopped…. or taken out of context, the one with the hyenas and baboons looks like a smuggling ring (not condoning that in any way, it just doesn’t look like those are “pets”). And the miniature horse is a service animal just like a seeing-eye dog.
posted by Mary on 3-19-2010 at 6:13 pm
I’ve seen the one with the hyenas before. The description said he’s something like a gang leader somewhere in Africa, and this is his way of showing how tough he is.
posted by Miss Cellania on 3-19-2010 at 8:24 pm
Wow, that Zombie blog really opened my eyes to what the Left Wing Marxists in this country believe of rural people and survivalists. Such arrogant elitism is amazing to read first-hand.
posted by Eric on 3-20-2010 at 1:41 am