Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Mental Floss » 12 Tattoos Inspired by Famous Books
We’ve seen librarian tattoos, geeky tattoos, sci-fi and video game tattoos, but now it’s a chance for the more educated tattooees to show off their ink with these fantastic literary tattoos. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why did the woman help the ducks cross the road? To get convicted for causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his daughter [Misc]
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Mental Floss » The Summer Homes of 5 Legendary Authors
What do great authors do at their summer homes? Compose our favorite beach reads. [Link]
The Onion » American Voices: New York Outlaws Pet Tattoos, Piercings
New York lawmakers have passed a bill forbidding pet owners from giving their pets tattoos, piercings, and other body modifications under the argument that it constitutes animal cruelty. 
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Mental Floss » What Makes American Whiskey Unique?
Whiskey lovers tend to be particularly territorial about their spirit of choice. Here in America, these allegiances are especially present in whiskey culture. All the different types of whiskey made in America have their unique pulls. Rye whiskey junkies will croon about its spiciness and burn, while bourbon aficionados will pore over the drink's smoothness and its vanilla and caramel … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Actual headline: New Jersey best place for brain-dead patients, experts say [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man allegedly on meth arrested for harassing couple in car he thought was an alien spaceship [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » There can be only one (survivor). Bonus: Subby is a semi-regular at said bar [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Millennials hate their jobs, need more trophies [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: Amazing Before and After Visual Effect Shots
The Before and After Effects These before and after shots of movie visual effects will remind you just how fake a lot of films are. * I’m So Exciiiiiiiiited And I just can’t hide it. There’s an unauthorized Saved By the Bell biopic on the way. * Now Here Is A Marketing Challenge The target market for this company’s services … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Southwest Airlines wants to kill their passengers in a fiery wreck because they serve beer on the plane, says columnist that spends way too much time worrying about other people's drinking habits [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this nomad festival [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What's the Oldest Thing You Own?
On Fridays, we ask a series of unrelated questions. Your answers help get us through the afternoon. Answer one, answer all, or ask your own question. On to this week's topics… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Finally, the pinnacle of your week arrives as you cast aside your normal responsibilities and pit your keen intellect against the most evil, tricky, diabolical questions our quizmasters could conjure. It's Friday. It's the Fark Quiz. You'
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The Onion » Report: Probably Some Reason Soccer Players Entering Stadium With Small Children
Report: Probably Some Reason Soccer Players Entering Stadium With Small Children 
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Mental Floss » 10 Fleet-Footed Facts About Coelophysis
Coelophysis was but a humble player in an ecosystem teeming with strange and wonderful creatures. Yet this early dino proved to be remarkably successful, leaving not only a treasure trove of fossils in its wake, but also a hunter’s-eye look at the world it called home. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » UC Berkley's head epidemiologist on the return of pertussis. The TL:DR? "We're screwed" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Little girl gets her dad a week-long vacation by appealing to Google's tiny remaining shred of common decency [Hero]
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The Onion » Anthropologists Classify 43 New Species Of Weirdo Within Subway Ecosystem
NEW YORK—In a discovery that has greatly expanded the scientific community’s fundamental understanding of oddballs, a team of anthropologists from Columbia University announced Friday the identification of 43 new species of weirdo residing wit… 
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Fark.com RSS » Anti-gay rally happening on National Mall RIGHT NOW, Conservatives estimate turnout in the 3-6 million range. Uh, no wait. 3-6 thousand. Uh, hundred? OK, OK dozen [Fail]
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The Onion » Last-Ditch Dating Website Simply Asks Users To Check ‘Yes’ If They Have Open Sores
NEW YORK—Offering one-click companionship for singles who have exhausted all other options, new last-ditch dating website LastShot.com, which launched earlier this week, pairs users with a partner based solely on whether they have open sores anywher… 
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The Onion » Erik Spoelstra Under Impression Big 3 Will Take Pay Cut To Keep Playing Under Him
MIAMI—As his trio of star players must soon decide whether to stay with the Miami Heat or test free agency, head coach Erik Spoelstra expressed confidence Friday that the team’s “Big Three” of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris B… 
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Futility Closet » Black and White
By Rudolf L’hermet. White to mate in two moves. Click for solution … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Britain's tourism minister says wannabe vacationers trapped in the country due to huge passport backlog take "staycations", under the motto "when life gives you lemons, you can always trust the government to come and shove them up you
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FMyLife » anon says FML
Today, I woke up and put my contacts in. It appears that I got drunk enough last night that instead of soaking my contacts in contact solution, I used mouthwash. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Gibbster_ says FML
Today, my life is so boring that I started looking through my can of coins and sorting them out by year. The oldest coin I have is from 1963. FML [Link]
The Onion » New Department Of Agriculture Study Finds 85% Of U.S. Farmers Woefully Kicking At Dirt
WASHINGTON—According to a Department of Agriculture study released Friday, the vast majority of U.S. 
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Mental Floss » Danger Lab: Scaling Glaciers to Study Minuscule Worms
By Roman Dial, as told to Jed Lipinski Bhutan, August 2012. At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is shockingly clear. Fields of rock and herds of Himalayan blue sheep stand in sharp relief against distant white peaks. Our team—two Bhutanese cooks, two horsemen, a guide, and my 25-year-old son and part-time research assistant, Roman Jr.—has set up base … [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Amazing Animal Photos from National Geographic's Your Shot Community
The assignment "Animals We Love" wraps up June 23; here are 10 incredible images readers have submitted so far. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I have a plan. You aim a laser at an airliner. I'll turn you in. We'll split the $10,000 reward. Deal? [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Weird Week in Review
Woman Photographs Alcatraz Ghost Sheila Sillery-Walsh of Birmingham, England, took a tour of the former prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. She snapped a quick picture of a cell block with her iPhone 5C. When she checked the picture, there was a dark figure of a female in the window of the cell door. Looking up to the real … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Someone is starting an Open Carry Guitar rally. The only way they'll get banned from Chipotle is if someone plays Maroon 5 on it [Cool]
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The Onion » Dead Facebook Friend From High School Still Has Cartman Profile Picture
Dead Facebook Friend From High School Still Has Cartman Profile Picture 
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Fark.com RSS » If the Redskins logo is too offensive for the government, why did they ok "Dago Swagg," "Boobies Make Me Smile," and "PornHub"? [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Officials at JMU expel three male students who filmed and posted a video of their sexual assault on a female student. But first, here's your diploma [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Family claims exotic spider monkeys are living in rural Virginia county. You'd think other people would notice monkeys with eight legs [Strange]
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The Onion » Study: More Couples Delaying Divorce Until Kids Old Enough To Remember Every Painful Detail
CHICAGO—In a new study published this week in The American Journal Of Sociology, researchers reported that parents throughout the United States are increasingly opting to delay divorce until their children are old enough to remember each and … 
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Fark.com RSS » Definitely not a streetlight, there's an 'actual' alien driving this one that was captured by Google Earth Map [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Good news, if you own a car in Los Angeles, you own a home [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Best red light camera video you will see all day of a Clearwater motorcyclist who gets slammed by a car, does a double cartwheel over the car, flips around, gets up and walks away. Tada [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Bender's head causes security scramble and massive delays for Connecticut suburban rail commuters, wants you to come to Foxwoods for BLACKJACK. AND HOOKERS [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark-ready headline: "Cross-dressing man commits meth-fueled sexual assault, crime spree" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » New Jersey health and safety experts' advice for safe kids' summertime fun is about one-third common sense and two-thirds pants-wetting nannypanic. Left out: don't go into Camden or Newark, and don't use the governor for shade [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Berkeley to add carbon-shame labels to gasoline pumps. Are you ashamed yet, you horrible, horrible, fossil-fuel-burning, earth-hating monster? SHAME [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Thanks to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and Kenya, we have 51.2 million people displaced in the world. The highest since the end of WW2 [Sad]
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The Onion » Magazine: The Top 50 Films Where A Horse Gets Shot
The Top 50 Films Where A Horse Gets Shot 
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Mental Floss » 6 Beach Reads From 100 Years Ago
We present some forgotten, fun reads of the past that you can read on Google Books [Link]
Fark.com RSS » One million Iraqis have fled from ISIS. Number expected to rise once civilians are counted [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: Not On
It's time for another open-ended Free-for-All Friday mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge. Enjoy! Give ONE example of an English word
that begins with the letter sequence "OFF." EXAMPLES: OFFICE, OFFBEAT, OFFSPRING Please add your single entry to our
comment list below, and have a great weekend! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Underage drinkers have terrible taste in beer [Obvious]
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The Onion » American Voices: FDA Proposes Social Media Guidelines For Drug Companies
In order to prevent the posting of misleading information about medications, the FDA has proposed social media guidelines requiring drug companies to post both the benefits and risks of a drug, which experts say effectively limits their advertising on Twi… 
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Fark.com RSS » Mission Creep: President Obama got you smiling and nodding in agreement when he said only U.S. Military Advisers were heading to Iraq? Pssst, dirty secret, U.S. Military Advisers have been fighting for years [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Dutch press angry about gay-only village hoax, neglect to remember that Amsterdam already exists [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Tulsa man charged with masturbating in a Walmart. No, not the Tulsa guy from last month, this is a completely different guy. What the hell is going on at that Walmart? [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Do Polka Dots Have Anything to Do With Polka?
Sure, it’s a fun name, but is there a link between this spotted pattern and actual polka? The answer is a resounding “kind of.” Let’s begin at the beginning. What we now call polka dots have been around for centuries and, over the years, they’ve gone by several aliases. In the mid-1800s, for example, little round spots were a common … [Link]
Mental Floss » Man Wearing Mentos Suit Dropped in Tank of Diet Coke
And what makes Mentos and Diet Coke react this way? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ric Romero recalls his involvement in the OJ Simpson Bronco chase. That would be a Ford Bronco, which was a motor vehicle made by the Ford Motor Company, not an untrained horse or one that habitually bucks [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » And just like that, the Pope is no longer cool [Obvious]
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Weird Universe » A Case of Censorship
This brief item ran in the UCLA Librarian newsletter (Nov 1, 1957) and seems WU worthy:
Transcribed text:
“Our incredible customs"
Under the above heading the British Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of September 21, 1957, records another round in the running battle with the censorious customs officials. "Now I understand that officials recently impounded a work called Rape Round … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How embarrassing will it be to think that you're going to be known in prison as the guy who tried to kill someone with grits? [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark After Dark, June 27, 6pm, Frankfort KY [FarkParty]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this edged estate [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 10 Amazing Animal Photos from National Geographic's Your Shot Community
The assignment "Animals We Love" wraps up June 23; here are 10 incredible images readers have submitted so far. [Link]
Weird Universe » Edmond Was a Donkey
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Fark.com RSS » "On one hand, I felt happy because when your daughter becomes god, having a god in the home is a delightful thing" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » A Texas woman was arrested for what? A) Drinking and driving. B) Picking up six children after swim class. C) Making the children ride home on the hood and trunk of the car so her car interior wouldn't get wet. Or D) All of the above [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Cheerleading Stunts
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Fark.com RSS » Judge orders deployed military member to be in two places at once or lose custody of his daughter. Tag for judge [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 7 Tricks to Make Every Room More Efficient
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FMyLife » latinalocks says FML
Today, while working in a call center at a university, someone threatened to report me to the President of the University because "I" wouldn't accept their daughter who had a 1.5 GPA and "got accepted into Harvard". I don't even make the decisions, I just answer calls. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cookies worth $52,000 seized at Newark airport [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » After visiting Colorado, British reporter predicts there would be suicides, killings, and toddlers in the hospital if England legalized marijuana [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Dude, if you pay for services from a prostitute and then impersonate a cop to get your money back, you probably won't get it back and the police would like to have a word with you [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Best Rock Movies
The 25 Best Rock Movies Ever Made. Find the highest-ranked film you’ve not yet seen, and make it your weekend entertainment.
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Here’s A Dude In A Suit Made Of Mentos Getting Dropped Into A Vat Of Diet Coke. And that’s the way to promote… whatever you want to promote.
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34 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About The Lord … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Everyone in this Brazilian family has six fingers on each hand, and they are rooting for their home country's soccer team to win their 6th World Cup [Amusing]
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FMyLife » forever alone says FML
Today, I was video chatting my boyfriend. As we were talking, he answered a phone call. I sat there the whole time as he planned a date with some other girl over the phone. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Fuck you, Dad. Fuck you. says FML
Today, I asked my dad if he'd like to see the photos of my wedding, which he didn't bother to come to. Reply: "What the fuck, are you gay or something? Keep that homo stuff to yourself." My wife started laughing so hard she was crying. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What better way to raise awareness about online exploitation of minors than to replace kids' eyes with screaming mouths? (with OMGKILLITWITHFIRE examples) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The collapse of Iraq would actually help the oil industry [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » How did we get this far without kumquat & beet flavored toothpicks? [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » The stench of death will soon hang heavy in Michigan and it's got nothing to do with Detroit [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » A Noisy Exit
In August 1883 James Wallis, the chief of police on the small island of Rodrigues in the western Indian Ocean, added this note to his official report for the month: On Sunday the 26th the weather was stormy, with heavy rain and squalls; the wind was from SE, blowing with a force of 7 to 10, Beaufort scale. Several times … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former porn star to run for school board… and you've already clicked the link before I can say that the former porn star is a dude [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The good news is that it's now illegal, at least in New York, to tattoo your pet. The bad news: people have been getting their farking pets tattooed [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Scientists find cure to greatest epidemic of our time: baldness [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Supreme Court unanimously rules that public sector whistleblowers are protected under First Amendment rights when they raise flags on matters of public concern, unless they are Snowden [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Teenager who lost half a finger during an illegal rave says he stayed and partied and didn't seek medical attention because the bass had been dropped and it was "hard" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Mother of the Year candidate brands her children so that she can remember which is which [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Men steal more than 7,000 pennies to buy heroin, demonstrating more cents than brains [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » You seem fat and lazy, here's a recipe for making pancakes in a rice cooker [Sick]
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FMyLife » fuckmyjob says FML
Today, at my first day working at Walmart, a customer asked if we have any egg cookers. I said I wasn't sure, but that I'd be "eggstatic" to go ask for him. The first clue I got to suggest he hated puns was him yelling "Don't get smart with me, boy!" and then threatening to kill me. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Obama is the first 3D-printed president [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 10 Recipes from the Kitchens of Classic Hollywood Stars
Here are 10 recipes from stars of Hollywood’s classic era, as found in Frank DeCaro’s book 'The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: A Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen.' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Anti-tax muppet Grover Norquist wants to rename the Washington Redskins to something even more stupid and offensive [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Mortician forced to store corpse in her car overnight when body is determined to be too fat for the morgue [Sick]
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FMyLife » EmptyGlass says FML
Today, I found out how stupid my girlfriend really is. She saw my room for the first time and started yelling at me, calling me racist, white trash for having a Confederate flag hanging on my wall. It's a British flag. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, as I was having sex with my husband, a booger fell from his nose and into my mouth. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » The Missing Links: United States of Revenue
The United States of Revenue This map lists the highest revenue-generating company from each state (see larger here). Try to guess your state’s before you look. Arkansas, Oregon, and Texas all seem obvious. But I would not have guessed that for New York. If you're confused about any of these choices, there's an explanation on the data-gathering here. * One … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Jennifer, the very first Photoshop demo example. Photoshop her again [Photoshop]
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