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.”
Fark.com RSS » I scream, you scream, we all scream when the ice cream truck goes missing [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » If you like your beach sand seasoned with howitzer projectile boosters, the Jersey Shore is the place for you [Scary]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I bought my first vibrator. I was really excited, until my crippling OCD kicked in, forcing me to turn it on and off seven times in rapid succession, causing it to give off a cracking sound and stop working. Now I'm sad. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was fired for not asking a senior citizen for proof that he was over 21 and legally allowed to purchase alcohol. When I told my manager he was clearly over 21, he replied, "But what if he WASN'T?" FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Where Exactly Is Anne Boleyn's Body?
Poor Anne Boleyn had a pretty rough 1536. First, a pregnant Anne discovered her husband was having an affair with Jane Seymour, one of her ladies in waiting. Some believe the shock and betrayal caused Anne to suffer a miscarriage in early February—and at least one report says it was the boy Henry VIII so desperately wanted. The birth of … [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Tips for Scooping and Storing Ice Cream
Three Twins Ice Cream founder Neal Gottlieb shares his tips for scooping maximum deliciousness out of your next carton of ice cream. [Link]
Mental Floss » Accurately Painting 3D-Printed Objects By Dipping Them in Water
Image Credit: Screenshot via Youtube How do you paint a weirdly shaped 3D-printed object with a complex pattern? Take it for a dip in the pool. A new color technique pioneered by researchers at a computer graphics and visualization lab at Zhejiang University [PDF] involves dipping an object in water while coating it in a multi-colored film. This paints the … [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Old-Timey Ways of Saying “Nonsense”
Balderdash. Codswallop. Bunkum. Poppycock. The English language has dozens of weird ways of calling out someone for talking utter rubbish—and these aren’t even the strangest. But as ridiculous-sounding as some of these words are, they all still have their own histories and etymologies behind them. Balderdash is thought to have originally been a random mixture of frothy liquors, or the … [Link]
Mental Floss » Name the Places With 5-Letter Long Names
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Mental Floss » A Gorgeous and Extensive Video Game Map
iam8bit is now selling a delightfully gorgeous video game poster that puts all of your favorites in one world. “When we compare the spaces, places, and landmarks of videogames to the regions found on Earth, we find mountain ranges, deserts, oceans and ruins—just like our Swiss Alps, Sahara, Pacific and Stonehenge,” the website says. The map includes over 100 different … [Link]
Mental Floss » The Review That Was So Harsh, James Whistler Sued His Critic (and Won)
L: Whistler, CC: Public Domain // R: Ruskin, CC: Public Domain The mere act of an artist confronting a critic usually signals a victory for the latter party. The artist is removed from his or her perch, the playing field is leveled, and the art is no longer speaking for itself. James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the eccentric 19th century American … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Radio Shack would like to thank you, its former customers, for providing it with all that juicy personal information that it could sell as part of its bankruptcy settlement [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » 17 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America
Advice from Russians on navigating the peculiarities of American life. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 7 money saving myths that actually cost you money. Difficulty: You only believed these myths were money-saving if you were an utter moron to begin with [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Cannes Film Festival announces new rules banning women from wearing flat shoes [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Might want to dial back the smug a bit, white collar workers. The robots are coming for your jobs next [Scary]
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Mental Floss » A 'Star Wars' Fan Is Restoring the Film to Its Original, Unaltered State
Everyone knows that the original three films in the Star Wars franchise—in their original, unaltered states—are way better than any series entry made since then. But while you can still enjoy the early-day antics of Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie, you can't watch the original originals. Beginning in 1997, George Lucas and his production company Lucasfilm started tinkering with the … [Link]
Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The Colonel Returns
Colonel Sanders is back. Check out the video. * These satellite timelapses give a startling look at just how drastically and how quickly we are transforming certain corners of the planet. * It’s a big, blue watery road. Check out 12 badass boat trips from around the world. * The Daily Beast has an interesting article about a prison chaplain … [Link]
Mental Floss » This Scanner Makes Packing (and Unpacking) Boxes a Breeze
Just when you think the worst of your move is over—the truck has pulled away, your furniture is (hopefully) in place—it’s time to unpack. And celebrate! But wait—where’s the bottle opener again? And how, exactly, are you supposed to open all of these boxes when you can’t remember which one you threw the scissors in? A team of students from … [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Types of Imaginary Creatures "Discovered" In Fossils
Wikimedia Commons // iStock The wild and colorful mythological creatures that our ancestors dreamt up—dragons, unicorns, griffins—didn't all originate as mere flights of fancy. In some cases, ancient fossils protruding from the earth may have inspired the ideas behind these mythical monsters. In more recent years, showmen and the uninformed have deliberately displayed fossils as “evidence” of imaginary beasts—after all, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I keep a double-barreled shotgun loaded with double-aught buckshot right beside the bed. I wouldn't shoot to kill, but I'd sure have burnt their hind-ends up. You'd have been interviewing me about my arrest" [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » An Innovative New Timelapse Video Constructed From Online Photographs
The University of Washington and Google have teamed up to create incredibly impressive timelapse videos of popular tourist locations using pictures pulled from the Internet. The team first collected a whopping 86 million photos and organized them by location and vantage point. They were then sorted in order of date; next, the viewpoints were warped to match, and the colors … [Link]
Mental Floss » SpaceX Travel Posters Sell The Perfect Mars Vacation
One way to sell space exploration to the masses: make it look like a classy, vintage vacation destination. SpaceX, the private aerospace company that currently runs resupply missions to the International Space Station, has released a series of retro-inspired posters depicting Mars as the galaxy's go-to destination. Similar to the fictional Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters released by NASA earlier this … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » $100K settlement finally reached over deaths of two people who drowned in tank full of molasses. If only there were some kind of analogy for how slowly justice moves sometimes [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark-ready headline: "West Texas country music festival Crude Fest leads to drunk man stabbed in butt" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » New bladeless wind turbine will vibrate birds to death [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Dude, where's my duck? [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these art-hanging men [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 8 Great Moments From David Letterman's All-Too-Brief Acting Career
After David Letterman retires from late night, perhaps he’ll spend his free time fishing and catching up on all the novels he’s been meaning to read. Or maybe, just maybe, he’ll resurrect his acting career. Though Letterman has always preferred to appear as himself onscreen, over the years he has taken a handful of acting roles. As we near his … [Link]
The Onion » American Voices: Report: Cannes Bans Women Not Wearing High Heels
According to reports from some publications covering the Cannes Film Festival, a number of women who were wearing flats instead of high heels were turned away from the red carpet for a high-profile screening unless they changed shoes, and actor Josh Brolin allegedly responded that he would walk the red carpet in high heels to protest the policy. What do … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There are close calls and then there's the "claiming your $1M lottery prize with a taped together ticket," close call [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "And now, kids, to teach you the value of life, I'll eat this hamster" [Sick]
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The Onion » Graphic: Breakup Survival Tips
Everyone goes through breakups, but learning how to deal with your feelings and find closure can help you get over your split in a healthy, productive way. Here are some tips for surviving your breakup and moving on from your relationship:Establish a support network of close friends and anyone else who will remain quiet about having to shoulder the burden … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I shot an arrow into the air, it pulled out my tooth then fell somewhere" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Resourceful Russians with cancer find ways to cut through the ponderous medical bureaucracy [Sad]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
macrotous
adj. having large ears capitose
adj. large-headed dolichoderous
adj. long-necked ventripotent
adj. having a large belly dolichopodous
adj. having long feet sciapodous
adj. “That resembles the Sciapodes; having very large feet.” The post In a Word appeared first on Futility Closet. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In the most compelling argument ever made for the widespread use of CCTV cameras, they let you watch 81-year-old women get run down by runaway tractor tires. Don't worry, she was fine, she's laughing with us right now. Probably [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Pretty sure one of the tasks of being president of the European Union is to know which countries are in the European Union [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » High winds at one of the most dangerous airports in the world made for a scary weekend of rock and roll [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Horses Whinny in Two Different Frequencies to Convey Emotion
When it comes to the complexity of their vocal range, horses have more in common with singing birds than other mammals. Domestic horses are social animals that prefer to live in herds, and they disseminate information over long distances by whinnying, which research suggests can convey information about the caller’s identity, sex, and body size. Whinnying also allows horses to … [Link]
Mental Floss » How Nashville's Neighborhoods Got Their Names
Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0 Nashville was named after Revolutionary War General Francis Nash. Established at an area along the Cumberland River referred to as French Lick—due to a salt lick that attracted animals and thus French fur trappers—the settlement was originally dubbed "Nashborough" but renamed Nashville in honor of the French. Belmont Boulevard 
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Mental Floss » 10 Misconceptions About English
Elliott Morgan debunks a few myths about the English language. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This government is full of BEES [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Domino's delivery guy robbed at swordpoint by bicycle-riding ninja hipsters [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Hey everyone body, let's all visit the World's longest and highest glass-bottomed Nope [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Nightmare Is Real: It's Raining Spiders in Australia
Image Credit: Nephila edulis by dilettantiquity, Flickr // CC BY SA 2.0 Arachnophobes, grab an umbrella. In one Australian town, it’s been raining spiders. Let that sink in: Spiders. Falling. From. The. Sky. The phenomenon, while inspiring for any would-be sci-fi horror writers out there, is a fairly routine part of spider migration that has been observed by scientists since … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A hysterical man's take on the new Mad Max. "My scrotum killed itself" [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » 15 Ideas That Have Helped Shape American Cities
Cities are living things, forever changing and adapting. Over decades and centuries, people have adapted their towns to look and function in certain ways, to ease traffic, maintain a certain visual identity, or improve business. Psychology, local climate, politics, and pure whim all dictate how cities develop over time. Here are 15 reasons the urban world looks and feels the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If aliens do exist, they're probably the size of bears. Or maybe they ARE bears. We don't really know [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » You see us as you want to see us. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, Danny Partridge, and a criminal. Well, six criminals [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The Duggars are trying to get pregnant, something new and different [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Camera Case Takes Pictures of What Dogs Get Excited About
We all know what humans like to take pictures of—friends, food, sunsets—but what would happen if you gave a dog a camera? It turns out, mostly the same thing. Nikon's new project, adorably named Heartography, outfits dogs with a special harness that can read heartbeats and sends that data via Bluetooth to a connected camera, which snaps a photo when … [Link]
The Onion » American Voices: FAO Schwarz Closing Flagship Store Due To Rising Rent
Due to the rising costs of Manhattan real estate, high-end toy store FAO Schwarz will close its iconic Fifth Avenue flagship location and look to open another store elsewhere in the city. What do you think? 
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Fark.com RSS » Nightmare fuel. You're welcome [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Free, no subscription required porn home delivery service started in Southington, CT [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » The best pictures of a Tasmanian Sea Sparkle flash mob you'll see this week [Cool]
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The Onion » Commentary: Until I Had Kids, I Never Thought I Could Love Something Almost As Much As Myself
Having a child can be the most transformative experience of a person’s life. You get so used to living your life a certain way—focused solely on your job, your social life, your personal goals—and then, just like that, it all changes. That’s what happened to me last year when my daughter, Jane, was born. Until that moment, I never in … [Link]
The Onion » News in Brief: New Report Finds Humanity 10 Years Away From Something Called Ash Age
TUCSON, AZ—Explaining that the large-scale shift in geologic conditions and social organization would require a new taxonomic classification, researchers at the University of Arizona released a report Tuesday revealing that humanity is approximately 10 years away from something that will be called the Ash Age. “According to our projections, within the next decade, conditions on Earth will become such that … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Good news, Kim Jong Un is a climate "believer" [Dumbass]
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The Onion » Horoscope: Your Horoscopes — Week Of May 19, 2015
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FMyLife » username says FML
Today, my girlfriend suggested we start using a safe word during sex – not because we're into BDSM or anything like that, it's just in case she gets bored and wants me to stop. FML [Link]
FMyLife » earthlyscum says FML
Today, I woke up to my roommates "pet" snake casually lying in bed with me. I then got yelled at for screaming and scaring the snake. Apparently, it's my fault that it bit my chin. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » The World's Greatest Maple Syrup Heist
In 2012, Michel Gauvreau stepped into a nondescript brick warehouse with a big job on his hands. The warehouse, located in the small Canadian town of Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, contained one of the world’s most precious stockpiles—nearly 16,000 giant drums stacked to the ceiling, each containing $1,800 worth of maple syrup. Gauvreau, an accountant, was there to take inventory. His task: Count … [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "-amel"-gamated
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Mental Floss » 17 Action-Packed Facts About 'Crimson Tide'
It has been 20 years since we almost faced a fictional third world war. Do you know where your key is? [Link]
The Onion » News in Photos: Toddler Adjusting To Society After Serving 2-Minute Timeout
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird / Plus, May 19, 2015
News of the Weird / Plus
May 19, 2015 (Part 2) [weird stuff that made me excited (frightened) (ROTFL) (appalled) last week, some of which will appear in News of the Weird soon] [Part 1 on Monday, Part 2 on Tuesday]
Best Protests: (1) After Turkey’s Istanbul Technical University announced it was building a popular new “landmark mosque,” dissenters at … [Link]
Mental Floss » Why is the Vlasic Pickles Mascot a Stork?
Birds and pickles go together like peanut butter and jelly—wait, what? Crazy as it may seem, the Vlasic Pickle company felt that was the case and chose a stork to represent their brand in 1974. Some 40 years later, the ubiquitous mascot doesn’t seem so weird anymore. But what prompted Vlasic to choose a stork in the first place? First, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Confusion over the appropriate punishment for smokers reportedly led to a fight that killed 12 ISIS members in February" [Fail]
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Weird Universe » Spider Rain
Watch it if you dare……
And we're all moving to Australia! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New guide to help Brits survive in jail published: "Prison is much safer than your average provincial high street on a Friday night" [Interesting]
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The Onion » Mothershould: How To Successfully Sue Other Moms Who Steal Your Parenting Tricks
On Mothershould, Grace Manning-Devlin helps viewers build a legal case when their parenting tricks are used by parental plagiarists. 
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Fark.com RSS » Caption this awkward conversation [Caption]
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The Onion » News in Brief: Hillary Clinton Campaign Shuts Down After Blowing Through $2 Billion In First Month
NEW YORK—Having grossly miscalculated the resources required for an 18-month presidential bid, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday she had ended her race for the White House after blowing through $2 billion of campaign funds in a single month. “Admittedly, my staff and I haven’t kept a close enough eye on our financials over the past few weeks, and certain … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I got stopped by people asking for donations for their charity services. Being who I am, I hate saying no to people, so I told them "I don't have any money, only my card." Did you know they also accept payment by card? FML [Link]
Weird Universe » The Clavilux, or Color Organ
The Clavilux was a device that displayed a psychedelic light show on a screen. It was invented by Thomas Wilfred in 1919, who hoped that it would become so popular that one day every home would have one. That didn't quite work out. Though one of these sitting in your living room definitely would be a conversation piece. More info. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this ground support [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » San Francisco power failure caused by metallic balloon. At least it wasn't a plastic grocery bag [Fail]
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Overheard In The Office » The Episode Of Bosom Buddies That NBC Has Been Keeping on the Shelf.
New IT guy: I watched those guys do it like that, and I tried it that way. I ended up with juice in my mouth. It was gross.Washington, PennsylvaniaOverheard by: Interim IT Manager [Link]
Overheard In The Office » 12PM Research 401(k) Options
Co-worker #1: What? You don’t contribute to your 401(k)?
Co-worker #2: No, but it’s my New Year’s resolution.
Co-worker #1: 2 words: free money! 2 words, a bunch of syllables: free money. 1615 H Street NW
Washington, DC [Link]
Overheard In The Office » On His Unbirthday, the Mad Hatter’s Staff Tried Hard to Please him
Warehouse manager: Anyone seen Joe*?Office manager: I don’t know where he is. He sent me an email at 2:03, so he’s at a computer somewhere.Sales guy: I haven’t seen him in a while.Office manager: I bet he went home and he’s sending these emails from the web-mail!Assistant: No, I went out to the warehouse not long ago and passed him … [Link]
Overheard In The Office » But That's the Definition Of “Vice President”
VP to another: There's a lot I do around here that wastes my time… and other people's time.Durango, Colorado [Link]
Overheard In The Office » What Happens When Word-of-the-Day Calendars Don’t Include Definitions
Cube dweller: Well, you don’t want to be ambiguous in your genocide.31355 Oak Crest Drive
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Overheard In The Office » 11AM Personal Call
CSR on phone with daughter: My mom never picked me up when I had cramps. You’re staying at school. Period. 473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey Overheard by: office peon [Link]
Overheard In The Office » 5PM That’s Enough for Today
Suit #1: Oh, fucking great. This is how– [Jon] is getting married. And I have to sign this stupid card along with everyone else like–
Suit #2: Wow, hostile much? We barely know him.
Suit #1: Oh, I know his fiancee quite…ugh, never mind. 71 5th Avenue
New York, NY Overheard by: Intern hears all [Link]
Fark.com RSS » On one Greek island, two villages celebrate a festival by shooting fireworks at each other. "The most risky thing is that the rockets are launched sideways and not up in the air" [Cool]
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Weird Universe » Ostrich Feather Fan
Just in time for summer!
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Fark.com RSS » Behold the Rectum Opus [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » All our lives we've been falsely told that when it comes to olive oil, don't cook it on high heat, you can judge it by its color, and she's really a C-cup [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » "-amel"-gamated
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Fark.com RSS » How not to fark that chicken, how to rotisserie that chicken the extreme BBQ way [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » NYPD commissioner considers granting amnesty to 1.2 million low-level offenders charged with minor crimes such as simple possession of marijuana, drinking in public, selling untaxed cigarettes [Interesting]
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Overheard In The Office » The Global War on Terror Hits Another Snag
Tech #1: There. Translations are done. All nine languages.Tech #2: That was fast. I didn’t even know you spoke Arabic much less any of the others.Tech #1: It’s easy — just highlight the text and change the font.Tech #2: What?!Tech #1: Yeah. We should hear back from the Army in a day or so. I went ahead and sent the new … [Link]
Mental Floss » Sea Turtle Gets Hooked Up With a New 3D Printed Jaw
Thanks to a 3D printed prosthetic, this sea turtle now looks like a supervillain [Link]
FMyLife » Swabidizop says FML
Today, I had the most rancid fart. My dog woke up from his nap and bit me as punishment. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Medical technology students suing college, claiming they were forced to practice procedure on each other. Come on already, what's a little transvaginal probe between classmates [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The FBI has ruled out a bullet shooting the windshield as a cause for the Philly Amtrak crash. Gay Muslim affirmative action hire still on the table [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Welcome to Nintendo Land!
Welcome to Nintendo Land: 14 attractions at the Nintendo theme park of our dreams. Let’s see if Universal is open to any of these ideas for their theme parks.
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How to Grow a "Bee Beard.” If you do this, please let us know why you would ever want to.
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GraphJam » I Can Graph to Potato
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GraphJam » Press It Again!
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GraphJam » Likelihood of You Knowing the Answer to the $1,000,000 Question
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GraphJam » ROFLOMGBBQ
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GraphJam » How MPH Works
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GraphJam » Interaction with Your Alarm Clock
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GraphJam » My Cat's Interest in Me vs. What I am Doing
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GraphJam » Whiteboard Use
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GraphJam » It's Just a Little Sat On Is All
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GraphJam » At Least Auto Correct Is Consistent
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GraphJam » Replotted: Let's Just Hope There's No Overlap
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GraphJam » I Believe in a Thing Called Love
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GraphJam » Rating: Guys vs. Girls
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GraphJam » Didn't You See Jurassic Park?
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GraphJam » Good Thing You Can Still Find Dirty Pictures on Social Media Sites
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GraphJam » What book teenagers dig
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GraphJam » CharacterBCs
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GraphJam » BYO Chicken
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GraphJam » What I know about Buddhism
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GraphJam » Singing along to R.E.M It's the end of the world
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GraphJam » It's a Familiar Taste
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GraphJam » The Difference Is Grease
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GraphJam » Odds of Missing a Note on Guitar Hero
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Fark.com RSS » Remember back when you were a teen you could throw rocks at your buddy's window in the middle of the night trying to wake him up and not have to worry he would shoot you? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're an American, the idea of retiring in a Mexican beach community in a condo sounds like delightful. Until the Mexican government decides to seize the condo and there's nothing you can do about it [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Fifteen secrets of the Colorado State Capitol Building. The fact that Denver is the secret capital of the U.S. strangely absent [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If for some reason more than 30 bags of cocaine worth $175,000 accidentally fell from your boat into the Galveston Bay, good news: The Galveston police found it [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Texas legalizes certain medical marijuana. That will make your spurs spin [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Torture is always wrong. That includes water boarding your girlfriend's 4-year-old son [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » Your Hometown Affects How Likely You Are To Get Married Early in Life
Anecdotally, you probably knew that where you grew up affects when you get married, or at least suspected it. But it's still interesting to see how the data lines up with other political and socioeconomic factors. Last week, The New York Times compiled data from Harvard economists into a series of maps and tables that consider how the county you … [Link]
Mental Floss » 100 Years of Beauty in One Minute
The YouTube channel Cut Video profiles a century of female beauty with their series 100 Years of… In the first episode, which clocks in at a little over a minute, a model is transformed by a team of hair and makeup artists into the beauty ideal for white women in America for every decade of the 20th century. Episode two … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Good news: State agency director wants to enforce the law. Bad news: He works for the State of Arizona and is fired by the governor for doing his job [Stupid]
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Futility Closet » Making Pi
We’ve mentioned before that you can estimate π by dropping needles on the floor. (Reader Steven Karp also directed me to this remarkable solution, from Daniel A. Klain and Gian-Carlo Rota’s Introduction to Geometric Probability [1997].) Here’s a related curiosity. If a circle of diameter L is placed at random on a pattern of circles of unit diameter, which are … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, one of my idiot co-workers thought it'd be hilarious to "fix" my car while I was working. Now every time I step on the brake pedal, the horn goes off. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I saw a real, erect penis for the first time. My brother's, while he was jerking off. He doesn't know I saw, because he was holding a pair of panties over his face with his other hand. I'm trying like hell to act like I'm not mentally scarred. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Great Snoots of the Animal Kingdom
Image Credit: iStock A nose isn't just a house on the face for the nostrils. Some of nature's most notable beaks can regulate heating and cooling, filter particles, act like fingers, or woo the ladies. These five great animal schnozzes, snoots, and suckers do a lot more than sniff. 1. Saiga (Saiga tataricus) Saiga antelopes live on the unforgiving plains … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coffee has definite health benefits. That 1000-calorie slushy mocha thing you're drinking? Not so much [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "A former tank commander is taking his cats on a quest to visit every war memorial in Britain – on a mobility scooter" (pics) [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » This Sweater Is Also a Physical Therapist
Image Credit: Vigour Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen’s latest creation is better suited to a doctor’s office than a runway. Vigour, her collaboration with smart textile designer Martijn ten Bhömer, is kind of a wearable physical therapist. The sweater, woven with sensors and conductive fibers, is aimed at older adults, especially those with dementia. The sensors, located in the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So many people are sleeping in garbage cans that companies that empty dumpsters are installing CCTVs on their trucks so they don't crush any more of them to death [Scary]
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Mental Floss » This Scratch-Off World Map Helps You Chronicle Your Travels
"I Was Here." [Link]
Mental Floss » Scientists Revert Bird Beaks into Dinosaur Snouts
The non-avian dinosaur Anchiornis and tinamou, a primitive modern bird, with snouts rendered transparent to show the premaxillary and palatine bones. (John Conway) All birds have beaks. That’s because they’re genetically programmed to—and rewriting those instructions could teach us a lot about how our fowl friends evolved. A rewrite is exactly what scientists from Yale and Harvard have accomplished, according … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You have been pronouncing "Parmesan" wrong this whole time. Oops [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't be "that guy" in the neighborhood. No one likes "that guy" [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 11 Strange Remedies Used By Renaissance Doctors
The Renaissance may have been a time of great scientific and artistic innovation, but the era’s medical treatments still had a ways to go before they became safe and effective. Here are a few questionable cures a Renaissance doctor may have prescribed you. [Link]
FMyLife » colorfun says FML
Today, I surprised my 7 and 1.5 year old girls with a princess dinner. I quickly realized it was a scam when the "princesses" arrived looking more suited to a bachelor party. I was able to quickly get the girls out, but have spent the evening explaining why Pocahontas was heavily tattooed. FML [Link]
FMyLife » fuckingdonuts says FML
Today, my boyfriend stopped in the middle of sex to ask if I wanted to get donuts. FML [Link]
FMyLife » lily_marleen says FML
Today, I had an outdoor meeting with some important clients. It wasn't until the meeting was over that my coworker decided to inform me that I had bird poop in my hair "pretty much the entire time." FML [Link]
Mental Floss » A Brief History of LA's "Witch House"
Paul Narvaez, Flickr // CC BY NC 2.0 One of the houses on Beverly Hills’ North Walden Drive is not like the others. With its steeply angled roof, askew shutters, rickety picket fence, and moat, the Spadena House—or, as some call it, the "Witch House"—looks more like it belongs on the set of a fairytale film than on a street … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Go home (with a warning) Air India pilot, you're drunk [Scary]
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