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 » Whatever happened to Lord Lucan? None of it may be true, but it's all a good read. Especially the bit about the tiger [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » WHO: Sexual transmission of Zika a 'concern.' I thought he'd only gotten as far as first base [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 12 Futuristic Facts About ‘Escape From New York’
Thirty-five years ago today, John Carpenter set the standard for dystopian cinema and created one of the most iconic sci-fi films ever made. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Niagara Falls residents have no idea why the University of Iowa fight song is playing all night every night in their downtown, but would like it to stop [Strange]
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Mental Floss » What's the Exchange Rate Between Harry Potter Coins and Muggle Money?
A reddit user recently analyze the worth of wizard money—and it really puts Harry's wealth into perspective. [Link]
Mental Floss » This Cat Video is Taking Over New York's Times Square Every Night This Month
You can stand in the center of the New York City hub and watch this cat sip milk. [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Is Pee Yellow?
Yellow pee is a sign that your body is healthy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It was only a matter of time before scientists concluded Super Bowl parties may be killing you [Sad]
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Mental Floss » The Ongoing Hunt for a Capsule That Landed on the Moon 50 Years Ago Today
So scientists are searching the Moon pixel by pixel to find what perhaps one day could be some sort of national park for lunar inhabitants. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You may be having a bad day, but at least you are not having a "crashed one of the few remaining flying P-51C Mustang" kind of days [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » HHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKK *yoink* … *splash* [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Your boat prop is fouled by rope. News: A 350-pound tiger shark fouls your boat prop. With pic goodness (Graphic images in article) [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Jenlagged: A Comic Travelogue from Angoulême (Part 5)
American cartoonist Jen Vaughn is currently there and is creating a live comic travelogue about her experience at the 43rd annual Angoulême International Comics Festival. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, after a badly misjudged hand signal, I accidentally hit my boss in the face instead of high-fiving her. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Ishikur says FML
Today, I tried to explain autism to my classmates. One of them, a professional cunt who's always looking for an excuse to lecture people, accused me of being "ableist" because my explanations weren't accurate, and said I shouldn't explain things I don't understand. I'm actually autistic. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania [Silly]
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Mental Floss » 15 Facts for Norman Rockwell's Birthday
The artist is still celebrated for depicting Americana at its best. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Latin American Catholics have to decide which is worse: Using birth control, or getting a little head [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » Watch 100 Years of Zombies in Pop Culture in Under Three Minutes
From drinking special potions to "turn" to being particularly adept at running, the changes over the years are more than just an upgrade in makeup effects. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Who knew closing the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant could cause an environmental disaster? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Spanish judge says it's still okay to toss turkeys from bell towers. Just to clear that up [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this ruler of whatever [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The Man Who Made the Looney Tunes Sound Effects
Treg Brown was the person responsible for all of the wonderful sound effects in the old Looney Tunes. Learn more about him and his process of creating them. * Analogies aren’t just handy ways to understand complex concepts. They actually shape our thoughts. * John Kasich is running for President and he has at least one unique campaign platform: Get … [Link]
Weird Universe » Porn, Accidentally Shown
There was a recent case in which some x-rated material was accidentally shown during a funeral for a father and son. This got me interested in similar cases where this has happened. So I dug into the archives and came up with a list of incidents, stretching back some fifty years, involving porn, accidentally shown.
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Fark.com RSS » That's not hair on the Starbucks mermaid, it's a burka [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » Who Was Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue"?
Though it’s one of Buddy Holly’s most famous tunes now, “Peggy Sue” was almost an entirely different song. [Link]
The Onion » News in Brief: Wealthy Donors Pump Millions Into Sanders’ Campaign In Last-Ditch Effort To Destroy His Credibility
NEW YORK—Grasping for any way to halt the Democratic candidate’s momentum, a coalition of wealthy donors reportedly pumped millions of dollars into Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign this week in a last-ditch effort to destroy his credibility. “Unfortunately, our attempts to attack his message and brand him as a radical have had little effect on his poll numbers, so the only … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Last year saw a record number of exonerations, with 149 wrongful convictions being reversed nationwide, with 54 in Texas alone. Not sure whether that means TX is the most serious about getting justice right or they wrongfully convict a LOT of people
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Fark.com RSS » Is a cow a "who" or a "which"? Well, it depends on whether the cow weighs more than a duck [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Watch This Giraffe Give Birth to a Tiny Calf at a South Carolina Zoo
A live streaming webcam caught real-time footage of the baby giraffe just moments after it was born. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: Woman ships her car from Alaska to Seattle. News: Finds her condoms are missing from the car. Fark: Also finds this note: "I took your condoms… used them with a lady co-worker (smiley face). Would love to tell you about it" [Creep
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The Onion » American Voices: Lady Gaga To Sing At Super Bowl
The NFL has confirmed Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at the upcoming Super Bowl, just one week before she is scheduled to perform a David Bowie tribute at the Grammy Awards. What do you think?
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Fark.com RSS » Scottish drunk inadvertently tapes PSA about why shopping for booze on a hoverboard is a bad idea: "Lassie from the shop sent us this CCTV of me on the hoverboard on Sunday gettin more scoop. Smashed the vodka" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » "This Taco Bell lasagna cost $80 and was worth every penny" [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » 5 Financial Planners Share Their #1 Tip for Managing Money
"Set it and forget it" applies to your savings, too. [Link]
Mental Floss » Grave Sightings: Richard Gatling
Dr. Richard Gatling invented a lot of things, but he's best known for the deadly creation that bears his name. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Psychologist: Fark is good for you [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » The coolest full-day time lapse of Pompeii being buried by Mount Vesuvius that you've seen in 2,095 years [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Birth Mother and Her Daughter Reunite After 82 Years Apart
More than eight decades after her baby was taken away by the state of New York, a 96-year-old woman has been reunited with the child she never knew. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Flooding has caused a Ginger Nut and Custard Cream biscuit shortage in the UK. EVERYBODY PANIC [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Our friends the Saudis can indeed be compassionate, and have reduced the death sentence for a dangerous poet to a mere 8 years and 800 lashes [Asinine]
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The Onion » News in Brief: Aerosol Can Surprisingly Upfront About Giving You Cancer
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Taken aback by the packaging’s unexpected honesty and directness, sources expressed surprise Wednesday upon noticing that a can of brand-name aerosol disinfectant was so forthright about giving you cancer. “Look, it says ‘CONTAINS KNOWN CARCINOGENS’ almost as big as the Lysol logo—damn, they really went for it,” said 29-year-old resident Maureen Benthos as she inspected the can while … [Link]
Mental Floss » Infants Can See Image Differences That Adults Cannot, Study Finds
Babies may be able to see image details that are invisible or imperceptible to adults. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nitrogen brings a new element to Sam Adams beer, makes you feel like you've got helicopters flying around your brain for 30 seconds when inhaled [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Mumbai garbage fire was so huge you could see it from space, and probably smell it from there too [Scary]
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Futility Closet » Unquote
Further excerpts from the notebooks of English belletrist Geoffrey Madan (1895-1947): “Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.” — George Eliot Wit is a new and apt relation of ideas: humour, of images. Use of words “vision” and “supremely” an infallible sign of the uneducated. “No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men … [Link]
Mental Floss » Do I Really Need to Take Vitamins?
Do vitamin supplements improve your health—or do more harm than good? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New York and Illinois residents aside, do you know the tallest building in your state? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "It might be tough to focus on a roulette strategy while live dealers are taking their bras off" [Giggity]
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The Onion » News in Brief: Researchers Announce They Don’t Have Heart To Reveal What Will Happen To 1 In 5 Women
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA—Having difficulty looking gathered members of the press in the eye, researchers from the University of Virginia announced at a news conference Wednesday that they didn’t have the heart to reveal what a recent study determined will happen to one in five women in the U.S. “You really don’t want to know what our findings say 20 percent of … [Link]
Mental Floss » Solemnly Swearing: 9 Times Oaths Are Required
Sometimes it's ok to swear. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You know that Flint Emergency manager who refused a subpoena? US marshals are hunting him down now [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Naked teapot man. New hotness: Evening gown asscrack man (possibly not safe for work) [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're planning to swim off the coast of Palm Beach, watch out for the thousands of sharks just swimming about [Florida]
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Mental Floss » The Position of the Moon Slightly Affects the Rainfall on Earth
Scientists compared rainfall data with lunar position and found a distinct pattern. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Article explains what "Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop" means. Or you could just settle for learning what he's been arrested for this time [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Still "Stone"d
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Fark.com RSS » On your next flight, as you're fighting for overhead space and having your legs crushed by the reclining asshat in front of you after paying the $367.31 in fees, try not to think about how there might not be any air traffic controllers in the tow
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Fark.com RSS » Huge population of endangered lions have been found in Ethiopia. Researchers promise stronger safeguards by isolating the area, using 24 hour surveillance, restricting Minnesota dentists' travel visas [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Michigan is now undertaking a five-part plan to see if the drinking water in Flint is safe. Although when it comes to testing Flint's drinking water, it was probably a poor choice to use the term "undertaking" [Followup]
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The Onion » News in Brief: FBI Counterterrorists Launch Media Campaign Downplaying Symbolic Value Of Golden Gate Bridge
WASHINGTON—Describing the structure as purely utilitarian and devoid of any inspirational characteristics, officials from the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division launched an international media campaign Wednesday downplaying the symbolic value of the Golden Gate Bridge. “When Americans look at the Golden Gate Bridge, they see some towers and cables and that’s about it—it’s certainly no more an embodiment of American values than … [Link]
The Onion » News in Brief: Zika Virus Joins Lack Of Paid Leave, Unaffordable Child Care As Reasons Woman Afraid Of Getting Pregnant
GALVESTON, TX—Amid a spate of public health warnings this week regarding the infectious disease’s devastating effects on fetal development, the Zika virus reportedly joined a lack of paid maternity leave and unaffordable child care as reasons why local woman Shannon Kemp is afraid of becoming pregnant. “I was going to hold off getting pregnant for a few years anyway out … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » CNN broadcasts location of "secret U.S. airstrip in Syria" that is the "key to success to repelling ISIS" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » What has Jobu been up to since Major League? Well, it appears he shaved his head and got into Santeria (w/ pics) [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Make Breakthrough in Controlling Type 1 Diabetes
They were able to transplant healthy human pancreatic cells into diabetic mice without triggering an immune response. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Rest of world's mass transit public-service messages: "We apologize for the unanticipated delay." New York mass transit public-service message: "Some guy got killed…I hope the motherf-ker suffered" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » A couple at a Walmart engage in a silly-string fight. Jailarity ensues [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Sons of dead Angolan warlord say his portrayal in the new Call of Duty game makes him look like a "barbarian brute" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ So you had a bad day, you killed off your character. You made the other mute then you turned the plot around. You had a bad day ♫ How badly has your progress suffered this week? THIS is your weekly Fark Writer's Thread. "What ha
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Fark.com RSS » Visit Tokyo zoo where today you can see a panicky pantomime zebra being poked with a stick [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Orangutan Preschool Is (Not Surprisingly) Too Cute for Words
The International Animal Rescue organization has opened “forest schools” where orphaned baby orangutans learn how to survive in the wild. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman selling house after ghosts start smacking her on the ass: "I was bending over the sink brushing my teeth and something gave me a smack. It wasn't a tap – I got hit so hard" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Germans fire up the largest stellarator fusion device in the world. What could possibly go wr [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Townspeople: "Go home." Patriot protestor: "I … want to know how many of them live here, how many are paid actors" [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » 10 Timeless Facts About ‘The Land Before Time’
Five years before 'Jurassic Park' roared into theaters, a gentler, more meditative dinosaur film endeared itself to audiences of all ages. [Link]
The Onion » Slideshow: Onion Sports’ Guide To Super Bowl 50
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Mental Floss » Why Are Hotel 'Rack Rates' So Exorbitantly High?
It's often several hundreds of dollars more than you would likely actually pay for the room. Why? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hamas unveils its newest battle-ready parade float [Amusing]
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The Onion » American Voices: Gene Editing Experiments To Begin In Britain
A controversial form of gene editing has been approved for testing in Britain that involves modifying the DNA of human embryos, an experiment that researchers hope will improve fertility treatments. What do you think?
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Mental Floss » These Bookmarks Feature the Little Legs of Literary Characters
The collection includes the feet of Harry Potter, Bilbo Baggins, and C-3PO. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Science Behind Why You Can Make Snow—Even When It's Above Freezing
All you need is water, air … and a giant snow gun. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Rand Paul for Senate [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this emptiness [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 10 Museums Devoted to Household Items
Why not create a museum for mustard, dinnerware, or hammers? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » When your hair is as drunk as you are, you deserve to get a DUI [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Cannabis suppositories? In MY vagina? It's more likely than you think [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » It’s Official: Tom Hanks is America's Favorite Movie Star
As if there was any doubt. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Meet the Korean woman who saved 200 dogs from becoming lunch [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » With Electroadhesion, Robotic Fingers Are Getting Closer to the Real Thing
The electrode flaps can grab and lift an egg without breaking it. [Link]
Mental Floss » Still "Stone"d
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Fark.com RSS » The pajama-bottoms-in-public epidemic is so bad a judge had to have a framed sign put up reminding people to GET DRESSED before coming to court [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Denmark: We don't treat our convicts like sub-human animals [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Google Engineer Creates Homemade Smart Mirror
Get the weather forecast while brushing your teeth. [Link]
Weird Universe » Bus Driver Asks Kids If He Should Hit Dog, Then Does
January 1994: A school bus driver in Port Washington, Wisconsin insisted he was only joking when he shouted out "Should I hit the dog?" seconds before he hit a dog on the road. The animal belonged to two of the children on the bus. It often came up to the road to meet them. The driver, who later resigned, blamed … [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Versions of Popular Technology That Didn’t Make the Cut
The process of discovery leaves behind a trail of ideas that didn’t pass muster, and the road to just about every breakthrough we’ve made is littered with alternate versions that got left behind. [Link]
Weird Universe » Johnson Smith Catalog Item #37
Click to enlarge. From the 1930s catalog. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The German army's new camouflage uniforms would be amazing…if anyone could actually see them [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman who regrets getting '420' tattooed on her forehead does what any other self-respecting individual with good judgement would do and starts a GoFundMe account to have it removed [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Americans spent more on legal pot last year than they spent on Cheetos, Funyuns, and Doritos combined. That $5.4 billion would have funded both New Horizons and Curiosity space missions. With pensive pic of cute tourist pondering a plenitude of pot [
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: A Bizarro History
Great links from all over! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You might be OCD if you are part of a group that untangles other people's knotted yarn for only the price of shipping. "You just have to remember that any piece of yarn has only two ends" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » No, you're not allowed to rent out your dorm room on Airbnb [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Five ways your employer may be violating your rights. No, requiring you to clean out the fryer at the end of the day isn't one of them [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 7 Nearly Forgotten Foods Found On Restaurant Menus of Yesteryear
We used to eat mock turtle, calf's feet, and peacock, among other unusual delicacies. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Christmas Tree Worm Has Eyes on Its Gills
The ocean is a weird place. [Link]
Mental Floss » The University of Kentucky Now Offers a Class on Tacos
Taco lovers at the University of Kentucky are in for a delicious treat. [Link]
FMyLife » oh, shit…… says FML
Today, I was at the gym. At the end of my workout, I realised I lost the bundle of keys I had in my pocket that contained the key to my locker with all my stuff. I panic and start looking for them. After an hour of desperate searching, I find them thrown in the bottom of the public toilet. … [Link]
GraphJam » Just Start the Fight Over
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: arguments , fighting , life , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Clear and Present Danger
Graph by: skyywise Tagged: law , Lawyers , loans , money , Pie Chart , politics , school , ughghgh Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » What happens to your social media accounts, email and online finances after you die? The Florida Legislature is trying to figure it out [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Disneyland-Scented Candles Will Hit You With Serious Nostalgia
Light one of these candles and transport yourself back to Disneyland. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Drexel College designates new off-campus residence hall as "foodie dorm" for food-obsessed hospitality majors. "Programming planned for the learning spaces includes cooking classes and lessons on ways to start and manage restaurants or fo
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Mental Floss » This Machine Lets You Automatically Brew Your Own Beer
Tired of how long it takes to create a homemade IPA? MiniBrew can help you with that. [Link]
Mental Floss » Special Nano Coating Makes Water That Can Be Shaped and Sliced
This new material acts like liquid Play-Doh. [Link]
FMyLife » zachhewett says FML
Today, at my job drug testing high schoolers, I see that one of the kids selected for the testing looked incredibly high. So, after he goes in the bathroom and gives me his cup with his urine inside, I take a closer look and see that the little shit jizzed in the cup. I hate my job. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » G-5. You sunk my battleship [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Listen to These 7 Sound Sculptures
Some art is intended to be viewed. And some art is meant to be heard. [Link]
Mental Floss » This MIT Professor is Starting a Radical University With No Lectures or Majors
The new school would blur the line between grad and undergrad. [Link]
Futility Closet » Grist
A few adventures of Dashiell Hammett, who worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency before turning to fiction: “I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel.” “I was once engaged to discharge a woman’s housekeeper.” “I was once falsely accused of perjury and had to perjure myself to escape arrest.” “A man whom I was shadowing went out into the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Guards in Iran torture prisoners for up to 15 hours straight. Don't they have labor laws? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Burger King employee uses his car to ventilate the restaurant after gas leak prank. Now with video goodness [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Thanks to influence of manly men's movies The Hateful Eight and The Revenant, fashionistas proclaim men wearing fur as Next Big Thing [Weird]
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Mental Floss » 9 Classic Cocktails to Know (and Order) to Sound Like an Adult
There comes a time in every drinker’s life when combinations of booze and soda no longer cut it. To help you through this time—and to help you make a good first impression on, say, a date or during a business dinner—we’ve put together a list of cocktails that sound fancy, but are probably only a step outside your comfort zone. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Crime has gotten so bad in Washington D.C. that the D.C. City Council unanimously approved a bill to pay residents not to commit crimes [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » Looking at Nature Improves Kids’ Academic Abilities
Stop studying and go outside! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Denver officials release 28,000 pesticide-contaminated marijuana products back into the market despite Colorado governor's executive order to destroy them. "Obviously we looked at (the XO), and it's good to see that information out there&
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Fark.com RSS » So Jesus walks into a pizza parlor [CSB]
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Mental Floss » World's Most Remote Inhabited Island is Looking for An Experienced Farmer
If you’re an experienced farmer who likes sheep more than people, a far-flung volcanic archipelago in the South Atlantic has the perfect job for you. [Link]
Mental Floss » This Beautiful Concert Hall in Poland Looks Like a Cave
The Culture and Congress Center Jordanki recently opened its doors to the public in December 2015. [Link]
Mental Floss » Fly By The Dwarf Planet Ceres With This NASA Animation
Get up close and personal with one of the solar system's largest dwarf planets. [Link]
FMyLife » wideeyeddays says FML
Today, my dad thought it was a great idea to text me and say he decided to put our dog down. I was in the middle of class and still had hours left at school. It's not fun to walk across campus holding back tears. FML [Link]
FMyLife » sideeffect001 says FML
Today, I found out that my tax filing status was never changed after my divorce. This means I haven't been paying enough and now the government wants its money. FML [Link]
FMyLife » HBSLICE says FML
Today, my cellphone-hating teacher called someone during class, so I called him out about it. Turned out his wife was having a tumor removed, and he was calling to see if she was okay. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Things Invented by Famous Writers
When Margaret Atwood got tired of long book tours, she developed a pen that would sign books for her long-distance. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Georgia sets execution date for a 73-year-old inmate apparently 'cause they're worried if they wait any longer they might not get to [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » World's heaviest man, attempting to lose weight, dies after developing energy drink habit. "His consumption…was the equivalent of a person with no health problems consuming 42 cans of Coke in three days" [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this mushroom [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Limiting Food Waste Can Save You $1500 a Year
It's time to rethink your grocery list. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Double-up with Debbie: CDC confirms case of Zika Virus in Dallas acquired through sexual transmission [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 'Little House on the Prairie' Fans, Rejoice: The TV Show Will Be Made Into a Movie
The film will follow the antics of Laura "Half-Pint" Ingalls and her resilient pioneer family. [Link]
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