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 » Rare albino bull moose caught on camera in Alaska. Fark: and they didn't blow it away [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Women Are Less Interested Than Men in Becoming Top Bosses
According to the “Women in the Workplace 2016” report, many women simply aren’t interested in becoming a top boss. [Link]
Mental Floss » 16 Endearing Facts About Steve Buscemi
6. He is fully aware that his characters often die. [Link]
Mental Floss » Large Study Shows Brain-Training Apps Don't Improve Everyday Cognitive Ability
A meta-analysis of brain-training apps’ efficacy found insufficient evidence to back up their promises of preserving memory and keeping their users sharp. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In today's "Weird or cool from Japan": Pay your Furusato tax and get a ninja sword as a thank you [Cool]
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Mental Floss » There’s a ‘Back to the Future’ Easter Egg in ‘Luke Cage’
Great Scott! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » More creepy clowns sighted in Pierce County, Washington. It's a nationwide coulrodemic [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Learning to Write in Cursive Might Not Be as Important as Your Teachers Told You
The research on how cursive handwriting benefits educational development is spotty. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 91-year-old woman who skipped cancer treatment to travel across the country dies after year-long adventure not spent in a cancer ward [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » As if Hello Kitty AK-47s and "personal massagers" weren't enough, here's Hello Kitty Wine [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Bootstrappy Alaskans livid over reduction in socialism [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » Good News: One Endangered Frog Species Is Bouncing Back
Numbers of Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are on the rise again in Yosemite National Park. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this beachgoer [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What Are Those Tiny Bits of Rubber That Stick Out of Tires?
They're called "nubbins." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: horse gets loose and runs around in town. Fark: Where 'town' = 'Detroit' [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Scam charity ordered to stop fundraising immediately by New York AG [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Death by anti-aircraft fire is a risk for all fighter pilots, whether it's during a vital mission for your country or screwing up the landing at a Best Korean air show [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Don't Miss Monday's Best Amazon Deals and Bargains
As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, October 3. [Link]
Mental Floss » See 'Stranger Things' Reimagined as an 8-Bit Video Game
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: feed Eleven frozen waffles. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » And today's plane caught in a crosswind and forced to miss its landing comes to you from Birmingham International Airport (UK) [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 9 Ways to Get Organized Now
The average person spends 10 minutes a day—or over an hour a week—looking for misplaced items. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » SCOTUS to hear cases involving insider trading, death penalty, taxpayer funds helping religious schools, false arrests. Why not just call ties now, be done with it? [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Report HIV No Longer Detected in the Blood of British Trial Subject
The researchers say they may have found a way to cure the disease completely. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, while working the Sunday rush at the deli, I held up a piece of ham to a blind customer and asked him if it was thick enough. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Improvements to Google Translate Boost Accuracy by 60 Percent
The tool now tackles whole sentences rather than individual words. [Link]
Futility Closet » NYT
We’re on the New York Times’ Numberplay blog again this week, with a probability paradox about three condemned prisoners. I’ll check in during the week and will post a recap on Friday. Thanks to everyone who participates, and to Gary Antonick for the invite! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Connecticut congressman says proposal for $10 billion tunnel under Hartford is "not remotely close to what the Big Dig was." For you younger readers, the Big Dig was a "$2.8 billion" project [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Donald Trump to military veterans: Only weak losers come home from war with PTSD [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Ethan Allen Now Offers a Line of Disney-Inspired Furniture
The beloved furniture retailer is officially a Mickey Mouse operation. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: JuggalOHMYGOD GET IN THE CAR! [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Man survives being attacked twice by the same bear after "doing everything he was supposed to do". Well, except for not traipsing around the bear's home [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Myth of 6-Pack Abs
A set of washboard abs is not the fitness hallmark we think it is. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Attn: Humans: You'll still be necessary after DC's new food-delivery robots roll out–they need your help pressing the walk-signal button [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 11 of America’s Most Unusual Spots to Have a Beer
If you’ve never enjoyed a beer inside a cave, at a former train station, or while grocery shopping, well, you just don’t know what you’re missing. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Reciprocal lutefisk consumption, man seeing porn at McDonald's can't get the Grimace off his face, and people who read Playboy for the articles of clothing: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 9/25 – 10/1 [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » SCOTUS rejects Washington Redskins' appeal, cancels all team's trademarks and name for "being offensive to many people." Team will now have to refer to themselves as "Redskins" [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » The most dangerous cities in America ranked [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Running late for work? Time to break out that "chased by a clown" excuse [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 9 Unbelievable Movie Fan Theories That Turned Out to Be True
Fan theories can be a bit outrageous. They can also be true. [Link]
Mental Floss » "4"-H Week
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Mental Floss » A Seattle Neighborhood Has a Statue of Vladimir Lenin, and It's Up For Sale
The controversial statue in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood now stands outside a Mexican restaurant. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Points are deducted if gravel or asphalt is found in food." Welcome to West Virginia's roadkill cook off [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Is France going downhill recently or is this just a fluke decade? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » World's largest dinosaur footprint discovered in Gobi Desert, proving once again that it was difficult for them to find custom made shoes [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Milka Moo
Introduced in 1948, the "Milka Moo" toy cow had a rubber udder that, when squeezed, would squirt out real milk.
It was one of the many inventions of Beulah Louise Henry (aka Lady Edison). Her inventions made her rich, but she was considered a bit of an eccentric. She lived in New York hotels along with "three sizeable live turtles, … [Link]
Overheard In The Office » 3PM Second Opinion
Doctor #1: Where did you say the patient has been recently?
Doctor #2: Ummmmm, Ghana? Something like that?
Doctor #1: So, Africa.
Doctor #2: No, South America. 525 E 68th Street
New York, New York [Link]
Mental Floss » High-Tech Cage Could Allow Scientists to Study Rats Without Touching Them
The EnerCage could power implants and sensors remotely to give lab animals a more natural environment. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this affectionate family portrait [Photoshop]
[link] [19 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Sun Memories Lamp Records and Replays the Day’s Sunlight
Relive a sunset from the comfort of your bedroom. [Link]
Weird Universe » Mystery Illustration 32
[Click to enlarge]
Why all the same mask? The answer is here. [Link]
Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 124: D.B. Cooper
In 1971 a mysterious man hijacked an airliner in Portland, Oregon, demanding $200,000 and four parachutes. He bailed out somewhere over southwestern Washington and has never been seen again. In today’s show we’ll tell the story of D.B. Cooper, the only unsolved hijacking in American history. We’ll also hear some musical disk drives and puzzle over a bicyclist’s narrow escape. … [Link]
Mental Floss » Beyond “Buffalo buffalo”: 9 Other Repetitive Sentences From Around The World
Repetitive or so-called antanaclastic sentences and tongue twisters like these are by no means unique to English—here are a few in other languages that you might want to try. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The world's deepest underwater cave is so deep, researchers have been looking since 1999 and still can't find the bottom. It's like a 'yo mamma' joke but with more science [Weird]
[link] [202 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The 15 Highest-Paying Jobs That Require Only a Bachelor’s Degree
Business Insider has created a list of the highest-paying jobs that require only a bachelor’s degree. [Link]
Mental Floss » "4"-H Week
[Link]
Mental Floss » Crafty Photographer Creates a Working Oversized Camera Costume
Smile! You're on costume camera. [Link]
FMyLife » wasp infestation says FML
Today, the owner of the house I'm renting said he doesn't want to pay $4000 to fumigate the home, and that he'll take care of the issue himself. I have killed 30 angry wasps in the last hour. There are thousands living in the walls, but I think their favorite place is my bathroom and my bed. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently train data recorders are about as reliable as police body cams [Sad]
[link] [73 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » NY county executive proposes $105 "public service fee" to be tacked on to all traffic and parking tickets, to go on top of the standard $60 "go fark yourself" fee and the $185 "lotsa luck proving we ticketed you for driving while
[link] [210 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The ‘Duck Soup’ Monologue
Check out these awesome links! [Link]
FMyLife » bambisapphic says FML
Today, a street "musician" drummed on buckets directly outside my work for two hours. Right as I was about to lose it, he stopped playing. Within 5 minutes, someone else started playing the saxophone. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » That's no moon [Interesting]
[link] [89 comments] [Link]
FMyLife » bobafett892 says FML
Today, while working at a cell phone store, I helped an older woman learn how to use her newly updated phone. After trying to help her for over 20 minutes, she threatened to throw her phone at my head. FML [Link]
FMyLife » anonymous says FML
Today, my girlfriend and I were going to shower together, things were getting heated until we actually got into the shower and found my roommates fingernail clippings all over the place. FML [Link]
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Mental Floss » Browse the Books Owned by Your Favorite Fictional Characters
We wish some of these were the real thing. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's the classic, tragic love story: Millionaire meets exotic dancer. Millionaire marries exotic dancer. Millionaire discovers exotic dancer is actually his granddaughter [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Farc peace deal rejected, Colombians subject to a month in the politics tab [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Watch a Water Sommelier Explain Why His Job Exists
Plus, what a water-tasting competition looks like in action. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In the old days of terrible college roommates, you could just eat your feelings. Now, you can live-tweet them to the masses [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » What's the Difference Between the Yeti, the Abominable Snowman, and Bigfoot?
Presented by Travel Channel. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 61% of Coloradans are happy with pot legalization. "They said it would hurt the economy, but the economy is booming. They said it would hurt tourism, but we have more visitors spending more money than ever" [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Venezuelans are flying to the U.S. to buy toilet paper, soap, toothpaste, beans, corn flour, tuna fish, mayonnaise and aspirin [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Hamster death sparks riot [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Watch This Selective Attention Test
See how you stack up in a test of visual perception. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Theme: Create a logo for a new soft drink (LGT current logos) [Photoshop]
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