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 » 6 Finnish Terms You'll Want to Use in English, in Emoji Form
One of them quite literally means "underwear drunk." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cop told to 'tone down gayness' for promotion [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Use Facial Recognition Software to Identify Wild Lemurs
The astoundingly accurate LemurFaceID program could aid conservationists in tracking individual animals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Peeping Tom drones? It's not unusual [Creepy]
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Mental Floss » Most College-Bound Seniors Know ‘Literally Nothing’ About Paying Off Student Loans
The nation's total student loan debt is over $1.4 trillion. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you live in Germany and bought your daughter a "My Friend Cayla" doll you need to go into her room and destroy it immediately or face up to two years in jail [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Google's New A.I. Experiment Lets You Play a Piano Duet With a Robot
Spoiler: The robot is better than you. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's not the Virgin Mary, it's a tumor [Awkward]
[link] [39 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Animal Planet’s New Show Takes You Behind the Scenes at the Bronx Zoo
"The Zoo" shows the conservation work zoo visitors don't see, from raising abandoned baby tigers to helping blind gorillas navigate. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If the dam breaks, you will all die, but we're pretty sure we've fixed it with sacks of rocks [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember when you used to hate taking tests in school, and now you do it for fun? It's the Fark Friday Weird News Quiz [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 5 Research-Backed Tips for Successful Negotiations
Negotiation isn't a battle, it's a joint problem-solving session. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Orlando man accused of plotting to blow up stores in stock manipulation scheme. To be fair, they DO have a giant Target on them [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lonely traffic cop [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Inside Canada's Annual International Hair Freezing Contest
At the Sourdough Rendezvous festival in Whitehorse, icy locks are the ultimate bizarre fashion statement. [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Do I Have to Put My Phone in Airplane Mode?
It comes down to the possibility of a split second of interference. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Alligators in your neighborhood? Don't worry, you can always call into the nuisance alligator hotline [Florida]
[link] [44 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Archaeologists Are Excavating a WWII Internment Camp in Hawaii
The Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp will eventually open as a national monument. [Link]
Futility Closet » Waste Not
British Columbia woodsman Francis Wharton shot a deer in the late 1960s but had no serviceable teeth with which to eat it. With venison steak hanging in the balance, Wharton extracted the teeth from his deer, filed and ground them to what appeared a handy size. He then chewed up a wad of Plastic Wood, molding it to the shape … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The City of Houston has a new policy to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. "We have spent in excess of $250 million, over a quarter-billion dollars, prosecuting a crime that has produced no tangible evidence of improved public safety"
[link] [292 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » North Carolina Man Charged with Stealing 1000-Pound Chicken Statue
A birthday present from a poultry farmer to his wife, the statue mysteriously disappeared overnight. [Link]
Mental Floss » How Swedish Students Let Off Steam—By Screaming in Public
Need to scream? Head to Sweden. (But don't try it just anywhere.) [Link]
Mental Floss » Heavy Rain Heads for California—and the Oroville Dam
Conditions will go downhill in a hurry through the day. [Link]
Mental Floss » Fat Freezing Could Be the New Botox
Fat reduction without injections or scalpels is catching on. [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Things You Might Not Know About Peet's Coffee
Peet's founder launched the American gourmet coffee industry in California 50 years ago. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Random Acts of "Kind"ness
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when you set down something small like a ring or a screw or a patient's tumor and then you can't find it again? [Fail]
[link] [42 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Pixar Rolls Out Free Online Storytelling Course
The course includes lessons from the directors of "Up" and "Brave." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Lolsassin was allegedly duped into offing Kim Jong Nam, thinking it was just a hidden camera prank show [Followup]
[link] [100 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Fierce Rapids of the Congo River Create New Fish Species
The turbulent waters divided a group of fish so thoroughly that they evolved into separate species. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Wisconsin beer garden in February? Let's do it [Spiffy]
[link] [74 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Facts About 'Scent of a Woman'
Pretending to be blind and dancing without rehearsals seriously hurt the two famous Tango partners. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Museum of Ice Cream is coming to L.A [Silly]
[link] [36 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Dubai May Soon Be Home to the World’s First 'Rotating Skyscraper'
Each independently rotating unit will cost $30 million. [Link]
Overheard In The Office » According to a Reliable Bathroom Wall
Coworker: No… Honestly, if you give a man enough estrogen and provide enough nipple stimulation, he will produce milk. Wellington
New Zealand [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pro tip: airlines don't feed passengers so pack your own horse genitals [Awkward]
[link] [49 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man waiting for a train [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Ski masks for chilly cheeks
Almost as bad as styling on the slopes.
Source: Teenagers' Weekly – July 3, 1963 [Link]
Weird Universe » Psychomania
Full story here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Who head butts their 70-year-old mother twice? Honestly [Asinine]
[link] [61 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Giant Pieces and Boxes of Candy You Can Actually Buy
For people with a serious sugar tooth. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Glasgow police mocked after releasing 'useless' CCTV stills of a man they want to speak to that are so blurred they look like impressionist paintings: "'We have clearer pics of the surface of Mars" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Fake news writer who took credit for putting Trump in the White House now says he regrets taking credit for putting Trump in the White House [Followup]
[link] [70 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Random Acts of "Kind"ness
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Mental Floss » Add Some Elegance to Your Cooking With This Swan-Shaped Ladle
Your saucepan deserves a little class. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Eight years ago the biggest issues the White House had with the media were reports on Michelle baring her arms and Barack daring to put spicy mustard on his hamburgers [Silly]
[link] [141 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Movie Pie Fights
Here's some links for your weekend websurfing! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Australia, if the dropbears don't get you the catgaroos probably will [Weird]
[link] [38 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Negative Words That Turned Into Positive Words
Historically, the words "sick," "wicked," "ill," and "bad" have had negative connotations, but can now mean just the opposite. You may be surprised to know some other common words were once used completely differently than how we use them today [Link]
GraphJam » I Call Mine the 'Shameline'
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: facebook timeline , interwebs , Pie Chart , shame , social networking Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » The average consumer doesn't understand the difference between "sell by," "use by" and "best before," and that's causing tons of food waste [Obvious]
[link] [158 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » A UN Study Shows That Telecommuting Can Increase Stress Levels
It's hard to avoid blurring the lines between work and personal time. [Link]
Futility Closet » Ahead of Schedule
This is interesting: In 1973 science fiction author Jack Finney discovered this image in the pages of an 1876 New York newspaper, under the headline “Lewis’s New Flying Machine.” The first paragraph reads, “Mr. W.J. Lewis, of New York City, has invented a flying-machine, which scientific gentlemen pronounce a decided wonder, and which is the forerunner of an apparatus with … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Disabled Navy veteran beaten for trying to protect turtle from torture [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Seal Beach faces renewed flooding threat from looming storm, fills 600 sandbags, could get a little … crazy [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » PSA: When putting the bar code from a pack of ramen noodles to rip off the store they might notice sooner or later, especially when you buy a rack of lamb or an espresso maker [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Man arrested for stealing from Flame Broiler. By the looks of it, with his face [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Breach compromises personal information of 7,500 B.C. residents, say province archeologists [Fail]
[link] [31 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nearly 56,000 bridges called structurally deficient. Have a safe trip home, and would you mind looking at the road as you drive instead of reading this damn headline [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Feeling guilty that you sleep too much? Meet the woman who sleeps 20 hours a day [Strange]
[link] [64 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Cool Hacks for Amazon's Dash Button
Tweak the product-reordering button to send for pizza, donate to noble causes, or track your baby's poop. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mosquitoes step up bio-warfare attacks against mammals [Scary]
[link] [28 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man who's been seriously forked [Photoshop]
[link] [22 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Math Concepts Explained by Knitting and Crochet
Sure, you can make a rad scarf or hat with your knitting and crocheting skills. But you can also demonstrate complex mathematical concepts, like hyperbolic planes, cyclic groups, and numerical progression. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Google reports over 1 billion YouTube videos now have closed captions, generated by computer is grains and that allows a sense in its ability to understand the united daily work, selects of closing time tracker [Obvious]
[link] [89 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There's so much water in California now, the entire flood system is on the verge of collapse. Lex Luthor inconsolable [Followup]
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