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Where were you hundreds of Birthdays and Christmases ago tape scissors?

April 14th, 2012 at 8:45 pm » Comments (0)

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The obvious evolution.
It’s obvious why these brilliant scissors with a built-in tape dispenser aren’t available in every office supply store in the country. They want you to have to buy both products separately—increasing the store’s profits while you sit at home fumbling your way through another botched attempt at wrapping gifts…



How to Deal with Death Online the Right Way

April 13th, 2012 at 9:59 pm » Comments (0)

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What are the best ways to deal with a deceased love one online?
Your friends and family are going to die. Probably later, but maybe sooner. That much is certain. Another certainty is that, when it happens, we’ll all still be using some form of social media. Here’s how to grieve digitally, with dignity.
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Why younger generations in America are driving much less

April 11th, 2012 at 10:46 am » Comments (0)

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Young people are also making more use of transit, bikes, and foot power to get around.
“Unfortunately for car companies, today’s teens and twenty-somethings don’t seem all that interested in buying a set of wheels. They’re not even particularly keen on driving, ” Jordan Weissmann noted at TheAtlantic.com a couple weeks back.



CISPA is SOPA 2.0

April 10th, 2012 at 4:45 pm » Comments (0)

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CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year. EFF’s chilling analysis of the bill shows how it could be used to give copyright enforcers carte blanche to spy on Internet users [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

April 10th, 2012 at 10:43 am » Comments (0)

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Two young sweat shop workers on a smoke break,
huddled under an umbrella to talk rainbows and politics.

Quote of the Day: “I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” – – Robert Benchley



Why being accepted to Harvard is no longer an honor

April 7th, 2012 at 1:03 pm » Comments (0)

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Harvard University
Harvard just set a record for low undergraduate admission rate. Only 5.9 percent of applicants for the class of 2016 were accepted.



The insecticide now known as Splenda

April 4th, 2012 at 4:12 pm » Comments (0)

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Did you know that Splenda was born as an insecticide? It’s true!
Splenda is not natural; it is a chlorinated artificial sweetener. There have been no long-term human studies on the safety of Splenda; however, issues have been raised about Splenda in a new study from Duke University.
According to the study, Splenda “suppresses beneficial bacteria and [...]



World’s first stairlift for obese pets

April 3rd, 2012 at 2:59 pm » Comments (0)

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Now your dogs weight won’t impede his mobility. Is that a good thing?
With news that more and more pets are joining the growing ranks of the obese (spurred by too much processed food, sedentary culture and architecture) it’s only a matter of time before someone thought of designing a stairlift for these unfortunate animals, just [...]



10 Bizarre Sex World Records

April 3rd, 2012 at 2:13 pm » Comments (0)

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The worlds biggest mouth doesn’t hold a candle to some of these crazy sex world records.
From an 82-year-old prostitute to a 500 people orgy and the world’s gang bang record, meet some of the weirdest sex world records you may not see in the Guinness Book…



Top 10 Photos of the Week

April 3rd, 2012 at 12:41 pm » Comments (0)

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Musical chairs is much trickier this way.
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Quote of the Day – “My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?” – – Mitch Hedberg



Urine-soaked eggs a spring delicacy in China

April 2nd, 2012 at 1:35 pm » Comments (0)

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A urine-soaked egg.
At the end of the school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.  That is also the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves [...]



Canada kills the Penny

March 31st, 2012 at 9:17 pm » Comments (0)

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Will all coins go away now?
Finally, after years of talking, the Canadian government killed the penny in its recent budget. Finance Minister Flaherty was clearly thinking of decluttering and interior design, noting “Pennies take up too much space on our dressers at home.”
There is also a real green side to this; the weight of all [...]



Woman making fortune from made-to-measure penis warmers

March 31st, 2012 at 6:26 am » Comments (0)

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Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus
Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus has revealed she is struggling to cope with the huge demand for her latest product – her very own range of willy warmers. Knitting fan Radmila said ’she just can’t keep up’ after launching her bespoke men’s product – and has had to recruit a small army [...]



Screen rage is the new temper-tantrum

March 30th, 2012 at 9:33 pm » Comments (0)

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Don’t take away the iPad!
At five years-old, it’s no fun getting interrupted while you’re focused on something. As a parent, I compensate for that by employing a series of intricately planned measures to guide my son from whatever he happens to be doing towards whatever it is that I want him to do instead.
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Is learning to code more popular than learning a foreign language?

March 28th, 2012 at 7:20 am » Comments (0)

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The demand and popularity of coding keeps increasing.
There was a time when people used to go to night classes or buy DIY guides to learn foreign languages in their spare time. But theNew York Times is to have us believe that French and Spanish are out of the window, to be replaced by Python and [...]



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