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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssn2kmNf0ME] This. Is. Crazy. I've never seen anything so scary: Someone in Brazil captured on video this fire tornado or technically known as "fire whirls." Or to be truly technical: "HolyeffingshitRUNNNNN!"
[Hat tip: Annie]
And clowns have been killing people since 1854.
From the White House Flickr description of the above photo:
President Barack Obama puts his toe on the scale as Trip Director Marvin Nicholson tries to weigh himself during a hold in the volleyball locker room at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, Aug. 9, 2010.
One thing (only thing?) the current POTUS and his predecessor have in common: a sense of humor.
There's a 62 mile long traffic jam in China on the National Expressway 110 (also referred to as the Beijing-Tibet expressway) that is now in its ninth day. All you people complaining about the LIRR should just shut it now. [Hat tip: Ro!]
T-shirt twins coordinate shirts for a rainy day in Hells Kitchen.
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This two-foot long baby alligator was discovered underneath a car in Astoria, Queens on Sunday afternoon. After it was captured I wonder if it said to the crowd "Later, alligator."
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApQG3280pE&feature=player_embedded] The apocalypse was spotted in Finland.
Hm the end.
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I've heard of sex on the beach...
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Single serve Tumblr highlighting the best of and most interesting articles on Wikipedia. There's also Wikipedia's own list of unusual articles on their site.
YMMV.
A long list of Wikipedia pages on creepy, bizarre, and weird things.
Humorous infographic of some of "Wikipedia's lamest edit wars."
Tiger The "most powerful living cat"? 5,303 editsArachnophobia Appropriate to include a huge picture of a tarantual on a page about fear of spiders? 640 edits
U2 Are Bono's harmonica skills relevant in an encyclopedia entry? 10,367 edits
Ann Coulter Was the right wing US commentator born in 1961 or 1963? 10,790 edits
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During lunch I discovered the secret location where all of my MTA complaints go unanswered and unaddressed.
A Sony print ad from a 1973 National Geographic.
The child silently cursed his great-grandfather. Old bastard. I wanted an iPod.
Relatedly, my father got me the first ever iPod for a Christmas gift, but unfortunately he had to return it because my mac didn't have a USB port.
The Grey Lady looks into whether breast movement impacts running form is a question of serious scientific inquiry.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth in England and other schools recently attached reflective markers to the breasts of a group of female runners and had the women jog along a track while wearing various types of bras or forgoing breast support. The researchers charted the trajectories of the women’s breasts, using infrared cameras.
The researchers conclude: Yes, they have an impact and "[instead] of merely bouncing up and down, it turns out that breasts arc through a complicated figure-8 pattern when a woman runs or walks."
My head just reflexively moved in a figure-8 pattern.
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The job search equivalent of "it's not you, it's me."
"While your credentials are impressive, they do not match our current needs."
I've enabled on my blog Twitter's new "Tweet" button that appears on the bottom of each of my entries. If you see or read something that you find worthy of sharing with your followers, do me a favor and "tweet" it?
It'd be thug and gangsta of you if you did.
A little hand drawn map (which I often do before going to a neighborhood that I easily get lost in) that I submitted on a whim for Kris Harzinski's book project a couple years ago was accepted. Well, I received a copy of the book in the mail the other week and at the author's request, I'll be speaking at a PR event for the book at the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (the one with the lions) on September 15. Come say hi!
