O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They […]
The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th century’s most disturbing object The lampshade’s current proprietor […] won’t keep it in his home and says that, even now that it’s here, safely in storage, he feels more at ease when he knows the shade is shut away in its white cardboard box. […]
Male pattern baldness and the mysteries of human sexuality are no puzzles for the president of Bolivia, who has declared they are caused by eating chicken.
Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues “It is like the tobacco industry asking for compensation for lost revenues as a part of a settlement to address the health risks of smoking,” said Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The worst of this racket is that […]
Pear-shaped business plan reaps fruit of success | Small Business | Reuters
since i’ve been blogging, i’m not going to dignify the source by linking to it. Jillian Harris, Vancouver’s most famous singleton, says she wants an honest man — one who will tell her if she’s got a booger in her nose. She’s hoping to find him on reality television. … i mean, really.
Robert Augustus Chesebrough, January 9, 1837 – September 8, 1938) was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, trade-named Vaseline. […] Chesebrough lived to be 101 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day.
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. Contamination is your enemy. Everything must be clean.
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