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Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on prom night, they’re also more likely to grow up to be criminals, say two economists who tracked the life course of young people from high school through early adulthood
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Draw a sketch, submit it, and have some random person’s sketch sent back to you. It’s pretty fun! And because the submitted sketches are moderated you don’t get sketches of penises, boobs, or ‘FaCKs YOUz LoOS3R’s like you would expect from your fellow ‘humans’ on the internet.
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120 years of electronic music machines.
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Derek Glover, a 72 year old man who lost his hearing 15 years ago, was 7,000 feet up on a ski lift in the Italian Dolomites when he heard a loud pop and his hearing returned.
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In an attempt to make amends with all the arachnophobes who freaked out over last weeks World’s Largest Spider post, I’m giving you a link to the invaluable Spider Catcher. Although being an arachnophobe myself, I would prefer it if the handle was about 10 feet longer, and instead of ‘soft bristles’ at the end there was a shotgun that fired medical textbooks soaked in Raid�.
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A pretty image collection featuring things being smashed, taken using high-speed photography. Me like to smash things good. Me like pretty pictures.
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Gotta love open standards. Here’s a clock where the numbers you see for the clock are randomly pulled from images on Flickr, using Flash no less. Seriously, I’m old enough to remember when Flash was sorta stupid, now its all growed up!
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The Prejudice Map was created by doing Google searches on what citizens of various countries are known for. For example, searching for “germans are known for *”, and compiling the most common results.
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This is all sorts of useful.
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I don’t understand Spanish so unfortunately I can’t tell you how these voodoo fishermen make the fish jump right into their boat. But an educated guess says it is either mental powers or the fact that they have the Top Gun anthem playing in the background.
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…and just about everything else for that matter. I would have expected it to cost more. And be shinier.
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Microsoft catches a lot of flak for the Blue Screen of Death, but as frequently noted throughout the BSoD documentation, most BSoDs are due to faulty third-party hardware drivers. Still, why not make the best of it and get a t-shirt or screensaver?
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First person to buy me one of these gets a free t-shirt.
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Go to futureme.org and write yourself an email to be delivered to you up to 30 years in the future. I already tried it and asked myself how LOST will end, or more specifically what happens if they don’t press the button and will Jack and Kate ever do it, but so far I have not heard back.
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