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11/08/07 // Link:
Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century Just when you think the internet might have actually overlooked a thing or two, you stumble across something like this: Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century. And don’t forget the subhead: A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip …continue reading »
09/20/07 // Link:
Train Runs Through Bangkok Market Just one of the many reason why Asia is so damn great. Try to imagine what would happen if you attempted this in the west.continue reading »
09/08/07 // Link:
Bill Murray Drives Golf Cart Through Stockholm, Refuses To Take Breath Test If almost anyone else did this I would probably think they were a crass America, but for some reason Bill Murray doing it just seems hilarious. Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Pentagon’s Psychic Vision Revisited Great Interview with the former head of the Pentagon’s “Remote Viewing” project on Wired’s Danger Room blog. From Sharon Weinberger’s intro: “John Alexander, a former Green Beret, earned a reputation in the 1990s as a vocal advocate of nonlethal weapons …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:
Historic Bottle Website Yes it really is a website dedicated to information on historical glass bottle found in the United States. Everything you ever needed to date that weird bottle you dug up in the yard last weekend and more. It began under …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
The Itinerant Poetry Librarian I can’t remember how I ran across this site, but it’s kind of cool. A woman who travels around promoting “lost and forgotten” poetry. No idea what is classified as lost and forgotten or whether it’s worth promoting, I just …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
Baby-Crying Contest News of the wacky. Babies, held by amateur sumo wrestlers, cry loudly during a baby-crying contest in Tokyo April 28, 2007. Eighty-four babies born in 2006 took part in the event, which is held to pray for the babies’ health …continue reading »
04/30/07 // Link:
Myth America Refuting some popular America history myths over at Neatorama. For instance, the Native American tribe that “sold” Manhattan Island for a few clams didn’t actually “own” it, in fact, they didn’t even live there — who’s the sucker now?continue reading »
04/12/07 // Link:
Dreamed up phone number leads man to a bride A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. How’s that for random?continue reading »
02/22/07 // Link:
Designer Creates Floating Mag-Lev Bed “A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million). Jan Jaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed — a sleek …continue reading »
02/01/07 // Link:
Kiruna: The Town That Moved This January, Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna, 145 kilometres into the Artic Circle has decided to move itself 4km in order to save itself from sinking into cracks created by the worlds largest iron ore mine. Kiruna grew thanks to …continue reading »
02/01/07 // Link:
Russian Loses Wife In Poker Game Could be my favorite headline ever. From the Register: A Murmansk gambler lost his wife in a poker game when he ran out of cash and laid his other half on the table, Ananova reports. Unfortunately for Andrei Karpov, when …continue reading »
01/30/07 // Link:
Robot parking garage to open in New York New York — Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city’s first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the …continue reading »
01/24/07 // Link:
Tiny London Apartment for $334,000 A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 (currently about 334,254 USD) in London’s upmarket Chelsea. The former janitor’s storeroom measures 11ft by 7ft and has a cupboard place for a shower and …continue reading »
01/24/07 // Link:
Skid Mark Brief Safe The perfect travel safe - The “Brief Safe” is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you’re traveling. Items can be hidden …continue reading »

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