‘There's a blog born every second, a sucker born every minute and 133 million children born every year. But how often is a toilet born?' The answer to that is likely to be: very frequently. But despite their large and ever increasing numbers a new website called toiletbirthdays.com aims to celebrate each and every beautiful ceramic cistern system individually.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
In a story reminiscent of Carl Spackler’s struggles in Caddyshack, two Canadian men caused hundreds of thousands in damages as they attempted to blow up some wily gophers. The gopher laughs heartily at your pathetic attempts to exterminate it. Image by Chuck Szmurlo The two men set out to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The face-off between Georgia and Tennessee over the Tennessee River and Nickajack Lake is growing more similar to the fashion in which the Persians and Spartans bantered in “300″ every day. Steele pays tribute to Egyptian god Ra. Millennia later the mayor of Chattanooga mocks Georgia [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 21, 2008
I don’t know how many of you knew this, but the City of Atlanta has been subject to what has politely been called an “extreme” drought recently. This has occasionally been comical, such as when the University of Georgia essentially asked 90,000 attendees of its homecoming football game [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 19, 2008
A new study on scientific productivity has arrived at the conclusion that beer is bad for science. Image by Tomasz Sienicki It seems obvious, drunks aren’t very common in labs or the library after all, but the report is one of the first to take a scientific look at [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 15, 2008
It may be an unfortunate stereotype, but very few people consider scientists to be doctors of the more funkified arts. Archaeologist Dr. Brian Stewart won the competition with a little help from Herbie Hancock. Image by Jesus Mena Quintana A new competition in Austria aimed to change all that [...]
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