Sporcle.com and other time-wasting online quizzes

Introducing my new favorite way to procrastinate on the Internet!
http://www.sporcle.com/ is addicting and…educational? Yes. Unlike my old favorite- The Impossible Quiz – which was maddeningly pointless, Sporcle features a plethora of useful/interesting quizzes on…well…everything. (As an aside, there is a newer Impossible Quiz that I’ve never tried. It’s cleverly named The Impossible Quiz 2. I [...]

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Warning- Zombies Ahead!

“A sign on Interstate 255 Tuesday warned motorists that the undead were ahead, causing double takes during the morning rush.” -Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post Dispatch
Oh yes, this story is worth reading. Picture yourself kinda groggy, heading down the interstate to work on a Tuesday morning. You see one of those annoying electronic highway signs, [...]

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Bananas beget baby boys???

Do bananas beget baby boys? I doubt it…but apparently it’s newsworthy enough to merit a story on NPR.
A British study suggests that what a woman eats while she’s pregnant might affect the gender of the baby. The study, You are what your mother eats, claims it found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, [...]

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Cuddling gone wrong, brain worms, and Guns N Dr. Pepper

It’s always good to stay up to date on the goings-on of the world, and it’s so much more interesting when the goings-on are a bit on the quirky side. So here’s my random news roundup for the night, complete with my highly qualified, frequently sought-after personal commentary.
In our first story, a 20 year old [...]

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Watch out for French train toilets

“The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.” -BBC story lead
Another excellent random news story from BBC. I beseech you, read this!
How’s this for a bad day? You’re on a train in France when nature [...]

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Mass Pandemonium in Melbourne

“It was disgusting, these young lads were urinating in my fish pond, and kicking over my gnomes. I have never seen anything like it, I have lived here for 28 years, and my gnomes have never been attacked like this before.” -Sheila Outrigger, Melbourne
“They beheaded five of my gnomes and knocked over my brand-new bird [...]

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Squirrel Melts?

WARNING: Vegetarians, PETA members, squirrel lovers, and people with weak stomachs probably should NOT watch this video. Not very graphic by today’s standards, but probably emotionally disturbing to some.

Ah, squirrel melts! “He’s kinda cute. Put his little tender butt in there.” We must surely acknowledge that the lady and the music [...]

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Ringo says quit being Starr-struck

As an avid Beatles fan, I couldn’t let this one slip by without mention.
Apparently, Ringo Starr is done with fan mail. No more, he says. Please, leave the poor sap alone. A Yahoo news article doesn’t offer much of an explanation.
I gotta say, I can’t quite decide how to react. On [...]

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