Monday, May 31, 2010

Parents Organize Kid Fights to Settle Playground Scores






Mother Nature as an Abstract Artist

British man becomes the first to swim under Mt Everest

Rare stamp sold for world record price

Son, father and grandfather all born on same day

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all

Sneaky Hate Spiral

The World's Most Colorful Currencies, Part 2

The Most Bizarre Plants on Earth

Fashion-concious men get a lift as the man-heel makes its entrance

DIY hot tub

Children, 4, 'to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library'

Meanwhile, in Sweden...

Old Lady Fail

Behind the Logo - a set on Flickr. Greenpeace invite redesigns of the BP logo.

Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters

Japan Wants to Power 300,000 Homes With Wireless Energy From Space

Parents Organize Kid Fights to Settle Playground Scores

Personal Bankruptcy in America(infographic)

Good Samaritan rushes off into night after saving Jessica Oshita from oncoming L train

Some Odd Coincidences

Dennis Hopper: a life in pictures






Actor Dennis Hopper dies aged 74 after cancer battle and Dennis Hopper: a life in pictures

Iowa court: Exhume body so head can be frozen (via)

12 sci-fi movie and TV deaths that made us go "WTF?"

Virtual life after death

20 Death Masks Of Famous People

Top Ten Movies about Death

Gary Coleman DEAD: 'Diff'rent Strokes' Actor Dies In Utah, Wife Shannon Price At His Side

Teenagers' deaths 'not caused by mephedrone'

Stephen Perry | MetaFilter

Death In Childbirth: Rising In U.S., Falling Abroad

Woman died after doctors failed to spot toilet brush in her buttocks

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Disturbing Images of Genetic Mutations in Animals






Under Water Bull-Dog!

20 Frighteningly Ugly Dogs

22 Cats Taking Baths

Sioux City cat found alive with nail in its head

Distraught owner of missing cat pays team of psychics £1,000 to find her moggy

Ellie the blind spaniel gets a very special guide dog

Hammerhead Shark Study Shows Cascade of Evolution Affected Size, Head Shape

Red fish pulls woman off Bob Sikes pier

Rare 'alligator snapping turtle' caught in Chinese lake

Malaysia wildlife park under fire over Tiger video

Garden birds prefer non-organic food to organic, study finds

Horses gave first aid to pal

CBS planning 'Ministry of Animals' special

China announces plans to train captive giant pandas for life in the wild

Meerkats, chimps and pandas: the cute and the furry attract scientists' attention and conservation funding

New Montauk Monster sighting? Bizarre creature washes up in small Ontario town

After half-century absence, Black Rhinos fly home to Serengeti

Lock up your tortoises – and watch them with CCTV

Your morning adorable: Triplet lion cubs show off for the public at Hungarian wildlife park

Blue tits make home in ashtray

Pecking order: Jackal is nipped on the nose after trying to snatch hungry vulture's scrap of meat

Living with Swallows

Worrying Trade In Meerkats As Pets, Sold For Up To £1,500

Online fans help Vermont's 'Pete the Moose' cheat death

Guido Sterkendries: photographer observes wildlife from the canopy of rainforests in Panama and Brazil

Animal pictures of the week: 21 May 2010

Heron catches rabbit: Dramatic photos

Lions get new home in Yorkshire

100 Animals in One Small Apartment

Carriage driver injured as shire horse gallops through York streets

Farmers vs. Lions: A Battle to the Death in Kenya

10 Amazingly Smart & Productive Animals Humans Can Learn From

Crows caught taking a crafty cigarette break on holiday island

Top 10 new species discovered in 2009 [Pics]

Photos of a…Baby Hippo, Kangaroo, Panda, Bear, Otter, Hedgehog and Aardvark

You Will Never See A More Disgusting Goring Than This!

Human-Like: 5 Animal Behaviors That Parallel People

Disturbing Images of Genetic Mutations in Animals (via)

Birds' Housing Boost In Italian Town

Migrating Thousands of Miles With Nary a Stop

Elephant picture explains mystery of 'leaking jacuzzi'

In pictures: A frog with a Pinocchio-like nose is among the new species discovered in Indonesia

Lions, tigers and bears: British photographer Jonathan Griffiths' close encounters of the furry kind

Mystery rodent scurries by as Obama lauds Wall Street vote

Rescuers battle 17million angry bees after flatbed trailer crashes in fatal U.S. accident

Seven memorable on-screen insects