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How fast the US got fat.
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What people download in North Korea.
Monitoring tools, How I Met Your Mother and OS X Mountain Lion (along with porn and Life of Pi, follow the source link for more information).
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Nice selection of diverse photos from reader suggestions on In Focus.
Here is a dog rescue.
A Real Madrid fan's magical adventure
Abel Rodríguez waxes floors for a living in Los Angeles and takes two weeks of vacation a year to work gratis for Real Madrid when the European football club trains in Los Angeles every summer. He had always dreamed of seeing Real Madrid playing their Spanish rivals Barcelona in Madrid, so his family persuaded him to go. He went. With no hotel or ticket to the game, he sat outside the club’s training complex for hours until manager José Mourinho spotted him as he was leaving…“Stop! It’s the guy from Los Angeles.”
Read the full story here.
Daft Punk - Get Lucky.
This is probably an unfinished production of the song or an outtake but it must close to the real thing.
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World top 10 airports. The list goes on, follow the source link.
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Baidu Maps might beat Street View in terms of magic.
I love that Baidu Maps are just Sim City 2000.
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Batman as ancient Greek art. More on the source link.
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Extreme close-up photos of eyes.
Scotty
Wirelessly transfers iPad, iPhone and iPod touch photos and videos to your Mac or to another iOS device.
Nifty little app.
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Performance enhancing drugs for writers.
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Cat decision-making tree.
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The Lord of the Rings book covers designed by J.R.R Tolkien himself.
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“Name that space rock”, a handy visualisation of the most common astral objects.
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Famous typewriters.
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Your chance of dying various deaths, nifty infographic by The Economist.
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Story Rush, a kindergarten teacher from Greenwood, Alaska, fires an M1919 Browning .30 caliber machine gun on the first night of the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show
Amazing photo for the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards.
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When I was younger, I promised myself never to reblog an image with big, bold, inspirational text laid on it. Today I break my promise because this is something that needs to be known about memory.
Read more about it.