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November 16, 2014
March 26, 2014
This month only: Free pizza with your vasectomy!
Supposedly the number of vasectomies is higher in March, because guys take advantage of the need to spend a few days of sitting around to watch basketball tournaments.
March 20, 2014
December 05, 2013
For 20 Years the Nuclear Launch Code at US Minuteman Silos Was 00000000
"during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launch codes at every silo in the US to 8 zeroes."
via gizmodo.com
November 08, 2013
"For The Hand Impregnation Of Shoes"
"I’m pretty sure that I’d rather just wear flip flops than have to impregnate my shoes by hand. It’s a personal choice. No judgement."
via thebloggess.com
October 23, 2013
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April 11, 2013
February 27, 2013
Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers (SFW)
Using the Internet Adult Film Database, "the premier resource for information about the American porn community on the web (who knew?)," Jon Millward extracted lots of interesting information about those who work in porn movies: Most common names: Nikki & David; average bra size: 34B. The infographic above is a color wheel of actresses races. Read the story at JonMillward.com.
February 19, 2013
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
"In Alaska’s North Slope, the population of bowhead whales seems to be recovering. But that’s really not the coolest part of this Alaska Dispatch story. Instead, it’s this, noticed by Geoffry Gagnon"
"Bowheads seem to be recovering from the harvest of Yankee commercial whaling from 1848 to 1915, which wiped out all but 1,000 or so animals. Because the creatures can live longer than 200 years — a fact [Craig] George discovered when he found an old stone harpoon point in a whale — some of the bowheads alive today may have themselves dodged the barbed steel points of the Yankee whalers."
Read the rest at blogs.smithsonianmag.com
December 17, 2012
Apple Maps
Note "that the Apple Maps icon actually suggests that you drive right off an overpass"
via imgur.com
October 26, 2012
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July 15, 2012
Forbes: Obama is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower
"Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower."
via www.forbes.com
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