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Macs don't get viruses! OK, it has to happen sooner or later, and when it does, it will be worse than you ever imagined. -via Viral Video Chart
Monks in Thailand's Sisaket province collected a million beer bottles and built an entire temple! The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is constructed of a combination of green Heineken bottles and the brown bottles of a local beer. See more pictures at Treehugger. Link -via Unique Daily
Check out this vintage ad for a children's laxative. This is wrong on so many levels. Link -Thanks, contrariwise!
They like to do things big in Texas. On Sunday, the world's biggest beach ball was dropped on Elm Street in Dallas. The ball was produced by Carnival Cruise Lines, and was accepted into the Guinness Book of World Records. Exact dimensions of the ball were not included in the article, but it was required to be more than ten meters in diameter to break the record. Link (with video) -Thanks, Brian!
Um, I think you kids should just skip this house when you're out trick-or-treating. Link -Thanks, David Mertl!
A man in Japan was arrested on suspicion of arson after the hotel he was scheduled to get married in was set on fire. No one was injured in the early morning fire at a resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture.
He should have just said "No." Link
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Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
"I thought if I set a fire I wouldn't have to go through with the wedding," the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.
He should have just said "No." Link
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An allegory for the life of an architect, set to the dreamy tone of Eastern music.
Created as a gift for my brother's birthday (he is an architect by profession), and derived from two verses of his poetry:
(loosely tanslated:)
"I awoke with fog behind my window
As if a cloud of Paradise.
The people fled, their dwellings and the crane
All vanished with the Earth.
The fog wreathed everything around
Devouring all the world contained
And all that inspired and that soothed
Remained encloistered in my room."
Music credit goes to Shahram Nazeri, the Pavarotti of Persia.
-Thanks, Kirill!
How much do you know about the Super Nintendo Entertainment System? That's the question today in the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. I scored 38%, even with the help of my video game-playing daughters, since none of us have ever owned a SNES. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19595
An article in Popular Science from 1953 urges citizens to take pictures of flying saucers to help the Air Force study them! Oh, but they don't want just any old photographs. Included are instructions for rigging your camera with a diffraction
Of course, if the Air Force discovers that your negative indicates the existence of an element not found on this planet, you and your camera will go down in history.
Apparently, that hasn't yet happened. http://www.thekeyhoereport.com/uncategorized/retro-ufology-from-1953/ -Thanks, David Duncan!
Yes, you read correctly. Robocop and Unicorn are united in a meme that is sweeping the internet (and possibly ridding it of wrong doers at the same time?). Yet what is the point, if indeed there is one? Take a look at this web-based phenomenon and make up your own mind.
Link -Thanks, RJ Evans!
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This game is supposed to challenge your concentration and reaction time. I had fun playing it, but had a hard time taking a picture of it, because it kept running away from me! Link -via Digg
A dog named Leo stayed behind in a burning home in Melbourne, Australia, to guard a box of kittens! Four family members and one dog escaped the fire.
Firefighters plan to nominate Leo for an honor to acknowledge his bravery. Link -Thanks, Larfin Jackarse!
"But Leo was still inside standing over the kittens, and we were scared he would get burned," she said. "We couldn't find Sabrina (mother of the kittens) and we thought they would all die."
The children sobbed with relief when firefighters rescued and revived 11-month-old Leo.
"Then we were told there was a box of kittens still in there, and firefighters returned to grab them too," Cdr Brown said.
He said Leo licked the kittens with joy when he saw them. "It was a wonderful sight," he said.
The kittens were unharmed because a cover on their box stopped them suffering smoke inhalation.
Firefighters plan to nominate Leo for an honor to acknowledge his bravery. Link -Thanks, Larfin Jackarse!
Last year, the project Thrill the World brought 1722 people together around the world for a simultaneous Thriller dance. The event was repeated Saturday, with 3960 zombie dancers participating! The largest group was in Austin, Texas, where 881 dancers did the Thriller dance together on the patio at the Long Center. Thrill the World Austin has video and links to many pictures of the event. Link -Thanks, xadrian!
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On October 26th, 2008, zombies clumped together to break the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Attended Zombie Walk". It was one of the many events held at the weekend long Zombie Fest, at the Monroeville Mall. This is the same mall where the original Dawn Of The Dead was filmed. I sat at a table selling copies of my book of zombie haiku, but sneaked away during the zombie walk to take most of these pictures.
Link -Thanks, Ryan Mecum!
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