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This video shows why they say “you’re dead meat!” in the same breath  “hollow-point bullet” is mentioned.

Using every man’s best friend — the couch! — people say this “six packs in six minutes” video works like magic.

Thousands of activists dressed in “professional attire” are going to March on Washington on Sept. 15 to push for the end of war.
We do not think individuals’ choices of self-expression will undermine the protest’s goals. But we believe that a professional appearance will be more effective in projecting seriousness and determination to the administration, and [...]

With the question helpfully answered by veteran climber Dave Hahn, we can now sleep peacefully knowing that when we do find ourselves in freezing, high-altitude places, taking a dump is “freedom.”
You will remember that tidy elimination is not worth dying for and so you won’t hop urgently from your tent onto a steep and snowy [...]

In the process, called resomation, the body is encased in a silk coffin and submerged in water mixed with potassium hydroxide. It is then heated to 302 degrees Fahrenheit, which rapidly turns it into a white dust, The Mail on Sunday reported.
The process is more eco-friendly than cremation, during which a body is heated to [...]

Bleak New York in July 1977, after a lightning strike blacked out the entire city. Wired’s set of photos show the nut-crushing fun New Yorkers had in the dark.

Dear Letter Sender, this proves nobody cares about you.

Hippo to gamekeeper: “You can’t stop our luuuv!”

What you see in this video is George Bush wiping off the poop from an errant bird during a press con at the Rose Garden on May 24. What you don’t see is how he later licked the poop off that finger backstage, like what all distinctive men of leadership must sometimes do.

Eva Cavalli, wife of top fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, accidentally flashed her bum while getting on-board their private cruiser in Cannes. We’re not sure if it’s just us, but doesn’t her ass look like that of a 15-year-old’s?

Naomi Campbell, Eva Cavalli, in happier, non-wardrobe-malfunctioning times.

The four 300-ft nuclear cooling towers at the Chapelcross nuclear power station in the south of Scotland took merely 10 seconds to demolish on Sunday. And never to be upstaged in fun things like this, the British Nuclear Group even installed a webcam for the viewing pleasure of Internet users that captured the last agonizing [...]

This report is most heartbreakingly summed up in the line: “No one missed him. No missing person report was ever filed.”
The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.
The police said in a statement the man was 59 [...]

The vending machines issued by Japan’s Apex Corp. will begin giving free coffee and soft drinks in June — but only after users are made to watch a 30-second commercial.
They’re calling this new revenue-earning scheme “Medicafe,” and it sounds good already except it’s going to be available only in Japan.
Customers can select a drink on [...]

Nine-year-old Jesse Courtney was shocked — shocked! — when his doctor told him a pair of nice, earwax-slurping spiders had been making a home out of his left ear.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader’s left ear canal.
His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a [...]

We don’t know what to do with this overly-cute Asian two-year-old girl as she just breaks our heart. Maybe somebody should teach her how to say “I want my money, bitch!” to make full use of that talent.
via TV IN JAPAN

Female bartenders in a bar in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in China are made to dress up, pout and flirt like only real nurses can, while they serve you liquor through these colorful syringes and test tubes.

The Antique Wine Company is putting up for sale a heady collection of vintage wines spanning four centuries — the oldest wine dates back to 1787, before the French Revolution.

Even though the provenance of the collection is impeccable, (a number of bottles were stored in the Bordeaux cellars of one of the Rothschild family), The [...]