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Why Jerry Why
The Prestige – After darkening up the Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan goes back to the genre he does best, the “WTF is going on?” movie. And this one’s almost as good as “Memento”. I think I saw the twist coming sooner than I was supposed to, but it was still fun watching the [...]

Weird Green Mobile Technology Touted At Science Museum London – 24 Hour Museum – official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
There are around 50 million mobiles in the UK – a figure that is fast catching up to the current UK population at just under 60.5 million. But with global usage of mobile [...]

Boing Boing: Weird photographic effect — can you explain it?
I was travelling in a Bombardier turboprop plane recently, looked out my window and saw the propeller. Thought it would make a nice picture, so I took out my cameraphone.

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Flickr: The Visual HTML Jokes Pool

via haha.nu via Boing Boing
See Also… Photos from right angle | haha.nu – a lifestyle blogzine and Korean illusions | haha.nu – a lifestyle blogzine

RIT – myRIT portal
RIT Polls
Do you think the decision to award custody of Anna Nicole Smith’s body to her daughter’s legal guardian was the right one?
Yes
No
more importantly, there should be an option for “this is the dumbest poll ever”

my daily prayer

JS Online: Man mistakes porn DVD as woman’s cries for help
Instincts took over, James Van Iveren says, when he rushed out his door to the sound of a woman being raped in an apartment above.

For his effort, Van Iveren was charged with criminal trespass while using a dangerous weapon, criminal damage to property while using [...]

Totenkopf Toaster SKULL-Toast
Totenkopf Toaster SKULL-Toast

Everyone needs skulls on their toast!
via Boing Boing

UnNews:UN announces new radiation symbol – Uncyclopedia

The UN expects that the new symbol will limit cases of radiation poisoning down to the utterly retarded.

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Gaim
my story of improving gaim…
FINALLY!
2.0.0 beta5 broke my ctrl+number shortcuts for smilies, but they work again in gaim beta6, so I have upgraded all my computers. While I was using beta 3.1 (beta5 sucks, but ever after downgrading the shortcuts stayed broke). My smilie usage was [...]

TBO.com – Entertainment News From The Associated Press
A man who caught a 4-foot shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach said on Friday he only tried the feat because he was drunk on vodka.
well I guess I’m glad we don’t have sharks around here?

Paraglider sucked into killer storm – Asia-Pacific – MSNBC.com
She encountered hailstones the size of oranges, and the temperature plummeted to minus 58 Fahrenheit.
“There’s no oxygen. She could have suffered brain damage. But she came to again at a height of 6,900 meters with ice all over her body and slowly descended herself,” said Godfrey Wenness, [...]

Monterey County Herald | 02/15/2007 | Recovered sculpture accidentally thrown out
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, which recovered Triangle Park’s stolen ”origami crane” sculpture, mistakenly tossed it in the trash.
I tried to find a picture, but no luck.

Heath said, we said: Good As You
Get ready for another year or two of euphemism-laden media barrages from our leftist press here in Maine. Al Gore finally helped the “gays” here with the internet that he invented. They put out a ten minute youtube video last week announcing their plans to …. drum roll please [...]

Enable Firefox spell checking in Wordpress 2.1 » Nothing to see here
Wordpress 2.1, but I noticed several complaints over on the Wordpress support forums about the fact that the Firefox inline spell checking seems to not be working with the new editor

do you wordpress? do you firefox? if you answered yes to both questions you [...]