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Panda bites scavenger in Beijing Zoo — Shanghai Daily | ???? — English Window to China News
“He shouted ‘I’m not afraid of a panda, I know karate,’” Wang said. “And then he sat on the cement platform inside the railings and jumped into the habitat.”
You can guess what happened next.  Apparently the panda’s  karate is [...]

MAKE: Blog: Non-lethal mousetraps show your fondness for rodents
Using everyday household objects like a clear drinking glass, metal springs, paper clips, and a metal nut, this “friendlier” mousetrap won’t kill off your rodent infestation, but instead will just provide an easy way for you to transport them outside.
cool idea, nice photos and everything.  Sucky website,  [...]

Boozy Britons sink 37 bottles of whisky a year | the Daily Mail
Adults in the UK now drink the equivalent of 11.4 litres of pure alcohol every year.
This works out at 189 bottles of wine (nine per cent proof), 37 bottles of whisky (40 per cent proof) or 1,137 pints of beer (3.5 [...]

Grand Jury: No Criminal Charges in Rochester Gay Bashing — Towleroad for modern gay men,
A grand jury has decided to file no criminal charges in a gay bashing incident in June in Rochester, New York, in which two groups of people were assaulted in attacks that took place separately. A total of eight people were [...]

Dark Roasted Blend: Ice Storms!

I love the way blades of grass look when they are each individually covered in ice.  I hate ice storms because of driving, but I love them at the same time. Lots of great pics at the site.

YouTube - “Wedding flowers” from Man Stroke Woman
nooo, let me explain, … these are wedding flowers, like yaaay
awesome video, sums it up pretty much exactly

Chris’s Crypt, The Bleeding Portrait
To make the blood flow off the painting I gave several coats of varnish and a final coat of Rain-X.
Rain-X is awesome stuff, everyone should put it on their car.  And it apparently also helps the fake blood not stick to bleeding portraits.  I have always been infatuated with home made [...]

Miscellany: Get the Weather on your HP 4200
The program uses the perl Geo::METAR module to parse METAR weather information from NOAA. You’ll need to install the module if you don’t already have it (and you probably don’t). Install it using ActiveState’s PPM for Windows and the CPAN program (or OS package manager) for everything else. [...]

Allstate - Auto Insurance Quote, Anonymous Online Car Insurance Ballpark Estimate
I now have Allstate insurance because Progressive sucks. My Progressive insurance was about to end, and they were horrible customer service and communication wise during the 6 months I had them, so I wasn’t going to renew anyway. It turned out that they [...]

Waterhobo
The little rabbits were never really the problem, it was the adults, there is nothing like being on your deck and some adult rabbit cutting between your house and the neighbor’s and they just look at you like “What is there something wrong?” Never asking if it was ok, just doing it.
Autonomous Water Cannon.  That [...]

xkcd - The Difference
I like a lot of the xkcd comics, I mean, come on, they are hilarious.
Paths (I do too)
WWED (how can you not lol)

WKRN News Extra!
There is nothing on the face of the adoption statutes which precludes the joint adoption of a child by a same sex couple. Under Tennessee law, any person over the age of 18 years old, who has physical custody of a child or can establish a right to custody, may file an adoption [...]

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Kevin and I were talking about this, I kid you not, several weeks ago. I would also find naming an invention or product with SQL injections almost as funny, and far less scaring on the young mind.

Vodka-drip feed saves tourist | NEWS.com.au
“The hospital’s administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka.”
Alcohol stops the body from processing the anti-freeze.  Thats a great new excuse.  “Sorry, I have to be drunk or I will get sick from the anti-freeze I accidentally drank” If it wasn’t [...]

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Kwik-Fit sued over staff radios
The PRS claimed that Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers.
Apparently listening to the radio qualifies as a “performance” [...]