Japanese Salarymen Try New Tactic to Avoid Divorce: Being Nice to Their Wives (1)
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Japanese salarymen, the overworked and hard-drinking corporate warriors, are facing a new danger as they near retirement: divorce. A change in Japanese law this year allows a wife who is filing for divorce to claim as much as half her husband’s company pension. When the new law went into effect in April, divorce filings across Japan spiked 6.1 percent. Many more split-ups are in the pipeline, marriage counselors predict. They say wives — hearts gone ...
Procrastination Flowchart (6)
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It’s Friday and you are online reading blogs instead of working. This chart may hit a little close to home! Only a small portion is pictured here; you can see the entire chart at Project Sidewalk. Link -via Geek Like Me
Shot in the Face (2)
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Photographer and Bluerailroad magazine editor Paul Zollo was riding his bicycle when he saw Kevin in the crowd and noticed him instantly. Here’s the story of how Kevin (literaly) lost his face: I asked him what happened."Shot," he said. "Shot in theface." He motioned a gunat close range being shotdirectly into his face. So tell me, how did it feel,after you shot yourself in theface - and you came to -and realized you were notdead? ...
6 More Hoaxes That Fooled the World (14)
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The Five Hoaxes That Fooled the World post from a couple of weeks ago was pretty popular and lots of people had interesting suggestions for a follow up, so I thought I would do just that. Here are six more for your reading pleasure. The Cardiff Giant, 1869. Like one of our hoaxes from last week, this one was pretty much conceived of just to prove someone else wrong. George Hill had an argument with ...
10 American Icons Not Owned by America Anymore (6)
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Diana Wolf of mental_floss asked "When you think of 7-Eleven, the Chrysler Building, and Budweiser, what country comes to mind? " If you answer the United States, of course - then you’re in for a big surprise. The icons this country holds dear are not owned by Americans. Case in point, Budweiser’s maker Anheuser-Busch: 1. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.You’ve likely seen the Anheuser-Busch commercials that were shown during the Olympics. You know, the ones that are oozing ...
Happy Toilet Paper Day! (4)
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Illustrations: American Greetings Hey whaddayaknow - today is Toilet Paper Day! So. Happy TP Day, I guess! If you want to send an e-card, here it is: Link - Thanks Pam!
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A Beauty Contest for Nuns (3)
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Hot or not? An Italian priest invites readers to decide: An Italian priest says he is organising the world’s first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September. “Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God,” he told Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper. Link via This+That
Rotating Grid Optical Illusion (1)
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This is pretty trippy: David OReilly found that a large grid rotating at a certain speed will appear to group itself into smaller grids, rotating independently. It appears the persistence of vision effect overrides our knowledge that this is a single grid and divides it up optically. This only seems to work on a uniform grid (I also had interesting results with a brick formation), but the effect is lost when using a checkered texture. ...
Honesty (1)
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(Video Link) Honesty is a series of short films taking place in a world where people say exactly what they think. Pretty funny stuff. The one above takes place at a funeral. Link to the whole series
Man Wanted to Remain Standing, Even in Death (3)
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Angel Pantoja Medina has an unusual last wish. The 24-year-old Puerto Rican man wanted to remain standing, even in death: A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake. Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room. His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim ...
Famously Ugly People in History (2)
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Ty.rannosaur.us blog has a pretty interesting post (see what I did there?) about 10 famously ugly people. This one to the left is Attila the Hun: Practically unstoppable, Attila almost wiped out Western civilization until Pope Leo I talked him out of sacking Rome. According to Hollywood he looked like Gerard Butler, better known as Leonidas from 300, since Butler played him in the 2001 television series. The reality is that he looked more like ...
National Geographic Map of the Day: The Marvelous Land of Oz (4)
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Illustration: James E. Haff and Dick Martin / International Wizard of Oz Club (1980) National Geographic Map of the Day has a really neat (and zoomable) fictional map of the Marvelous Land of Oz, illustrated by James E. Haff and Dick Martin for the International Wizard of Oz Club (apparently there is such a thing) based on L. Frank Baum’s books The Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz. And did you know ...
Man’s Last Wish: Turn His Ashes Into Fish Food (2)
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When 61-year-old angler Peter Hodge learned that he had a terminal disease, he made a last wish that his remains be turned into … fish food! The 61-year-old, from Puriton, near Bridgewater in Somerset said he wanted to swim with his favourite fish in the spot where he spent 40 happy years angling. After his death last month he was cremated in a wicker fishing basket coffin, and his ashes were mingled with 30lb of ...
Nigerian Man Has 86 Wives (3)
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Take it from Mohammed Bello Abubakar. The 84-year-old Nigerian man will tell you from experience that you shouldn’t have that many wives. How many? 86 to be exact! Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86 women. The former teacher and Muslim preacher, who lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children, says he is able to cope only with the help ...
Pen Spinning (4)
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(YouTube link) NYC Educator teaches English as a Second Language, and is impressed with the way some of his students can twirl a pen. I’ve never seen anyone do this, but then I don’t get out much. Link
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NatGeo Flashback Photos: Baboon Teaching a Kitty How to Sit Properly (Like a Baboon) and Mowin’ the Lawn at Stonehenge (3)
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Our pal Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic Traveler’s Intelligent Travel blog told us about Flashback, a gem of a monthly photograph archive from NatGeo (some published before in the magazine, some never before seen). I particularly like these two, of a baboon trying to teach a kitty how to sit properly (like a baboon, that is) and a man mowing the lawn at Stonehenge: Photography by Kurt Severin, National Geographic Image Collection SITTING KITTYA patient ...
Truly Atrosious Spelling (2)
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Since people don’t spell very well, shouldn’t we just give up and accept variant spelling? “Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I’ve got a better idea,” Ken Smith, a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University, wrote in the Times Higher Education Supplement. “University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell.” To kickstart his proposal, Smith ...
9/11 Conspiracy Theories (2)
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How many times has someone tried to convince you that the attacks on 9/11 were an inside job, a government plot, or caused by someone other than the hijackers? Besides the conspiracy theorists, there are those folks who believe anything a friend forwards to them by email. The problem is that you don’t have any facts at your fingertips to refute their arguments. A post at YesButNoButYes gives you the short course in responding to ...
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i love conspiracy theories but for some reason these make me angry. maybe it's because i went to school across the river--who knows. i just wish these mentals would give it a rest
Weird Clouds (2)
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Environmental Graffiti has a really neat post about 30 of the weirdest-looking clouds in the sky. There’s something fishy about this cloud to the left. The photo was taken by Gavin Tobin, a cloudspotter for the Cloud Appreciation Society, over the skies of The Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland. Check out the entire gallery: Link - Thanks Linda!
Flag Stamp with 14 Stripes (1)
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The US flag has 13 stripes, to represent the original 13 colonies. The United States Postal Service always has stamps that depict the flag, although the design changes occasionally. On April 18, a new set of stamps were released, featuring four paintings of flags at different times of the day. The set is called “Flags 24/7″. But wait! How many stripes does the fourth flag image have? In the magnified view of the stamp image, ...
