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Nurse Sleeps With Men Who Just Lost Their Wives to Cancer

March 10, 2010

That’s the UK. Here they just give you the bill. If that doesn’t sell healthcare reform, nothing will. Read more @ The Sun »

Want a Bird Poop Facial?

March 9, 2010

Too expensive at $115 for the basic facial. It would have been a no-brainer at $99.95! Read more @ ScienceBlogs »

Granite for Curling Stones Running Out

March 9, 2010

Curling — my absolute last hope of becoming an actual Olympian assuming I can find a school hereabouts that can teach me how to play it — may go the way of the dodo. Seems that the curling stones can only be made from one type of granite, and we have yet to figure out [...]

Jurassic Cattle Park

March 9, 2010

More proof that we humans are just really fixated on breeding: Scientists attempt to breed aurochs — huge European wild cattle that died off in 1627 — back into existence. Read more @ Time »

Weedkiller Castrates – Even Changes the Sex of – Male Frogs

March 9, 2010

Scroll down to the second picture. So tell me: Do those two male frogs look like they’re having fun or what? Read more @ CNN »

Very Last Speaker of Ancient Dialect Dies

March 8, 2010

The dialect’s now officially extinct and lost to the ages. She was 85-years-old. Didn’t they effing know she was bound to go soon? Read more @ Reuters »

$41,300 Paid for Vintage Nintendo NES Game on eBay

March 8, 2010

If you thought $13,105 for a Nintendo system was weird, check out what this guy got for his game… and he didn’t even get to play it! Read more @ Plugged In »

Pole Dancing in the Olympics

March 8, 2010

Seriously if curling is a “sport,” why not this? Read more @ Newser »

German Naked Sled Race a “Logistical Nightmare”

March 7, 2010

I know they go to extremes to maximize aerodynamics, but don’t the goosebumps create drag? Read more @ The Local »

7′3″ Great Dane is the World’s Tallest Dog

March 7, 2010

I’m telling you, if they can breed seeing eye dogs this size, the blind can just ride everywhere. Read More & See Pics @ Daily Mail »