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While most of us spend our free time watching tv or lounging around on the couch, Japanese artist Akinobu Izumi creates these teeny adorable masterpieces in a bottle smaller than your thumb. views: 801 | category: ArtDead Serious News
November 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment Ethel Waters, an 86 year old great-grandmother from Monroe, Louisiana, was pepper-sprayed by police upon exiting the public restroom at her local Wal-Mart store. Her crime?
We are pleased to announce that Damn Interesting contributor Ben Taylor has just published a shiny new book that is sure to be the first in what we hope will become a long and lustrous book-publishing career. Apocalypse on the Set retells nine true stories of film-making enterprises which have endured calamity, ruin, humiliation, or some engrossing combination thereof. It’s filled with fremdschämen, schadenfreude, and other obscure Germanic emotions. We encourage our readers to buy this book because our readers have outstanding taste. Alongside Memphis International Airport in Tennessee there lies a sprawling complex filled with hundreds of miles of conveyor belts, thousands of employees, and millions of parcels. A steady stream of cargo planes–often hundreds per day–carries in cargo from around the world to be sorted and redistributed.
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It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but sometimes finding the perfect gift for someone can be a real nightmare. If you have some geeks on your list, you might want to check this list for the perfect Christmas gift first.
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THIS concrete tube has been home to houseproud Mao Li for a year. Mao has installed a wood floor, door, rugs and cushions in the 6ft floodpipe. But the bachelor, 30, who recycles cans for a living in Haikou, southern China, is being evicted from his bridge-side pad.
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Make sure you enjoy a long laugh today: Laughter is good for you and it’s officially World Laughter Day . If you want to know about the health benefits of laughing, check out Albert Nerenberg’s serious, but fun, documentary Laughology . World Laughter Day is customarily celebrated on the first Sunday of May every year. This year on 1st of May, thousands of people in more than 70 countries will laugh together to promote peace and harmony in the midst of natural disasters, global unrest, violence and terrorism, all of which has disrupted the tranquility of our planet – mother earth. It is also a day committed to spread the message of good health and joy through laughter.Several years ago, I pitched a freelance piece about black atheism to a prominent magazine geared toward African-Americans. The pitch was denied, but not for any real reason. "That one might be a bit, uh, hard," is all my editor said. I'd later come to find out that he was merely sheltering me from his ultra-Christian executive editor, who would never let a piece questioning religion run in the magazine.
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Hey, this is the home of Chuck Shepherd's weekly News of the Weird newspaper column, which for 21 years has been the gold standard in reporting the bizarre and the ridiculous. But there's more: Here's Chuck's daily (Monday through Friday) take on the major weird news of the day, at WeirdUniverse.net , which by the way has a lot of other absurd and quixotic reports from Chuck's pals, Alex Boese and Paul Di Filippo. Here is the current, and previous six months' weekly News of the Weird columns. Enjoy yourselves! And here's a complete, word-searchable News of the Weird archive of stories back to the year 2000, at the TruTV.com website, but be careful if you try to search "pervert" or "Fla." or "arrested" because you'll kill your whole weekend!Just Wondering: Why aren't more people angry about Bret Michaels's Photoshopped mag cover? | Story | Wonderwall
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Great Britain police are concerned about a new weapon they expect to soon see on the streets. The 'wasp knife' has a needle in the tip attached to a trigger on the handle. When the trigger is pulled a ball of compressed gas is shot into the victim where it expands and freezes the internal organs killing the them.