beauty and the beast

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Incredible Volcano Footage

clipped from blogs.discovery.com the most insanely interesting volcanic footage I have ever seen! Watch it all the way through because it gets closer up and more intense towards the end. Amazing stuff!

Hemingway’s posthumous memoir of his early days in Paris, “A Moveable Feast,”

‘Moveable Feast’ Is Recast by Hemingway Grandson - NYTimes.com

"How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?

Words, and classifications of words in different languages, do matter

clipped from www.npr.org "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" Look at it for a moment and ask yourself, "What three descriptive words come into my head when I look at a bridge?" OK, here's the same bridge. Does it by any chance look: Or, are you more likely to describe it as: The first batch of words — such as beautiful, elegant, slender — were those used most often by a group of German speakers Lera Boroditsky, told the group to describe the image that came to mind when they were shown the word, "bridge. The second batch of words — such as strong, sturdy, towering — were most often chosen by people whose first language is Spanish. What explains the difference? because the word for "bridge" in is a feminine noun in Spanish — el puente — is a masculine noun, native speakers unconsciously give nouns the characteristics of their grammatical gender William Shakespeare may have said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet but Boroditsky thinks Words, and classifications of words in different languages, do matter

Top reasons people are still using Internet Explorer

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Clowns pwn Nazi/KKK rally - Awesome!

Truly brilliant. "Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns. http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/7704982.html"

clipped from www.neatorama.com Here’s an excellent example of pwnage: when the white supremacist group VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK tried to host a hate rally in Knoxville, Tennessee, they were foiled by … clowns! “White Power!” the Nazi’s shouted, “White Flour?” the clowns yelled back running in circles throwing flour in the air and raising separate letters which spelt “White Flour”. “White Power!” the Nazi’s angrily shouted once more, “White flowers?” the clowns cheers and threw white flowers in the air and danced about merrily. “White Power!” the Nazi’s tried once again in a doomed and somewhat funny attempt to clarify their message, “ohhhhhh!” the clowns yelled “Tight Shower!” and held a solar shower in the air and all tried to crowd under to get clean as per the Klan’s directions.

the new way to wipe your bum

extension of 18 inches!!!! Holy crap...where's his arse? In another postcode!

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