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I wonder what he was praying for?

No, this isn’t some fancy Photoshop trick, these are real human footprints ingrained in a hardwood floor. 70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches

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100 'best' opening lines

The American Book Review has a cynical traffic generating list of the best 100 opening lines from literature. I just read the whole thing so you don't have to and to be honest I don't think you have to. They don't really get it.

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I'm sorry Alice

Maybe it is the recent experience of protesting against the pope that has me seeing paedophilia everywhere. Or, without knowing it,  i've become a Daily Mail reader. Which gives much the same effect from completely opposite causes. Anyhow, somehow my mind has been poisoned and I  see peedos

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The king's players

At Shakespeare's Globe they take your title very seriously.

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We're all armed with coffee cups.

What's your weapon of choice?.

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Robot snake climbs real tree

[youtube 8VLjDjXzTiU] CMU’s Biorobotics Lab have build a modular robotic snake. It can climb trees and spy on you. Air penguins, Robotuna, and now this? The robot uprising may have already started. via Singularity Hub Update: Oh brilliant, they're letting robots take over the hospitals. That will

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The form is strong in this one.

Here's Darth Vader performing the 42 move Yang style sword form of Tai Chi Chuan. As you might expect, he's actually pretty good.

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Scientists kill supercute Tasmanian devils with face cancer.

These cute little beasties are biting each other and getting face cancer in the process. Cedric appeared to have natural immunity, so scientists at U. Tasmania deliberately infected him. Sadly, he wasn't immune so they put him down. But they're hoping he hasn't died

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tommorow's meme tooday

OPPS - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog credit to bigmoney

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Richard very Scary

Children's Books All Grown Up.

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A skill skull made of brains.

A couple of years ago Noah Scalin decided to make a years worth of skull artworks. That's 365 days of skulls. If you've got the time, it's worth looking through the whole project because it is an artwork in its own right. Needless to

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The country where I quite want to be.

Once again Finland comes first in the annual slightly silly game of which country is the best. This time around Newsweek have produced a neat little interactive infographic to summarise all the rankings. Countries are ranked on five dimensions (education, health, quality of life, economics and politics) These numbers are

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Joggin' Dijon

The great thing about joggin' in a place you don't know is that you don't know where you are going so you don't worry so much about how far you've run and you have lots of new scenery to distract you.

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Hug

After that, maybe you need.. Amazon.com: Hug: Jez Alborough.

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All My Friends Are Dead

via Blame it on the Voices

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PostSecret

PostSecret is my new favourite blog. Not that my puny clicks will add much to the354,708,351 they already have. Which makes me realise that this is yet another meme that i arrived late for. Or maybe, I came early and have conveniently forgotten the fact. Anyway, I'

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Steady on, old chap.

Paste some of your writing into the box on this site and they'll tell you which author your style or vocabluary most resembles. It's very frustrating that they don't give any details of how they decide it or what stats they are performing. And

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Three out. Of three.

[caption id="attachment_982" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="~Nadja ~Max & ~Tessa\'s room"] [/caption] Who needs an octopus to demonstrate publication bias? The door of my spare room has pretty good track record so far. Although, it is more

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FAILE goes Monumental in Lisboa

I don't know the story behind this ruined remixed monument by FAILE in Lisbon but it is utterly fantastic. more here: DFLEKTOR blog » Blog Archive » FAILE Lisboa.

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Sharktopus

Syfy's new made for TV film.. the title tells you almost everything you need to know. The only question that remains... Is sharktopus psychic? via urlesque

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It's not funny but grudgingly engaging.

I've never laughed at the "antics" of Noel Edmunds, Jeremy Beadle and all the other Candid Camera cunning stunts. Antics are all very well when it's Tom and Jerry or other cartoons but i've always felt very uncomfortable with any smug twat

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Unbeatable Eggs!

Unbeatable Eggs? | Skepchick's Flickr.

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Sad but happy!

So it turns out there was a more complicated version of the happiness flowchart Path to happiness gets complicated and confusing I will pass, thank you. I am pretty good at being happy. I think every year of my life has been happier than the last and long may this

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Horizontal version of the leaning tower illusion

The leaning tower illusion won the VSS Illusion of the year contest in 2007. Below is horizontal version of  the same thing. These two photo's are completely identical.. Bloody hell, can’t believe that these are the same… « Richard Wiseman's Blog. Here's the explanation

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Moments of information

This is the moment Bill Clinton lied (to himself) 3quarksdaily