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It’s Only a Flesh Wound!
Submitted by frostfire on Thu, 2008-08-21 07:41. flesh | wound
Who didn’t love the Black Knight in the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Now you can get your own talking Black Knight with removable limbs!
You’ll love to torture him with his tear-off and stick-on arms and legs and hear him say “Tis nothing but a scratch” or the famous “I’ll bite your legs off!” quote. Character featured in Monty Python’s The Quest for the Holy Grail, and now famous in the touring play Spamalot, this 14″ “character” comes in a collector’s edition box. Perfect for your favorite Monty Python fan-atic.
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The Biggest Hole in the World
Submitted by frostfire on Thu, 2008-08-21 07:10. hole | world
It’s a diamond mine in Mirna, Siberia. It measures 525 m deep and 1.25 km in diameter. The suction from the hole is so powerful that helicopters flying over it have crashed. Link
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| | | Michael Phelps as a young swimmer
Submitted by frostfire on Thu, 2008-08-21 07:07. Michael Phelps | swimmer
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| | | Wasp Mantidfly
Submitted by frostfire on Thu, 2008-08-21 07:01. Mantidfly | Wasp
Is it a mantid, a wasp, or a fly? Answer: none of the above. This is a Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea), which is more closely related to a green lacewing than any of its namesakes. Although this picture is featured on Iowa Voices, it was taken in Illinois. Link
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| | | Air Conditioned Bus Stop
Submitted by frostfire on Wed, 2008-08-20 07:34. Air Conditioned | Bus Stop
That, my friend, is an air-conditioned bus stop (presumably near Burj Al Arab hotel, where one night stay costs about US$ 1,000). Must be nice to be rich! (though why would they take the bus, then?)
Found at Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
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| | | You've Been Hurt
Submitted by frostfire on Wed, 2008-08-20 07:00. Hurt
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| | | Cabernet Couch: Wine Jug Couch by Carlo Rossi
Submitted by frostfire on Wed, 2008-08-20 06:33. Cabernet | couch
That’s the Cabernet Couch, made from 33 empty Cabernet jugs and vintage corduroy futon mattress for the winemaker Carlo Rossi.
In what can only be called a strange yet utterly fascinating effort to turn the image of wine jugs from being associated with drunk winos into haute couture, Carlo Rossi also has the Chardonnay Chandelier ("jug count: 33"), Burgundy Bookshelf (jug count: 28), Paisano Plasma TV Stand, and more.
Link: Cabernet Couch
| | | Segway Polo
Submitted by frostfire on Wed, 2008-08-20 06:25. Polo | Segway
It’s just like regular polo, except the players ride Segways instead of horses. The first organized match was in 2004, and now the game is played worldwide. The international championship tournament is called the Woz Challenge Cup (yes, named after Steve Wozniak) and has been held annually since 2006. Link
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| | | Why Are Georgia (the State) and Georgia (the Country) Both Named Georgia?
Submitted by frostfire on Wed, 2008-08-20 06:18. georgia
If you’ve ever wondered why Georgia (the US state) and Georgia (the country) are both named Georgia, Noreen Malone of Slate has the answer:
Why does a country that was formerly part of the USSR have the
same name as a state in the American Deep South?Both got their present-day monikers from the British. The name of the country comes from the Russian word Gruzia, which was in turn derived from the Persian and Turkish versions of the name George, Gorj and Gurju. It’s not clear when the Brits started using the word Georgia in place of Gruzia, but scholars believe the switch happened sometime in the late Middle Ages. [...]
The American Georgia, on the other hand, was named after King George II of England, who granted the state its charter in 1732. The –ia suffix, meaning "state of," comes from the Greek and was tacked onto the end of many place names via the vast imperial and lingual legacy of the Romans. The name George became popular in Western Europe only after the Crusades, when knights traveling to the Holy Land came in contact with the widespread veneration of the saint among the Eastern Christians—in places like Georgia. (George became the patron saint of England in the 1340s.) Meanwhile, the saint’s name derives from Greek and refers to a tiller of land. In that respect, both Georgia and Georgia live up to their names.
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| | | Olympic torch is lighting the Moon
Submitted by frostfire on Tue, 2008-08-19 07:18. lightning | moon | Olympic | torch
"I was running late, rushing from my last job to the Bird's Nest for the men's 100m final - as I turned the corner with one of my colleagues we saw a full moon rising above the stadium and we could not believe our luck!
"I had to decide if it would be worth stopping to shoot this picture and risk losing my spot in the stadium - I decided I could shoot this image quickly.
"Luckily I had a long lens with me, as it would have been difficult to capture the image without it. I waited a few minutes for the moon to move in line with the torch and this was the result."
Photo: Ryan Pierse/ Getty Images/ 18 August 2008
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| | | Another Kind of Birth Control
Submitted by frostfire on Tue, 2008-08-19 07:17. Birth Control
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| | | Don't You Have a Brutal Stupid War of Your Own to Go To?
Submitted by frostfire on Tue, 2008-08-19 07:09. war
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| | | Live NBC Olympic Coverage
Submitted by frostfire on Tue, 2008-08-19 07:03. Coverage | live | NBC | Olympic
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| | | Human Rights
Submitted by frostfire on Mon, 2008-08-18 07:52. human | Rights
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| | | Sunrise - High camp at 17,200 ft. on Denali
Submitted by frostfire on Mon, 2008-08-18 07:40. camp | Denali | Sunrise
More details on the mountain.
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by frostfire - You've Been Hurt
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by frostfire - Olympic torch is lighting the Moon
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