Recently I posted a request to help me build my trivia muscles, and got a response from my cousin, who asked "What is the capital of Bermuda?" I didn't know, but now I do. Win ( Read more... )

I've been half-watching a nature program on TV - the kind where they try to prove how awesome an animal is by assessing its skill as a killer - and they had footage of an arctic fox (being chased by a polar bear). So cute! A google image search for arctic fox brought me to this site. Pictures so pretty! If I won Lotto I would definitely go on a ( Read more... )

Um, WTF?.

I found this person's journal searching for people who like two minute noodles. Don't ask.

I'd be tempted to write a witty and pointed rejoinder, but I'm pretty sure this is a joke. (Or is it? A lot of sunburn in Queensland!) [No, I don't mean you, paraphasiclotus!] ;-)

Government mind control, anyone?

(Found in wtf_inc)

Edit: Oops, might have been a bit of a kneejerk. A lot of people have commented that there is no backup for this article, and there are quite a lot of factual inaccuracies. So, probably crap.

Scientific conference falls for gibberish prankA bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ( Read more... )

Check this out:

http://www.bodypositive.com/

and especially:

http://www.bodypositive.com/top10.htm

I never thought I'd see this again, but:

The Sample Centre

You fill in surveys, give them $11.50 AU, and they send you a box full of mystery! How can it get any better than that?!

I was going to post this as a cut in the previous post, but since LJ was being a biatch (seriously, I cut-and pasted the lj-cut tag from the FAQ page. How much more correct can it be??) I couldn't do it.

Some poetry quoted by chiisaihito:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary ( Read more... )

Insinuations about mental health and family relationships prolonged a dying child's agony, writes Julie Robotham.

( Full text, because it won't be there forever )