The latest craze in China: dyeing your dog so it looks like a different animal (tigers and pandas seem to be particular favourites). With pictures.

While on pictures, lots and lots of pictures of pretty boys and men kissing, hugging, holding hands, etc (worksafe). Awwwh! :)

For splodgenoodles :)


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Venezuela now has over 30,000 Cuban advisers.

Pointing out that every President since Nixon has vowed to reduce American dependency on foreign oil, while use of foreign oil has gone up and up.

Not a good photo moment for the Obama Administration.

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The funniest sentence I have read in a while:
Since our world is currently under the iron grip of a consortium that includes 4chan and The Onion’s editorial board, the Nobel Peace Prize was just accepted by a man currently escalating a land war in Asia.

A workshop on government openness that is closed to public.

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John Pugh’s 3-D building murals.

About the precious notes of Art Tatum, jazz pianist and amazing virtuoso.

Photos through time: old photos put up and rephotographed against the current backdrop.

Striking black-and-white pictures of the Graf Zeppelin over the Capitol in 1928 and of New York in 1931 here and here.

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