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2013-05-23 01:25:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Gif inventor says pronounce it 'Jif' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22620473

2013-05-07 18:25:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Cool! :8)

2013-05-05 21:09:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Maloko from the inside. It's run by fabulous Evagle from Cameroon. Love me some Camberwell :8)

2013-05-04 17:09:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Gluten-free galettes, crêpes, and herbal teas: looks as though it's Camberwell's turn :8) LOL

2013-05-01 17:30:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yay :8)

2013-05-01 07:02:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-30 05:00:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-11 19:41:37 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wow.

2012-10-27 00:06:39 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Can we have archaic and eat it too? #justsayin

2012-09-16 20:10:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Post-haircut :8)

2012-08-11 19:57:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-07-13 11:32:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-05-15 23:42:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-13 04:34:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-05-13 03:41:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

*Nepal's mystery language on the verge of extinction*

The BBC's Bimal Gautam in Nepal meets the last surviving speaker in the country of the mysterious Kusunda language.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17537845

2012-05-08 12:38:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

sheer perfection, again from South Africa

2012-05-04 09:16:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-05-02 20:43:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-02 20:35:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-02 17:50:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-02 17:18:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-01 04:31:38 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The year is 1/3 over ...

2012-04-27 17:41:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-01-30 21:49:29 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

British speech: what you think it means, and what it really means LOL

2012-01-29 19:07:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2012-01-14 10:30:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-01-14 00:48:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Why alcohol is so addictive

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/01/13/alcohol-addictive-endorphins-_n_1202406.html

2012-01-14 00:24:30 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

Why Do Dogs Walk in a Circle Before Lying Down?

The circling thing is a relic of domestic dogs’ wild past, a bit of hard-wired behavior that hasn’t been bred out yet. Biologists and dog experts say that it might just be a strange quirk for domestic pooches, but for wild dogs and wolves, circling before hunkering down for the night was practical and sometimes even life-saving.Dogs’ ancestors traveled in packs and slept out in the open. Doggie beds were a few thousand years away, so a good way to get comfortable sleeping on the ground was to tramp down some grass and vegetation to make a “bed.” Walking around in a tight circle a few times would mat down tall grass to sleep on and also disturb and kick up any bugs or snakes that might be lying in the dog’s chosen spot.There might be a social element to circling, too. Wolves and wild dogs often travel in packs and have strictsocial hier... more »

2012-01-14 00:18:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mitt Romney lambasted in attack ad for speaking French

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-us-canada-16549624

2012-01-13 08:11:33 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)

The origins of punctuation marks we use in everyday life:


Question Mark ?
Origin: When early scholars wrote in Latin, they would place the word questio – meaning “question” – at the end of a sentence to indicate a query. To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem – readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercased q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our current question mark.

Exclamation Point !
Origin: Like the question mark, the exclamation point was invented by stacking letters. The mark comes from the Latin word io, meaning “exclamation of joy.” Written vertically, with the i above the o, it forms the exclamation point we use today.

Equal Sign =
Origin:Invented by W... more »

2012-01-10 00:26:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-01-08 17:09:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Johanna Nyberg Hamrén recently posted this video on Facebook. It's a great reminder that how feminity, the body, and sex is portrayed in media and advertising has become successively more distorted and destructive over the last 30 to 40 years.

Watch it if you were not aware that the woman on the magazine cover might consist of parts from four different people.

Watch it if you're the least bit confused by the fact that some people worry sick about their appearance.

Watch it if you're ever exposed to advertising.


Part 1: http://bit.ly/qyvMI3
Part 2: http://bit.ly/r2vjyZ

2012-01-05 08:03:51 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

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2012-01-05 07:10:06 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Waterfall, Moonbow, and Aurora from Iceland

The longer you look at this image, the more you see. Perhaps your eye is first drawn to the picturesque waterfall called Skogarfoss visible on the image right. Just as prevalent, however, in this Icelandic visual extravaganza, is the colorful arc of light on the left. This chromatic bow is not a rainbow, since the water drops did not originate in rainfall nor are they reflecting light from the Sun. Rather, the drops have drifted off from the waterfall and are now illuminated by the nearly full Moon. High above are the faint green streaks of aurora. The scene, captured one night last month, also shows a beautiful starscape far in the background, including the Big Dipper, part of the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major).

http://www.nasa.gov/

2012-01-05 06:04:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Via +Hans Boshoff . :)

2011-12-28 17:02:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011-12-28 15:37:23 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Um chapéu faz toda a diferença

2011-12-28 15:37:02 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Rival priests in Bethlehem brawl

A turf war prompts scuffles between groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christian clerics armed with brooms in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16347418 >

2011-12-21 05:05:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Kim Jong Il: 10 things you never knew

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-20-kim-jongil-ten-things-you-never-knew/

2011-12-21 01:45:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Steven Spielberg’s “Adventures of Tintin”

brings to computerized life a boy of pluck, ingenuity and derring-do.

http://nyti.ms/udGr1x

2011-12-19 11:13:54 (7 comments, 5 reshares, 5 +1s)

Find the cure.

2011-12-19 08:17:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Beatbox Rev wins Nativity contest

A Devon vicar wins a national competition for his beatbox version of the Nativity.

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-16236129 >

2011-12-18 08:45:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fans leaving the stadium in Marseille after Olympique Marseille beat Lorient 2-1

2011-12-18 00:03:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2011-12-17 23:37:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011-12-17 15:03:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2011-12-17 08:22:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011-12-16 09:34:59 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2011-12-16 00:32:30 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Kong is China's character of 2011

China chooses the character "kong" meaning "control" as word of the year for 2011 in state-backed poll.

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-16207541 >

2011-12-15 15:46:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)