September 2011
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August 2011
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Brings a new meaning to tracking packages!
June 2011
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What can 28,000 rubber duckies lost at sea teach...
A shipping container filled with rubber duckies was lost at sea in 1992, and the bath toys are still washing ashore today.
By Bryan NelsonTue, Mar 01 2011 at 6:24 PM EST Photo: poolie/Flickr In 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 plastic bath toys was lost at sea when it fell overboard on its way from Hong Kong to the United States. No one at the time could have guessed...
May 2011
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Generational Loss
“Brooklyn artist Daniel Bejar made a copy of the key to his apartment (hopefully not his current one, because of stuff like this). Then he made a copy of the copy. And then he repeated the process, by my count, 67 times. At which point the copy was an uncut blank. Kind of like I Am Sitting In a Room, but with keys. He calls it Visual Topography of a Generation Gap. [via Boing...
How Osama bin Laden's death sparked a fake Martin...
By Eoin O’Carroll, CSMonitor.com / May 3, 2011
If you were online Monday, there’s a decent chance you spotted this quote:
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To many who found the celebrations of Osama bin...
April 2011
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Altoona, Pa., changes name to Spurlock movie title
By JOE MANDAK, Associated Press – Tue Apr 26, 11:12 am ET
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, Pa. (AP) — About 31,000 central Pennsylvanians will soon be living in a joke.
Beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday, the city of Altoona will change its name to “POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” after the latest film by sarcastic...
