From MSNBC.COM: 
Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists
Some beekeepers are losing 50 percent of their bees to disorder
Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go to work — and vanish without a trace.
Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.
The phenomenon […]

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From  Andy Singer.

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Will Ferrell stars in the internet video, The Landlord,  but his co-star Pearl steals the show.  Check it out.

 
From CNN.COM:
Missing child found in shot croc
BEIJING, China (AP) — A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child’s remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by […]

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This 8-minute animation from Dutch artist Michael Dudok De Wit, called Father and Daughter, is so well done.  I was moved by the story itself, but the artistry of the telling and drawing of it is beautiful.
from neatorama.

 
This came out awhile ago, but I still get a kick out of it, so here it is for your reading pleasure, as brought to you by U.K funny man, John Cleese: 
To the citizens of the United States of America -
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern […]

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Elaine Davidson is the world record holder for body piercing in the Guiness Book of Records.
She is a former nurse from Brazil , first broke the record in May 2000, when a Guinness World Records official examined her and found 462 piercings on various parts of her body, including 192 on her facial area […]

 
From MNSBC.COM: 
Reid: Iraq War lost, U.S. can’t win
Anti-war liberals in House reluctant to mount opposition to Iraq funding bill
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is “lost,” triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops. The bleak assessment - […]

Gotta love the Mr. Tough guy genius asking McCain the question…
“When do we send them an air mail message to Tehran?”
And I thought Archer Bunker was dead.
Can you believe what a bunch of numbskull morons the Repulican party has become? (I think also hear Beavis or Butthead at the very end doing their […]

 
Can words determine gender?
I tried it about a dozen times, with pieces of emails, or text I had written, or women I know had written, and each time it correctly guessed the gender of the text.   Very interesting, I would have never known that you could determine gender from words before this.

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La Journada, Mexico
This is an alarming tendency that must cause the authorities in that country to reflect: what has occurred that things should have come to this?
Filmmaker Michael Moore has no doubt: the school massacres are due to the pathology of violence and fear that prevails in the country, which has the highest rate […]

Somehow this escaped my attention when this happened a few months ago.
So who is the Booger Eater?
None other than the Right-Wing Wacko Republican from Ohio, Steve Chabot.
Congressman Booger Eater is the same Genius who said that the French didn’t understand the “Iraq Threat” back in 2003, he’s also one of the […]