(blue = pop, yellow = soda, red = coke)
Growing up on the East Coast (for the most part) people where I lived in Southern Maryland called carbinated sugar water that you buy in cans soda, or, sometimes coke (even if it wasn’t coke), but mostly soda.
Then during the summer I would visit my cousins in […]

What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)Midland
(”Midland” is not necessarily the same thing as “Midwest”) The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it’s a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn’t mean you’re from the Midland.

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Over on the Wall Street Journal Website they have an interesting little article ojn the history of Presidential Approval ratings since Harry Truman.
It’s interesting to note that every President since Truman, even Kennedy, ended up with a lower approval rating at the end of their time in office than when they started,  with one exception,  […]

VideoJug: How To Kiss Someone Passionately
By Restless
This Brit-made vid is a funny how-to on kissing.  Check it out!
Link (from boing boing)

(Eve Flintstone wearing her 17th century Puritan outfit and her pet Dinosaur Dino)
More from the Museum of the Stupid…
Great photos here of a $27 million dollar waste of money.
If these nutjobs were truely “Christian”  couldn’t that money have gone to something like, oh, I dunno,  orphans in Seirra Leone, food for the poor, or shelter for […]

From The BBC:
Patient bleeds dark green blood
A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.
The man emulated Star Trek’s Mr Spock - the Enterprise’s science officer who supposedly had green Vulcan blood.
In this case, the unusual colour of the 42-year-old’s blood […]

From the video description on You-Tube…
Preston Wheeler, a truck driver for KBR a subsidiary of Halliburton shot this amazing video of his truck convoy being ambushed in Iraq. The attack occurred after the U.S. military made a wrong turn down a dead-end street. Mr. Wheeler is lucky to be alive. Three KBR truck drivers were […]

 
From The BBC:
Bear robot rescues wounded troops
The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield.
The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can scoop up even the heaviest of casualties and transport them over long distances over rough terrain
It is expected to be ready for […]

Kinda cool to see one of those text book physics questions actually performed in real life.

 
From CNN.COM:
Truck takes man in wheelchair on a wild ride
PAW PAW, Michigan (AP) — A man was taken on a wild ride when his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for four miles at about 50 mph, authorities said.
The 21-year-old man, whose name was not […]

23 seconds to contemplate your doom. ouch.

By Restless
This animation is one of two promoting condom use in France. It’s a great little story, told well. The above is the straight one; the gay one can be found linked below. Check it out! 
UPDATE: Violet Blue points to another ad from this series on videosift.com
Alberto Colin says,
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