Over on Addictinggames.com they have this really cool game for Geography nerds like me, click here to fit State puzzle pieces onto a blank map of the USA. Can you beat my score? I got one wrong, and that’s only because I put Nebraska a wee bit to far to the left. […]

From YahooNews:
India’s Green-fingered guru seeks tree planting record
NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Indian guru is seeking a spot in the Guinness Book of Records by organising for hundreds of thousands of trees to be planted in a single day.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation, hopes to plant 700,000 trees throughout Tamil Nadu in the south […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
Huge African diamond sells for over $12 million
Giant gem is biggest found in 13 years
ANTWERP, Belgium - The biggest diamond to be found in 13 years, the “Lesotho Promise,” was sold on Monday at auction for more than $12 million and is expected to fetch in excess of $20 million once it is cut […]

From YahooNews:
Sinkhole swallows part of Mo. man’s home
NIXA, Mo. - A leisurely Sunday morning turned frightening for one southwest Missouri man when a giant sinkhole opened up and swallowed a portion of his home, including his garage and a car parked inside.
The homeowner was reading the paper when the ground started shifting around 8:30 […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
Fries are French again on Capitol Hill
GOP had led 2003 push in House cafeteria to rename them ‘Freedom Fries’
Call it a fry rapprochement.
Three years after now-embattled Rep. Bob Ney, along with Rep. Walter Jones, led the effort to rename french fries “Freedom Fries” in an attempt to strike back at France for not contributing […]

From YahooNews: 
Mass. cemetery’s graves sliding down hill
GREENFIELD, Mass. - The eternal slumbers of about 50 people — including a former Massachusetts governor — are about to be interrupted, either by nature or man.
Directors of the Green River Cemetery are rushing against gravity in an attempt to exhume and rebury the remains before they slide down […]

From The BBC:
Secrets of ocean birth laid bare
The largest tear in the Earth’s crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data.
Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
Is that an endangered species in your pocket?
Man fined for smuggling rare bird eggs in undies as ‘surprise’ for girlfriend
SYDNEY, Australia - A man caught with six eggs from endangered species in his underwear as he was preparing to fly to Bangkok was fined 25,000 Australian dollars (US$20,000) Monday by a judge who rejected […]

This is where it all begins.
Today chimps are playing Pac Man.
And tomorrow….

From RedOrbit.COM: 
Scorpions, worms and ants on the menu at club
NEW YORK — A discerning guest at a Manhattan cocktail party removed a scorpion from its bed of cheese on an endive leaf and popped it in his mouth, determined to savour the taste unadulterated.
“Nutty, sweet,” was the verdict of Gourmet magazine food editor Ian Knauer […]

 
From The Sun Times: 
Fisherman hooks piranha in Des Plaines River
It wasn’t until Bridgeview angler Ed Reinhart pulled his seventh fish out of the Des Plaines River on Sunday afternoon that it became clear why the first six had been so eager to get out of the water.
“Jaws,” an 11-inch, 11/2-pound red-bellied piranha, isn’t the sort of […]

From The Daily Mail: 
Mosquitos attracted by ‘pleasant’ human odours
On any summer holiday, there are always some members of the family who get bitten much more than others. Now scientists have worked out why.
It seems some people emit odours which act as natural insect repellants.
The scientists have now identified the chemicals and hope their finding will […]

 
From YahooNews: 
Army called to fight toad invasion in Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian state government called for the army to be deployed against an invasion of toxic toads.
 
Battalions of imported cane toads are marching relentlessly across northern Australia and the West Australian government wants soldiers to intercept the environmental barbarians.
State Environment Minister Mark McGowan has […]

 
From SFGATE.COM:
Eco-porn: Great Sex For A Good Cause
Tommy and Leona are having sex on a tree stump in the middle of a Norwegian clear-cut. Leona, with a mop of brown dreads and a lip ring, looks dreamily across the demolished forest as Tommy, a little shaggy in nothing but a knit hat, works his magic.
A […]