For a moment this guy breaks out of the surfer stereotype and gives a well worded response to a news reporter regarding the recent weather in LA. picked by chuckayoub 2 years ago

Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories. picked by Bingo 5 months ago

This is not a joke. The reverse vasectomy was performed on a Przewalski horse, one of the few remaining truly "wild" horses left in the world.

One giant step for veterinary science, 3 giant slurs on mankind. picked by dreamering 1 year ago

We live on a small green planet spinning in a mysterious universe, part of a complex and subtle eco-system that we do not yet fully understand. Science has progressed at breakneck speed in the last hundred years and our knowledge of how our world works and our place in it increases every day but even now there is much that science cannot explain. Like the things listed here, for example. picked by kakana 4 months ago

Images of beautiful but impossible and unreal places and things picked by kamaloo 2 years ago

The Netherlands — that’s Holland to most Americans — is known the world over for its progressive attitude. Dutch policies on recreational drugs, prostitution, same-sex marriage and euthanasia, are among the most liberal in the world. picked by girlofyourdreams 3 years ago

Have a picture of a strange bug you've never seen before? Or perhaps you just want to peruse through galleries of creepy crawlies from around the world to plan your next attack on that talkative roommate? This is the site for you. picked by SUBobISIS 1 year ago

From a CBS news report in 1972. Walter Cronkite has trouble keeping a straight face.

More on Cuero's TurkeyFest picked by suebe 2 years ago

13 GIGAPIXEL photograph.

Stats:
Shooting took two hours and ten minutes
Total number of shots: 2,045
All shot with a D2X and 300mm Nikkor Lens picked by thebassman 3 years ago

President Obama checked in this week, becoming the latest world leader to stay in the four-bedroom suite. In fact, every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover has either stayed in or lived at the Waldorf's towers.

<< That's Hoover in the theme pic picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

THE United States has far more juveniles serving life terms than any other country — 2387. Israel, the only other country that imprisons juveniles for life, according to a new study by the University of San Francisco's Centre for Law & Global Justice, has seven — and has not issued such a sentence since 2004. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Considering the quite depressing newsstories posted here, I thought, "It's time for some positive news". picked by DoggySpew 2 years ago

republicans, protesters & anarchists, oh my!
they're smashing up my town. the only good news is bush/cheney cancelled and the daily show is in town.

link includes video and photos. picked by indisguise 1 year ago

UK PlayStation 3 sales have rocketed following the recent price cut and the introduction of an entry-level SKU. picked by punthe 2 years ago

For Earth Hour, citizens of the world will turn off their power for an hour at 8:30 p.m. on March 28, in a move against global warming.

*no Plime for 60 minutes? Uhhh, I don't think so* picked by kakana 8 months ago

Day after day, upon arriving home from preschool, Caitlin would retreat into a bizarre fantasy world. Other days she would burst into singing and chase after imaginary objects. While some heartless people are skeptical, for those whose children carry the burden, YTD is all too real. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

As dispatch rider Alex Ross travelled through the hostile Egyptian desert, deep behind enemy lines, his few mementos of home must have meant the world to him. So his horror at realising the pannier containing them had fallen off his motorcycle during one of his dangerous missions can easily be imagined. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In other news, Monkey says "what?" picked by blankspace73 2 years ago

PAGE, Arizona (ABC 4 News) - Water will blast out of four outlet jets at the Glen Canyon Dam next week at a rate of 41,000 cubic feet per second. That’s four to five times normal. It will create a man-made flood -- only the 3rd such flood on the Colorado River in the last 12 years. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

Gawker reports Sheppard Smith [FOX News] took Nader to task for a comment he made on a radio station earlier in the day, saying Barack Obama's choice is "whether he's going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country, or Uncle Tom for the giant corporation."

Was Nader out of line, correct, or irrelevant? picked by ImNotBlue 1 year ago