“Really, really awesome. Love the little particles that jitter when she’s singing and settle back around her mouth and eyes when she’s not!” — Russ Maschmeyer
Horse Rescued From Basement
07/21/11 -- Wacky News
“The family horse fell into the basement of a home around July 18, triggering a four-hour rescue operation that included the help of a county backhoe and personnel from road and bridge, the Rattlesnake Fire Department and the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office. The call came into the sheriff’s office around 9 a.m. after the homeowner heard a noise in her basement. She went downstairs to find Summer the horse trapped inside, said Elbert County Sheriff Shayne Heap. Summer had fallen down a four-foot window well and landed in the basement, which was not constructed with a walk-out door. “We thought of bringing her up the basement stairs,” Heap said. “But the stairs didn’t look safe enough to support her weight.” A veterinarian sedated Summer, who sustained minor cuts and injuries in the fall, and a coring company was contacted to cut into the foundation of the home. The initial plan was to expose an area around a second window well, remove a portion of the foundation and create enough space to bring the horse out of the basement, Heap said.” w/ photos
100M-Year-Ago Prehistoric Crocodile
07/21/11 -- Amazing
“He measured 25ft, weighed more than a ton and lived almost 100 million years ago. A palaeontologist has identified the oldest prehistoric crocodile of its kind in the world after the fossil of a Terminonaris was found at Lake Lewisville near Dallas, Texas. The realization by Thomas L. Adams has also changed what we know about the species originally thought to have originated in Europe, because it now appears it was a native of Texas. Mr Adams, of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, identified the reptile from its long snout which is more than 2ft long and 7in wide, reported Physorg.com. It was discovered by Dallas amateur fossil enthusiast Brian Condon, who found the heavy pieces of the snout and a vertebrate in 2005 while fossil hunting, and donated them to the university.” w/ photos
The Exit
07/21/11 -- Pretty Cool
Baby Raspberries
07/21/11 -- Hilarious
Unleash Your Fingers
07/21/11 -- Pretty Cool
The Stampler
07/21/11 -- Neat Products
“The Stampler is the perfect way to express your feelings about your not-so-paperless office. Whenever you use it to staple your cover sheet to your TPS report, it also stamps a HAVE A NICE DAY face to the top page. The staple serves as the mouth, permanently drawn in a straight, thin-lipped expression, much like the one on your face every work day.” w/ photos
Top 10 Intellectual Rappers
07/21/11 -- Top Lists
“Despite being in the mainstream consciousness for over twenty years now, Hip-Hop is still largely thought to consist solely of idiotic, crude and often pointlessly violent lyrics that debase and malign the English language. Although to be fair, that is still the majority of the Hip-Hop music being shoved down our throats by the big music labels and radio. However, there is an increasingly large presence of extremely intelligent Hip-Hop pushing the genre’s boundaries and transforming rap into academically and artistically viable poetry.” w/ photos
