Human Slinky ®

Romanian profesional entertainer Ioan Veniamin Oprea A.K.A. Human Slinky® as seen on David Letterman in 1997 New York, America's Got Talent 2007-2009, The View, Viva Variety - Comedy Central,

 

A new home at last for the blind Great Dane and her devoted guide dog

Len Williams and his wife Anne with blind Lily and her guide dog Maddison. 

 The couple have taken in the two dogs after reading about them in the Daily Mail.

 

The world needs to see this puppy.

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Pregnant women control birth to avoid Halloween

"Fright night just got a little bit spookier. Pregnant women have their own little trick on Halloween – they seem able to time the delivery of their baby to avoid giving birth on this day. Rebecca Levy at Yale School of Public Health and colleagues examined 1.8 million US birth records from 1996 to 2006, and found that birth rates dropped by 11.3 per cent on 31 October, when compared with the two-week window surrounding the date. The significant declines in deliveries on Halloween applied to natural births as well as scheduled caesarean and induced births. "The study raises the possibility that the assumption underlying the term 'spontaneous birth', namely, that births are outside the control of pregnant women, is erroneous," says Levy. She says a psychological influence over hormonal activity may be at work."

  By Chelsea Whyte /New Scientist/more

Cyanide & Happiness

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Heidi Klum strips off skin for Halloween

"The Halloween-loving supermodel and Project Runway host, 38, managed to top herself yet again at her eponymous Halloween Party held Saturday at Tao at The Venetian in Las Vegas."
UsMagazine.com

Brain winter hat.

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World's 'seven billionth baby' is born

Photograph: Erik De Castro/AFP/Getty Images 

 "The world's seven billionth baby has been born in a packed government-run hospital in the Philippines. Weighing 2.5kg (5.5lb), Danica May Camacho was chosen by the United Nations to be one of several children around the world who will symbolically represent the global population milestone. She was delivered just before midnight on Sunday amid an explosion of press camera flashes at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital."
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Why do ghosts say “boo”?

"Ghosts were saying "boo!" by the middle of the 19th century, though the exclamation had been used to frighten English-speaking children for at least 100 years before that. Perhaps the first appearance of boo in print comes from the book-length polemic Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display’d (1738), in which author Gilbert Crokatt defines it as , “a word that’s used in the north of Scotland to frighten crying children.” (It's not clear why people in Scotland would want to frighten a crying child.) The verbal tactic had been adopted by proper ghosts—and people with sheets on their heads—by the 1820s at the latest." By Forrest Wickman /Slate Magazine / more

What happens when two vampires meet?

It was love at first bite! 

 

Occupy Halloween

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Two bats get into the spirit of Halloween

Picture: Bat World Sanctuary / Barcroft Media 

 Telegraph

A 20 million ton asteroid is currently hurtling through space at 23,000 miles per hour, on a collision course with Earth.

"When Paul Chodas and Steve Chesley arrived at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a valley beneath the slopes of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, on October 6 2008, they assumed it would be a normal day. But it would prove to be anything but. The scientists worked for the space administration’s Near Earth Object (NEO) programme, a team tasked with identifying comets, asteroids and meteors that potentially pose a threat to Earth. A normal day meant scanning their screens for small white dots in our solar system — the vast majority of which were either too far away to ever be a problem or so small they would burn up in our atmosphere long before they could ever do any serious damage. On that Monday morning, however, Chodas noticed an asteroid about the size of a truck beyond the moon’s orbit. It was on a collision course with Earth."

  By Alex Hannaford / Telegraph / more

Ceci n'est pas mon costume d'Halloween.

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25 Awesome Horror Films You Probably Haven’t Seen

Son of Dracula (1943)

 Fun fact:
Son of Dracula was the first film to show the Count's transformation from man into bat on screen!
 more here

 

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Siri, in a Year.

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Google Says Romney Can't Win

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Cat logic

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What Brits say vs. what they really mean...

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How to draw... monsters

Tony Ross shows you how to master fangs, claws and roars.

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Do You Mind

By Dan Piraro

After Facebook Campaign, Jack the Cat Found Alive at JFK Airport

"Jack is the tabby cat whose owner, Karen Pasco, had checked him into the American Airlines baggage area at New York's JFK Airport before she boarded a flight to escape Hurricane Irene back in August. However, in preparation for the storm, parts of the airport were closed down and Jack somehow got loose from his cargo cage. One extended search and an angry Facebook group later, still no trace of Jack could be found.

Until late Tuesday night, that is: an employee found the missing feline in an airport customs room. The cat has been taken to a Queens veterinarian hospital where's he's being treated for dehydration.

American Airlines has issued a public apology to Pasco and Jack, and even offered the cat a free flight to California to be reunited with his owner. However, after his ordeal, we can't imagine Jack wants to go near an airport anytime soon."
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Ex-Croatian PM's corruption trial adjourned

"The trial of former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was adjourned Friday because of his health problems. Sanader faces charges of receiving kickbacks from an Austrian bank during the time he served as deputy foreign minister in the 1990s. He is the highest ranking former Croat official to face war profiteering corruption charges. The trial was adjourned after only some 40 minutes when Sanader complained of heart problems and high blood pressure. The judge scheduled a new court hearing for Nov. 3. Sanader is charged with abuse of power when he allegedly took the equivalent of some $695,000 (euro495,000) for a credit deal with Hypo Alpe Adria Group in 1994-95 that allowed the Austrian bank entry into the Croatian market. The charges say that Croatia was at war for independence at the time and that Sanader "used the difficult position of the country to gain personal financial profit." Sanader was Croatia's prime minister for six years before resigning in 2009. He was extradited to Croatia from Austria in July to face several charges of corruption."
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