Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Rooster Sunglasses Drive Chicks Wild
Even chickens like to keep a-breast of the latest trends.
So when farmers in Chengdu, south west China, issued their cockerels with these John Lennon-style sunglasses, they couldn't wait to drive the chicks wild with their new look.
But although looking cool, the experimental glasses have a practical use beyond sending the cockrels cock-a-hoop.
They were really designed to help avoid fights breaking out between rival roosters at the free range farm, explained farm owners.
"Because they are allowed to roam around during the day in the open space, it’s inevitable the cocks will start picking fights with each other, so we decided to make them all wear glasses," said breeder Jiang Hau.
"Our cocks are very aggressive by nature. They always fight with each other and cause bleeding and injuries.
"But giving them these plastic glasses to wear means they can’t see each other so clearly so they are much quieter and much more peaceful," he added.
Now other farmers in the region are looking to see how the glasses work out and, if they are a success, say they will give all their cocks the new look too.
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The 25 Greatest Internet Memes of 2010 by WilliamMtx
2010 was a huge year for memes. From Sad Keanu, to endless auto-tune remixes, to people making fun of the real-life events of human beings in peril (or going insane) or even just harmless image memes that made all of us smile, here are the 25 greatest internet memes of 2010, how they started, what they mean (what does it mean?) and why they're so funny.
Seeing Tiger Stripes Across Sumatra
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Saucy Christmas cards
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World record as book sells for £7m
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John Lennon- Mind Games
Lennon was born in Liverpool on October 9 1940 and became one of the most famous musicians together with the other three members of the Beatles. After they split he developed a successful solo career.
He was shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the New York apartment building where he and his wife Yoko Ono lived on the night of December 8, 1980.
Chapman, 55, has been in jail since shooting Lennon outside the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan in front of his wife.
If he was alive Lennon would be celebrating his 70th birthday on Saturday.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested by Scotland Yard
"The 39-year-old Australian was held when he attended a central London police station by appointment at 9.30am.
He will appear before a district judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court later today, where his lawyers are expected to fight extradition proceedings.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Officers from the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit have this morning arrested Julian Assange on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape."
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He will appear before a district judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court later today, where his lawyers are expected to fight extradition proceedings.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Officers from the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit have this morning arrested Julian Assange on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape."
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High-speed photography captures moment water balloons explode
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The President's Photographer
First Couple Cuddle by Pete Souza
"A new book from National Geographic takes a behind-the-scenes look at the history and life of presidential photographers."
Photo Essays - TIME/see more
Why That Rich Guy is Being So Nice to You
Psychologists Neils van de Ven, Marcel Zeelenberg and Rik Pieters, all of Tilburg University in The Netherlands, have previously studied the phenomenon of envy and have concluded that it exists in two varieties: benign and malicious."
TIME Healthland/read more
Monday, December 6, 2010
Definitions
"ADULT:
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOR:
A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKENS:
The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF:
Cold storage.
INFLATION:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN:
Grape with sunburn
SECRET:
Something you tell to one person at a time
SKELETON:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE:
The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW:
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
YAWN:
An honest opinion openly expressed."
BigFun.be
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOR:
A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKENS:
The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF:
Cold storage.
INFLATION:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN:
Grape with sunburn
SECRET:
Something you tell to one person at a time
SKELETON:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE:
The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW:
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
YAWN:
An honest opinion openly expressed."
BigFun.be
Chinese scientists wear panda suits to prepare cub for the wild
But look a little closer and you will see the pair are in fact of scientists attempting to ensure the helpless youngster is not affected by human influence.
The workers were pictured in China's Sichuan Province carrying out a physical examination of the four-month-old cub while wearing costumes that would not look out of place at a charity fun run."
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Egypt shark attacks: authorities 'ignored warnings they had caught wrong predator'
"On Sunday, a 70 year-old German woman, was killed as she snorkelled close to the shore in the tourist resort. The attack was the fifth in the area in a week.
Witnesses, including a British mother-of-two, reported in graphic detail how they heard the victim screaming but they could not see the victim because the shark’s thrashing, as well as her blood, made it impossible to see.
The attack brought panic to thousands of British holidaymakers and other tourists enjoying the winter sun. he day before, the authorities had declared the sea safe after capturing two sharks blamed for the earlier attacks.
But a local conservation group smelled a rat. They noticed that photos taken by a diver of the shark responsible for the second attack suggested the wrong one had been caught."
via Telegraph/read more
Witnesses, including a British mother-of-two, reported in graphic detail how they heard the victim screaming but they could not see the victim because the shark’s thrashing, as well as her blood, made it impossible to see.
The attack brought panic to thousands of British holidaymakers and other tourists enjoying the winter sun. he day before, the authorities had declared the sea safe after capturing two sharks blamed for the earlier attacks.
But a local conservation group smelled a rat. They noticed that photos taken by a diver of the shark responsible for the second attack suggested the wrong one had been caught."
via Telegraph/read more
Hide your personal photos from Julian Assange!
"Only someone with the heart of a concrete robot could fail to feel faintly – just faintly – sorry for the American diplomats whose cables were leaked, what with all that private unguarded chit-chat being made public. If the world had an annual end-of-year office party (which, come to think of it, is a brilliant idea), 2010's would be an awkward affair.
Still, what's most surprising about the mass leak isn't the content – it'd have been more astonishing if they'd said Berlusconi was actually rather charming and North Korea is great in bed – but the fact that this kind of thing isn't happening every day. Because in our terrible modern hell, it's possible for absolutely anyone to leave a comprehensive dossier of ultra- sensitive private information about themselves on the back seat of a bus just by misplacing their phone.
The more these devices are capable of, the greater potential for embarrass-ment. What's on your handset? Intimate texts? Embarrassing photos? Raunchy emails? An eye-opening internet history? I just hope you trust the staff down the Orange store next time you're upgrading your phone."
Charlie Brooker | The Guardian/read more
Still, what's most surprising about the mass leak isn't the content – it'd have been more astonishing if they'd said Berlusconi was actually rather charming and North Korea is great in bed – but the fact that this kind of thing isn't happening every day. Because in our terrible modern hell, it's possible for absolutely anyone to leave a comprehensive dossier of ultra- sensitive private information about themselves on the back seat of a bus just by misplacing their phone.
The more these devices are capable of, the greater potential for embarrass-ment. What's on your handset? Intimate texts? Embarrassing photos? Raunchy emails? An eye-opening internet history? I just hope you trust the staff down the Orange store next time you're upgrading your phone."
Charlie Brooker | The Guardian/read more
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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