Posted on Wednesday, 30th September 2009 by Interloper
Unless you live in Canada, chances are that you won’t have seen most of the following public servive announcements. Special thanks to a mystery Canadian for helping me to put this together.
1. Don’t You Put It In Your Mouth
A group of singing puppets provide Canada’s youth with some sage advice.
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Posted on Tuesday, 29th September 2009 by Interloper
An undine is a type of water elemental that features in European folklore, as well as appearing in the alchemical treatises of Paracelsus. The word undine comes from the Latin word unda, which means “a wave”.
Although the term can be applied to virtually any type of water spirit, undines are generally depicted as women with [...]
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Posted on Monday, 28th September 2009 by Interloper
The word pyrophoric is used to describe materials that will ignite spontaneously below room temperature. These are used commercially in items that create sparks, such as cigarette lighters, but due to their volatile nature they must be handled in laboratories containing an atmosphere of argon, or sometimes nitrogen.
Most substances aren’t pyrophoric unless powdered or thinly [...]
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Posted on Monday, 28th September 2009 by Interloper
I’m sitting here sipping my first coffee of the week and I’m thinking about how my brain feels pretty much empty at the start of the week as it waits to be filled with a whole new slew of beens, happenings and maybe… just occasionally, a vanishment or two.
So even as I empty my mug [...]
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Posted on Friday, 25th September 2009 by Interloper
A haul of dinosaur fossils unearthed in north-eastern China has provided the oldest ever evidence of feathers, prompting some to claim that it is the final, definitive proof that birds are actually the modern day relatives of the so-called “terrible lizards”.
Previously the oldest evidence for feathered dinosaurs came in the form of the Archaeopteryx, which [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 24th September 2009 by Interloper
Only three episodes into the new series it has been revealed that Heather Locklear will return to Melrose Place in order to reprise her role as manipulative (and sexy) advertising executive, Amanda Woodward.
It’s currently unknown how many episodes she’s set to star in, but the move is hoped to improve the show’s ailing ratings, which [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 24th September 2009 by Interloper
An Indian father living in West Bengal recently gambled away his teenaged daughter in a card game.
The man, Ismail, placed his 18-year-old daughter “on the table” (that’d be figuratively, I hope) after losing all of his money. Somewhat unsurprisingly he went on to lose again and the villanous victor, named Mustafa, eagerly claimed his nubile [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Interloper
This morning Sydney residents awoke to a blood-red sky as the worst dust storm in at least 70 years blanketed the city. This seemed like fun when I first checked out the pictures, but it wasn’t all exciting, as explained by Wheezle in the Shrine forums: “Believe me, you get over it once you’ve inhaled [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Interloper
Sometime around 2005 the entire internet seemed to become a Jessica Alba fansite overnight. In that year, Alba had roles both as sexy cowgirl Nancy Callahan in Sin City, as well as assuming the mantle of the Invisible Woman.
Four years on, however, and Alba’s position has arguably been usurped by newcomer, Megan Fox. Fox has [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd September 2009 by Interloper
The Indian Government is planning to reintroduce cheetahs into the wild almost 50 years after they first became extinct in the country.
Originally home to Asiatic Cheetahs, a species that is now limited to Iran and thought to number fewer than 100 in total, India is one of 15 different countries to have “lost” their entire [...]
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