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Language Log » Homophonicide

unreliablewitness:

From the imagation of Graham Roumieu in his wonderful book, Bigfoot, I Not Dead.  This is probably the most entertaining book that I will read all year.

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mikehudack:

hilker:

hippieflavor:

“If the walls of the Big Dig House could talk, they’d tell you that it’s comprised of 600,000 lbs of recycled materials that were rescued from the Big Dig highway project in Boston. Inhabitat last reported on the striking modern residence in 2006 when it was still in its planning stages, and it has since come a long way from being a pile of rubble and recycled materials. We may now behold what stands today — an elegant and modern private home in Lexington, MA with an exciting backstory.” (via Inhabitat » Big Dig House: Recycled Residence Reaches Completion)

not only is this house made of recycled materials, but it’s a house i’d actually like to live in.

Same here.

ditto.

Stoned wallabies make crop circles Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said.

(via bbc) (via science)

Junkyard workers enshrine tree that grew to lift a car - Boing Boing (via Rachel Maddow)

James of Japan Probe reports that a Japanese hackberry tree, which sprouted from a seed in a junkyard 25 years ago, has managed to lift a car in the air. “Workers at the junkyard have built a small fence around the tree, and are protecting it as it continues to grow,” he writes. Video here.

xkcd - A Webcomic - Apocalypse

i lol’d all over myself.

“Dushi is the title of the solo show of Florentijn Hofman at Galerie West in The Hague (The Netherlands). He supersized stuffed animals so that they complete lose their function and feeling.”

(via pilnick) (via today and tomorrow)

(via tristn)

frightening, in a fun and scary way

“The United States is the world’s new facial hair super power, having captured twelve world championship titles out of eighteen categories plus overall at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska on May 23, 2009. Possessing home field advantage, the USA was able to dethrone Germany which had dominated this competition since its inception.” (via WBMC)

“Though men have no doubt been engaged in low-level facial-hair competition since the first Neanderthal learned to scrape hair from his cheeks with a flinty arrowhead, the WBMC can be traced to the Verband Deutscher Bartclubs (Assn. of German Beard Clubs), which held the first contest in 1990 in the Black Forest village of Hofen-Enz. From 1995 on, the contest has taken place every two years, attracting clubs from around the world.” (via LA Times)

i can’t remember where i found this