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My birthday was yesterday. My son claims to have the humor gene in the family so he picked out the cards. Punchline for the card, “Remember only one wish per customer.”

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Mr. Chávez’s reintroduction of the coin invokes a period when Venezuela enjoyed large foreign investment and remarkable price stability. A common response then to the question “how are you?” was “en la lucha por la locha,” an expression revolving around the coin, meaning roughly “struggling to make a buck.” This quote from the NY Times [...]

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Trot ON, Hortensia! This is the iJoyRide, a fitness machine that thinks it’s a horse. It’s got four speeds (Warm Up, Taking It Easy, Getting Serious and Pump It Up) and 30 minutes on it will burn the same amount of calories as a 30-min run or bike ride. Wannabe mustang riders could probably play [...]

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Colin Powell is credited with coming up the “Pottery Barn” Rule of foreign policy, i.e., “You break it, you bought it”. Read the rest of it at imao.us, The “Hulk Smash” Rule

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Link to Day By Day Cartoon 01/02/07 Been there…Done that! Although I think the constant talking to oneself is more related to the number of years you have been married. The scary part is that if you pause to search for the right word, your spouse will wake up and finish your sentence.

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  Temperature measurement using modern scientific thermometers and temperature scales goes back at least as far as the early 18th century, when Gabriel Fahrenheit adapted a thermometer (switching to mercury) and a scale both developed by Ole Christensen Rømer. Fahrenheit’s scale is still in use, alongside the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale. Source: Temperature [...]

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Gizmodo reader/potential vampire Shaun just popped this interesting graph in our email this morning, comparing the price of HP ink to other various fluids, some bodily in nature. He calculates that a $30 HP #45 black ink cartridge gives you 42ml, pricing out to $0.71/ml. Meanwhile, blood apparently costs $200 for 500ml from the Red [...]

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The Best College Football Play Ever submitted by soapdev 1 day 3 minutes ago (via http://youtube.com/watch?v=woz…) Best Ending to College Football Every. Nuff Said.

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Expert: 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted | TwitchGuru An expert in computer, Internet and video game addiction believes that 40 percent of the more than 6 million subscribers suffer from a clinical addiction to the game and wants warning labels on the game boxes similar to the Surgeon General’s warnings on cigarettes. [...]

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Dog Pack Kills Alligator In FloridaAt times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the ‘apex predator’ in its natural eco-system, can still fall victim to implemented ‘team work’ strategy, made possible [...]

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