Snake-eating spider

Cairns, Australia man Ant Hadleigh snapped this golden orb spider attempting to eat a brown tree snake in his Freshwater backyard. He estimated the tree snake to be around half a metre long and was alive for “an hour or more” after being caught in the spider’s web, before finally succumbing to the crafty arachnid’s venom.

Snake-eating spider

Picture: Ant Hadleigh. Source: The Cairns Post.

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Teens play chicken with subway train

Here is a scary YouTube video, a group of reckless teens play chicken with an oncoming subway train. Five kids jumped onto the tracks at the No. 3 line’s Kingston Avenue station, risking their lives with each passing moment. Most of them quickly climbed back onto the platform, but two stayed on the tracks until the lights of an approaching train were clearly visible.

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Feeding the homeless

You can just buy a homeless guy something to eat, or you can try this…

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“Minnesota nice” defined

A Dairy Queen in MN teaches us what people mean when they say “Minnesota Nice.” Oh, fer Pete’s sake…
MN nice

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The magic cube keyboard

The Celluon Virtual Keyboard

The Celluon Virtual Keyboard uses a light projection of a full-sized QWERTY computer keyboard on almost any surface. Used with MAC Laptop, PDA’s and Smart Phones, the Virtual Keyboard provides a practical way to send e-mails, word documents processing and spreadsheet tasks, enabling users to leave laptops and computers at home. VKB’s adaptable technology studies the user’s finger movements to interpret and record keystrokes. Buy it here.
The Celluon Virtual Keyboard

For Levon

Levon Helm

Aug. 14, 2009 - Levon Helm and the Levon Helm band perform during the Heros of Woodstock concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., marking the 40th anniversary of the original 1969 Woodstock concert.
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Levon Helm performs “The Weight” from The Last Waltz. The legendary 71-year-old drummer-singer of The Band, is in “the final stages of his battle with cancer,” according to a note posted on his Web site by his wife and daughter. **FACEBOOK FAN PAGE UPDATE: Mr Helm “passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates”

Buy this song here. Leave a message of support on his Facebook page here.

Idiot

Idiot steals gas from cop car, posts picture on Facebook, and goes directly to jail.

From Gizmodo: This is Michael Baker. Michael is 20 years old, lives in Kentucky, and likes The Bucket List on Facebook. I know these things because Michael has not activated his Facebook privacy settings, which is something that’s recommended in most cases but absolutely essential if you’re going to post pictures of yourself stealing gas from a cop car on your wall.

The theft occurred last month, according to The Smoking Gun; that’s when Baker raised his middle finger at his girlfriend’s camera while slurping up gas from a Jenkins City police cruiser. He was arraigned yesterday in Letcher County District Court.

Baker has since taken down the incriminating photo, as well as a few updates he had apparently left along the way (sample: “yea lol i went too [sic] jail over facebook.”). Which, yes, lol indeed.

Dyslexic are teople poo

dyslexics are people too bumper sticker

Buy a “dyslexic are teople poo” t-shirt.

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1956 Baseball Team Mascots

1956 Baseball Team Mascots
This art of baseball team mascots was spotted by Bethany Heck of the blog Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae and comes from the 1956 edition of the book Inside Baseball for Little Leaguers.

Earth from space

Satellite footage reminding us that we are just floating on a rock through space.


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