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Quirky news links for the week of February 8th

An original gnomer repents but probably too little too late in terms of the hobby “Thinking outside the box” is the most hated office jargon phrase A woman received a bequest of 3000 watering cans – 2999 more than the rest of have America’s longest married couple now on twitter dispensing advice(they got married sometime [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of February 1

A bizarre new take on tourism unveiled in London New word of the day – vegangelical (i.e. rabid vegans) Could you get a posthumous book deal for balancing stuff on your head?  Something to strive for isn’t it? Feral beagles are terrorizing Long Island (yes, they’re the  ones with the short legs…)

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Quirky news links for the week of January 4th

Religious potatoes are the new hot trend on eBay – be careful how you cut that spud! Another oddly compelling synthesized science music video from Symphony of  Science on Youtube (check out Glorious Dawn first for the best example) Can’t get enough of those dang ‘prove you’re human’ Captcha’s?  How about a Dream Captcha You [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of November 30th

Google is going old-fashioned and offering to send a free real postcard for you anywhere in the US – might be a good time to remember that the post office considers all mail to the military to be local in terms of price so go cheer up a soldier! Peace on Earth apparently ends at [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of November 23rd

Bulgaria claims to be in contact with aliens Recent studies say men are better at shopping than women but women are better with technology Prosthetic for a stork – makes the turtles on coasters seem easy… Baby echidnas – wow, even cuter than baby hedgehogs but the stuffed toy market is still focused on the [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of November 16th

Apparently there is such a thing as too much cake… You can now play games while conducting NASA science (really) at Be A Martian – is the 21st century cool, or what? (via Neatorama) Santa is claiming ‘at risk’ status for H1N1 but maybe instead of a shot he just needs a suit made out [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of November 9th

A new word, Plutophile, probably the first and only planet(oid) to have a fan club The Vatican weighs in favorably on aliens – maybe not so surprising considering the declining flocks here on Earth You can now buy a pop-up book of the Hadron Collider (the one that some said would end the world) ’cause [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of November 2nd

Could anything be sadder than a bald hedgehog?  Yes, the news that the universe is actually beige?!!! Alternate history can always be fun to contemplate but a U.S./British landwar in Canada?  Yikes. Sheep become victims of religious controversy in Ireland – does Amnesty International have a sheep division? The odd history of the word ‘guy’ [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of October 26th

There’s a hole in the moon and it just might lead to a tunnel (maybe even alien treasure?) Pretty soon you’re going to have to remember a password just to access your brain – new word of the day, neurosecurity Too bad, it’s just a mock-up but still fun to imagine the two most annoying [...]

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Quirky news links for the week of October 19th

They really mean it when they say to turn off your cell phone before the plane takes off… Test your knowledge of Muppet Show trivia – how much of this did you know? A garage-based museum of toilet seats is now officially the wackiest museum in America (I don’t think they knew about the barbed [...]

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