January 2012
62 posts
Wilma Reading - In My Little Corner Of The World -...
via youtube.com The Beautiful Torres Strait Islander, Aboriginal, Dutch, Australian Jazz singer from Cairns in Far North Queensland with the second of her 3 Rex singles from 1960. This is a great cover of the Anita Bryant hit ‘In My Little Corner Of The World’ and doesn’t exactly show the Jazz, Cabaret and Nightclub singer that made Wilma so famous overseas, touring with...
Bad Day on the road to Nashville
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Scottish Independence Voting Paper Leaked
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Facebook Etiquette 101
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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain - YouTube
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"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of...
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Muhammad Ali shouts breakfast for 100 at McDonalds...
via adaywithouthunger.blogspot.com Global Village Champions Foundation founder Yank Barry and good friend Muhammad Ali, traveled to Jakarta Indonesia on one of their many humanitarian missions to feed hungry people in need. During their stay Muhammad had a craving for a taste of home. Early one morning around 7 am, Muhammad wanted to go to McDonald’s Restaurant. It was approximately...
Bored of Butlins? Try some of these
via infobarrel.com If you are looking for some great destinations for your next vacation, there are a number of dangerous tourist attractions that you may want to avoid. Many of these locations have been made into tourist attractions in order to generate an income for the location, but it might not have been the best idea to turn them into tourist destinations. Here are twelve of the most...
Bitches Man!
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Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (Original...
via youtube.com Been listening to a compilation over and over for the last few days. What a great voice. Posted via email from poobumwee’s posterous | Comment »
LiveBooks- Frustrated Photographer on Vimeo
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Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New...
via theonion.com As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state of Kansas. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of...
American Newspaper Editor: Israel Should Consider...
via gawker.com Andrew Adler, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper serving Atlanta’s Jewish community, devoted his January 13, 2012 column to the thorny problem of the U.S. and Israel’s diverging views on the threat posed by Iran. Basically Israel has three options, he wrote: Strike Hezbollah and Hamas, strike Iran, or “order a hit”...
Lip Synching Senses Working Overtime
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Just another shipwreck
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Homeless Teen, Top Science Student, to Get House |...
via nbcnewyork.com Very inspiring. The family of a Long Island homeless teen recently named one of the top science students in the nation will how have a home to call their own. Samantha Garvey, 17, is among 61 Long Island teens, and 300 nationwide, designated as semi-finalists in the National Intel Science Search. Garvey and her family were offered a rent subsidized three-bedroom home...
Intolerance and Hatred. The Challenge of Our...
via bbc.co.uk The court heard the leaflets showed an image of a wooden mannequin hanging from a noose and quoted Islamic texts. The leaflets said capital punishment was the only way to rid society of homosexuality. They were handed out near the Jaima Mosque on Rosehill Street, Derby, and put through the letterboxes of people’s homes in surrounding streets. The court heard the leaflets...
You have to love the simple things in life
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Vote Britain - YouTube
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Have a Break. The Asian World of Kit Kats...
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Nagasaki 1945 and 2011
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Nagasaki 1945 and 2011
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Hmmmmm
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FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly...
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I love everybody
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I love everybody
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"The Washing Line" - Our Scotland
via ourscotland.ning.com Just down the road from where I grew up. Things have to stay on washing lines for weeks to dry. Posted via email from poobumwee’s posterous | Comment »
Boxed: Fabulous Coffins from UK and Ghana -...
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The only smoking kangaroo, should be on the barbie
via heraldsun.com.au Watch Govt slams kangaroos on ciggie packs The govt has hit out at a major tobacco company that is using the kangaroo on cigarette packages overseas. Play Australian Attorney-General Nicola Roxon says there is nothing the Government can do to stop one of Australia’s most treasured national icons being used to flog cigarettes in Europe. An image of a kangaroo and...
Ernie Celebrates Rubber Duckie's Birthday!
via pregnancy.org Today is Rubber Duckie’s Birthday! Aside from Bert, Rubber Ducky has been Ernie’s faithful companion for many years. We wanted to find out more about this interesting fellow so we delved a bit into his background and found some very interesting facts: Did you know that: • Ernie’s rubber duck was “born” in 1970. • The Rubber Ducky song hit...
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog...
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BBC News - Web addicts have brain changes,...
via bbc.co.uk Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the way their brains were wired up. They say the discovery, published in Plos One, could lead to new treatments for addictive behaviour. Internet addiction is a clinical disorder marked by...
BBC News - Web addicts have brain changes,...
via bbc.co.uk Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the way their brains were wired up. They say the discovery, published in Plos One, could lead to new treatments for addictive behaviour. Internet addiction is a clinical disorder marked by...
The Art of the Toilet Paper Roll | Brain Pickings
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Australia Day 2012: "Barbie Girl" (Sam Kekovich v...
via youtube.com This is what it is like everyone. Party on Mateys. Aussie Aussie Aussie! Posted via email from poobumwee’s posterous | Comment »
Japanese Department Store May Want to Look Up the...
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Is Obama an illegal alien? Republicans try new...
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Jimmy's Favorite Commercials - Jog Strap - YouTube
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Dear Steve Jobs. Fuck Off
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Dear Steve Jobs. Fuck Off
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How Desperate Are You? | UrlyBits
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Take a pill and your feminism will be cured by the...
via about-face.org From the way women are portrayed as being as easily programmed as robots, to the stereotypical descriptions of feminists as non-shaving, combat-boot wearing man-haters, to the idea that all feminists have a repressed Barbie inside of them just waiting to burst out into a Malibu dream house. It’s impossible to ignore that as the woman is “progressing,” she loses more...
Scottish campaigners set out to revive hutting in...
via guardian.co.uk Gerry Loose calls it “the long view”. Standing a few yards from his moss-carpeted wooden hut in a Stirlingshire forest, Loose gestures towards the hill-line of the Campsie Fells, their peaks and flanks dusted with snow. The air is crisp, sharpened by the winter chill. The hut is Loose’s retreat from urban Glasgow. Built about 80 years ago, its weathered...
Wind turbines can't cope with UK weather as 3 more...
via dailymail.co.uk The impact of the devastating weather which has swept the country is shown by the state of these wind turbines - which couldn’t withstand the strength of the gales. The huge blades - 15ft long - flew off three turbines including one on the aptly-named Windmill Lane in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The firm which made the turbines in the Hepworth and Upper Cumberworth...
Scared of the Republican Nut Jobs? Vote for the...
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My Unwelcome Stranger: Master of St Trinians,...
via deniswright.blogspot.com I don’t know all that much about him myself, but I do know about what or who he created - those smart, wicked, inventive girls of St Trinians who delighted adults and kids in films with antics that became the stuff of legend. I don’t even know as much about his cartoons as I should, but Ronald Searle’s enduring fame rests on them. What I can...
Watch how you use your hands.
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