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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Iconic Paris Quotes - Famous sayings from novels, poetry and films

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Aah, Paris. We've rounded up the most memorable bon mots that immortalize Gay Paree, from poems and famous film lines, to the words of great men and women.

Mythbusters' Adam Savage Sings "I Will Survive" as Gollum (video)

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Your argument has never been less relevant. And no, I have no idea why Neil Gaiman is involved.

Badass Action Hero One-Liners

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The one-liner is arguably the most important accessory in an action hero's arsenal. Here are some of the best verbal death blows. Ever.

John Lennon Was a Reagan-Loving Conservative

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Seaman goes on to talk of Lennon's embarrassment over the youthful resentment that pegged the singer as a liberal, not a conservative. "I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist ... He enjoyed really provoking my uncle ... Maybe he was being provocative ... but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism."

Did A Shark Just Jump Over My Head?

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A surfer in florida was casually surfing like it was any other day and out of sheer luck a spectator caught a shark jumping over his head. Pretty crazy huh? Check out the video.

Fun Facts About The 4th of July [Infographic]

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It's quite interesting to see $111 Million is spent on popsicles alone on this day and did you know that July is known as National Hot Dog Month?

Bob Solo's Masterpiece (PIC)

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A very strange painter with a very detailed painting

Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 10 More Things You Didn't Know

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Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto opens up about even more of the lesser-known details that went into developing this legendary game. Some of them might surprise you.

Is America's plight so terrible that it would lurch this far?

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Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly short, depending on the closeness of one's acquaintance with sanity. For all that, there is a quantifiable chance – about one in 20 on Betfair – that we will awake on 7 November 2012 to the news that Michele Bachmann is to be the 45th President of the United States.

Man Vs. Wild RPG [Video]

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A turn-based survival adventure.

The Math of the Rubik’s Cube

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Last August, 30 years after the Rubik's cube first appeared, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a cube got, it could be solved in no more than 20 moves. Although the researchers used some clever tricks to avoid evaluating all 43 quintillion of the cube's possible starting positions, their proof still relied on the equivalent of 35 years' worth of number crunching on a good modern computer.

Chihuahua Thinks She's a Sheepdog (Video)

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Nancy the shepherding Chihuahua is creating a stir in the farming world by rounding up flocks with all the skill of a seasoned Border Collie.

Poll Compares Political Sins: Americans Are More Concerned About Tax Cheating Than Prostitution

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The June PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey was conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service following former Congressman Anthony Weiner's resignation announcement and released amidst a new Congressional Ethics Panel investigation of sexual harassment by Congressman Alcee Hastings of Florida. Strong majorities of Americans believe that both financial and sexual misconduct by elected officials constitute serious moral problems. However, for elected officials, significantly more Americans believe that financial misconduct is a very serious moral problem than believe sexual misconduct is a very serious moral problem.

Should Abortion Be Illegal Once a Heartbeat Is Detectable?

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Across the country, Republicans and Democrats are wrangling over proposed changes to state abortion laws. On Tuesday, the Ohio House of Representatives voted on a measure that has the power to transform the state's — and the nation's — abortion dialogue. In a landmark move, the House voted 54 to 43 to ban abortions after [...]

Stabbing burglars 'will be legal'

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Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says a householder who knifes a burglar won't have committed a criminal offence under plans to clarify the law on self-defence.

Anonymous Hits Universal Music And Viacom

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Let the hackathon continue with Anonymous now in the driver's seat after LulzSec called it quits. This time the target is not the small country of Anguilla, but the major media companies, Viacom and Universal Music.

Anger a Crow and It Will Never Forget Your Face : Discovery News

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Mess with a crow, and it will remember your face for over five years, research shows.

10 Disney Movies That Tried to Destroy America Before 'Cars 2'

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Disney animation has been shelling out movies that have conspired to destroy this great country of ours for more than seventy years now.

You may not want to eat bacon after watching this. Pig Farm cruelty [VIDEO]

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Be warned: It's graphic. A new undercover video showing gruesome conditions in which pigs are kept at an Iowa factory farm (emphasis on the "factory") has hit the web, courtesy of the advocacy group Mercy for Animals (MFA). Representatives of MFA will officially present the graphic footage Wednesday during several press conferences.

Chart of the Day: The Idiocy of GOP Cut-and-Grow

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States that boosted spending saw decreasing unemployment and increasing economic growth. Those who cut back saw the opposite

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