You are in an enclosed school yard staring down a group of angry and determined five year olds. No one has any weapons. How many do you think you could take in a fight? Find your answer through a quiz from Just Say Hi. Some other questions you could get an answer to: How much is your dead body worth? What are your chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse? And how many germs live on your keyboard?
(For the record, Spot Cool Stuff is perhaps a little wimpy and could defeat 12 five year olds.)
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We suspect that you’ve never wondered how to quantify the exact side effects of sword swallowing. What is surprising is that some one else has. And that they’ve written a paper on the subject. (Conclusion: “Sword swallowers run a higher risk of injury when they are distracted . . .”). Improbable Research — and its print publication The Annals of Improbable Research — catalog scientific research being conducted into areas that would wouldn’t think any self-respecting scientist would go near. The site navigation is a little confusion to us; if you are just browsing you’d do well to start with the posts about the lg Nobel (a sort of unofficial Nobel prize for improbable research). And please, do not read this site and sword swallow at the same time.
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The New Shelton Wet/Dry is like a photographic non sequitur and we sure do like pizza. The site’s tag line, What Matter Who’s Speaking, gives a sense of this photo blog’s surrealist nature. Put on some Pink Floyd, take some stash from that coffee can in the fridge (if that’s your thing), and click through the captivating visual images on this site. We were especially mesmerized by the shadow art made from shining a spotlight on strategically sculpted trash and by the offerings in the photo illusion category.
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Tasty Insect Recipes, from Iowa State University’s Department of Entomology, is a tiny website but large in its quirkiness — get recipes for cooking up your everyday insects. Options include banana worm bread, chocolate chirpie chip cookies and mealworm fried rice.
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Vodka, babushkas, authoritarian leaders — these are what come to mind when most people think of Russia. English Russia sets out to break that stereotype by showing that “something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface.” Granted, several of these “cool” things are done by babushkas drinking vodka. Nevertheless, the photos and blog posts on English Russia show a side of the world’s largest country more interesting, quirky, depressing and hilarious than you could possibly imagine.
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