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Best Ghost Photos Ever Taken

Posted by JediLlama 521 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://paranormal.about.com)
They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts. Faking ghost photos through double exposure and in-the-lab trickery has been around as long as photography itself; and today, computer graphics programs can easily and convincingly create ghost images. But these photos are generally thought to be untouched, genuine portraits of the unexplained.
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Kill The Apostrophe

Posted by horuskol 262 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://www.killtheapostrophe.com)
This website is for those who want to remove the apostrophe from the English language, on the basis that it serves only to annoy those who know how it is supposed to be used and to confuse those who dont.
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6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations

Posted by JediLlama 268 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://www.cracked.com)
There seem to be two kinds of people in the world: those who don't understand cats, and those who think cats are kind of douchebags.

Unfortunately for cat lovers, science has kind of come down on the side of that second group. Research has revealed that a lot of the quirky and even cute things your kitty does are actually signs that your cat is kind of a dick.

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There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)

Posted by horuskol 275 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://sivers.org)
When the studio owner heard I was going to Berklee, he said, “I graduated from Berklee, and taught there for a few years, too. I'll bet I can teach you two years' of theory and arranging in only a few lessons. I suspect you can graduate in two years if you understand there's no speed limit...”
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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened

Posted by horuskol 282 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://www.wired.com)
I’m driving East out of San Francisco on I-80, fleeing my life under the cover of dusk. Having come to the interstate by a circuitous route, full of quick turns and double backs, I’m reasonably sure that no one is following me. I keep checking the rearview mirror anyway. From this point on, there’s no such thing as sure. Being too sure will get me caught.
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Bus slogan generator

Posted by horuskol 284 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://ruletheweb.co.uk)
Make your own Atheist bus slogan using this neat generator
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List of cats with fraudulent diplomas

Posted by JediLlama 298 days ago in Miscellaneous (http://en.wikipedia.org)
In several cases, pet animals (most often cats) have successfully been "enrolled" in suspected diploma mills in order to investigate or demonstrate the fraudulent nature of the degrees issued by those institutions. Several such cases have received extensive media attention, and at least one cat's degree helped lead to a successful fraud prosecution against the institution that issued the degree.
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