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[S.A.M.]

BYU animation is awesome!

These are as cool as paper bag disguises:

Animators in disguise

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[Digit]

Liquid blood found in mammoth carcass. South Korean company looks into cloning.

[Tally M.]

Matt Smith is officially leaving Doctor Who.

[UffishThought]

Noooooo!

[Tally M.]

This'll be the first Doctor turn over that I'll be a Whovian for.

[Digit]

Northern Colorado residents want to form new state.

[Indefinite Integral]

Northern Colorado residents want to form new state.

But 51 stars won't fit very nicely on a flag...

[Digit]

Dunkin' Donuts to offer gluten free donuts and muffins.

[S.A.M.]

Northern Colorado residents want to form new state.

But 51 stars won't fit very nicely on a flag...

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/New ... d=19404611

Earlier flags

[Squirrel]

That was awesome! Ninja flag!

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Man gets head stuck in traffic pylon.


AND THERE'S A VIDEO.

[vorpal blade]

I didn't realize Squirrel was so brave and dangerous. http://www.kpho.com/story/22674737/squi ... yard-brawl

[Squirrel]

Yep! I'm just cool like that. Adult squirrels are immune to rattlesnake venom, so they can hold their own in a snake fight. Baby squirrels aren't immune to the venom, so mother squirrels go searching for shed snake skins so they can gnaw bits off of the rattle, and glue it in their tail with their spit- so when a snake comes by, the squirrel rattles its tail and the snake is completely fooled!

Edit: it's California ground squirrels I'm talking about.

[Portia]

Yep! I'm just cool like that. Adult squirrels are immune to rattlesnake venom, so they can hold their own in a snake fight. Baby squirrels aren't immune to the venom, so mother squirrels go searching for shed snake skins so they can gnaw bits off of the rattle, and glue it in their tail with their spit- so when a snake comes by, the squirrel rattles its tail and the snake is completely fooled! :-)

This is the craziest thing I've ever heard. Is it real???

[Squirrel]

Yeah, it's real. I saw it on some documentary on tv.. I'll see if I can find it.

I found it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWP1qQZuSoM Discovery Channel's LIFE
So, I was mistaken about the squirrel rattling her tail- she just shakes it.

[S.A.M.]

http://www.today.com/travel/gps-devices ... 6C10467554

Pack a paper map (yes, they still exist) and “don't turn off your internal navigation system when you turn on your gadget,” said NBC News.com technology reporter Bob Sullivan. If a GPS sends you the wrong way, “your sense of direction could be the difference between driving 5 or 50 miles out of your way.”

[Katya]

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/30/197390707 ... more-women

"What we're in effect doing is training children to see that women and girls are less important than men and boys. We're training them to perceive that women take up only 17 percent of the space in the world."

[Violet]

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/30/197390707 ... more-women

"What we're in effect doing is training children to see that women and girls are less important than men and boys. We're training them to perceive that women take up only 17 percent of the space in the world."

There are so many good quotes in this one.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -year.html

Best picture I've seen all day.

[Yarjka]

Umm, I'll just leave this here. (*Warning: graphic description of fecal matter)

As a former janitor, I've dealt with bathroom vandalism - it wasn't fun, but I cleaned it up and moved on (that's what rubber gloves and mops are for).