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  • Snowpocalypse

    January 1, 2011 / No Comments

    via

    gizmodo.com

    We just got hit with back to back blizzards. Yesterday’s and today’s mornings were spend snowblowing four foot drifts off my driveway and sidewalks. Our banks are getting high, but thankfully we don’t need machinery like this, yet.

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  • What Is The Most Efficient Checkout Line?

    December 22, 2010 / No Comments

    via consumerist.com

    This is an interesting video. I always thought I was full of bad luck and always picked out the slowest checkout line. Turns out with a little math, you can figure out that you are far more likely to pick a slow line.

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  • The History of Video Games by Jonathan Mann

    December 16, 2010 / No Comments

    via laughingsquid.com

    This video is full of awesome, and brings back so many memories of my childhood. It is song #709 in Jonathan Mann’s “Song A Day” series.

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  • Metrodome roof collapse

    December 12, 2010 / No Comments

    via youtube.com

    Everybody else is posting the video of the Metrodome roof collapsing, so I might as well too. It’s a pretty amazing video. I remember them having problems with too much snow on the dome back in the 80s, but I don’t think it was ever this bad. We will see if they can get it fix by next Monday night.

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  • Spelling Matters

    December 7, 2010 / No Comments

    via derrenbrown.co.uk

    I am sure everybody has received that email that says spelling really doesn’t matter, as long and the first and last letter of each word is right. Then it has a paragraph that you can totally read, but a lot of the words are misspelled. I have always believed that it was true, but is it? The video above explains the truth.

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  • US Map Showing The TV Series Best Representing Each State

    November 12, 2010 / No Comments

    via laughingsquid.com

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  • What A Glorious Space To Dwell

    October 26, 2010 / No Comments

    via mentalfloss.com

    I love songs like this. Who knows how valid many of the facts are, but I bet they are mostly true. I think I vaguely remember Duck Hunt being a two player game, but totally forgot until now.

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  • Minnesota and Alfred Hitchcock

    October 18, 2010 / No Comments

    via i.imgur.com

    I am never going to look at my home state in the same way.

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  • Lego House

    September 5, 2010 / No Comments

    via youtube.com

    This puts the Lego houses I made as a kid to shame.

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