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Former Beatles member and avid gardener George Harrison spent his last years living in Los Angeles, and died in 2001. In 2004 a tree was planted in his memory in Griffith park near the observatory. At the base of the tree a plaque was laid in stone. The plaque reads "In memory of a great...

You might think this belongs in the Tech Shop, and it may very well should be. But I'm putting it here because of its comedic value. There is a new Chrome plugin that will play clown music every time you read about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. It's absolutely hilarious that a military march...

Diving Turtle's other historic dives at the Players Championships

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Thirty-eight million gallons of treated, ready-to-drink water will be flushed into the Columbia River after a teenager peed in a city reservoir. The city admits that there's no public health risk from a few drops of pee, but it's more of a service issue, says Water Bureau Administrator David...

This weekend, 40,000 people are flying to Austin, Texas for an annual technology and entertainment conference called South by Southwest, or SXSW for short. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year. This year the Music Festival part of it will last from March 11-16 (largest...

It's a seemingly normal enough looking house, sitting along Wade Avenue in a typical residential neighborhood in Raleigh, NC. But it's not what it seems. If you look close, you'll see no driveway, no garage, no walkway to the front door. There are no lights, the windows are blacked out, and...

Watch how fast "Baby, it's cold outside," turns into, "Baby, it's not that bad out there," when a guy has commitment issues, in what is sure to become an instant holiday classic. Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong in a wonderful performance. Merry Christmas. SNL: Baby It's Cold Outside

Take a close look at this photo of Morgan Freeman. It's a pretty good photo, except that it's not. It's a finger painting done on an iPad. UK artist Kyle Lambert has created some very impressive digital art using his iPhone and iPad, but this one raises the bar to a whole new level...

Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that the may have died from Bird Flu or some other disease. A bird pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief...

Learn French from Ms. Bella French, an actual French-Canadian from Montreal. I really do like the Internet.

Ten, twenty years of training to sing like this. But she didn't have that. Not any of it. No formal training whatsoever. And certainly not ten or twenty years of it, because she's only nine years old. She learned to sing this way by watching YouTube videos. And her intonation and phrasing are...

SHAKE Having a bad day? Just watch this.

One thing you constantly hear from insurance companies, police, and the media is that 'speed kills.' Well, it turns out, it doesn't. Many have suspected or know this for a while now, but this video is just brilliant at how it thoroughly debunks the 'speed kills' myth, and shows why the myth...

According to the Agence France-Presse, "at least" one million cockroaches escaped a nursery in Jiangsu, China where they were being farmed for traditional medicine applications like cancer and inflammation treatments. The bugs got away because of an "unknown perpetrator" who tampered with...

Squatters right, says student toilet designer | Video | Reuters.com Finally, someone gets it. A toilet specifically designed to let you take a dump in precisely the manner in which nature intended.

I'll never look at Buttered Toast Jesus the same way again. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Holy S***!" Should make you think twice the next time you scoop it up, put in it a plastic bag, and send it the landfill. It's not a coincidence that "dog" spelled backwards is... well, you...

Chris Hadfield: NASA Astronaut, Commander of Expedition 35, International Space Station, Musician. Canadian.

This is really quite funny. :D

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