Hospital removes ‘asparagus-sized’ eel from man’s bottom.

Beauty pageant officials in China demanded a minimum nipple spacing for contestants. [via The Beheld]

Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago.

How the mere presence of a mobile phone harms face-to-face conversations.

Brain study reveals the roots of chocolate temptations.

The rotten egg gas leaking from sewer pipes and costing billions of dollars worldwide in odour control may soon be far less of a problem thanks to a magic mix of chemicals, called Cloevis.

In the euro zone, only Greece has government debt approaching the Japanese level.

Stealing magic has become a commonplace crime. Teller, a man of infinite delicacy and deceit, decided to do something about it.

It’s 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today’s top players assess his legacy?

11 Historical Geniuses and Their Possible Mental Disorders. [Thanks Tim]

List of English contractions and List of camouflage patterns. [via List of lists on Wikipedia]

The Velvet Underground and Nico, Press Release.

Louis CK just hanging out.

This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that she received by e-mail. Her e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1). The address was deciphered by the postal employees and delivered successfully.

The soul-brother handshake. [Survival City Guide]

every day the same again | September 25th, 2012