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Today is TV Dinner Day, which is a fancy way of saying that the first TV dinner was sold by Swanson 55 years ago today. Fortunately we arrived late enough on the scene that we weren’t raised on those seminal ready-made meals, but looking over some of the flavors of yore, we suddenly feel like [...]

A video of a dolphin rapping (well, okay, a person in a dolphin suit rapping, but you’ll need to suspend that disbelief from here on out) came to our attention earlier this week. We quickly realized that over the years we’ve seen many videos of animals more-or-less-rapping on the Web, and that there certainly must [...]

Something that hadn’t dawned on us until just now: with stable, wage-earning jobs becoming ever-more scarce, will we suddenly see a sharp increase in dubious and unfounded lawsuits? If so, you’d better get creative because there’s no telling who’ll take you to court over an issue so trifling you that didn’t even know it was [...]

So today is the last day of New York Fashion Week, and from what we’ve gathered there have been some really cool hat designs showcased on the runways. Today also happens to be Love Your Pet Day (seriously), so we’ve decided to merge our love of pets and our trend-following fashion obsession into to this [...]

Though it took us a long time to understand that citrus fruits are meant to be peeled – those were some dark years of intense Vitamin C deficiency – we’ve since found ourselves surrounded by discarded peels after many a clementine binge. What to do with all those pretty peels?
We tried breeding new hybrid species [...]

The manly men over at Asylum inform concerned readers and trashy food-eaters of some especially dangerous foods in this list of 15 Delicacies That Might Kill You. Strikingly, the list goes against the entrenched tradition of proving masculine superiority by vacuuming the most disgusting foods as though they were little more than baby carrots. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

Continuing on the turkey theme from this morning’s icy post, the icy Alaskan queen Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey on camera today, only to chitchat about nothing while it was unceremoniously slaughtered in the background:

Understandably, people with feelings like Change.org’s animal rights blogger Stephanie Ernst are horrified by the video’s apparent disregard for animal suffering, [...]

The shimmering, delicate surface of crusty ice on pristine New York City puddles this morning constitutes, as far as I know, the first ice of the 2008 Winter (exactly one month before it technically begins). with that in mind, the passionate people at IceSculptureWorld.com have a U.S.-centric list of the Top 200 Ice Sculpture Companies [...]