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My momma is a bear.


cute pictures of puppies with captions

My momma is a bear. My dad was a very brave dog.

musta happened wen momma wuz gittin a cheezburger.

Picture by: dunno source. Caption by: maryjesse via Loldog Builder

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Top 10 Ironic Ads From History [Consumer Culture] Remember when you could buy barbiturates for the baby? Cover your house with asbestos? Or get heroin from the doctor? Okay, probably not, but thanks to the immortal beauty of advertising, you…
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June Wrap-Up

Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
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The Confidential Upgrade Twenty five years ago, when Steve W. worked for a military subcontractor, he’d often roll his eyes when meetings were denoted “CONFIDENTIAL”. It’s not that he didn’t take confidentiality seriously,…
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National Blog Posting Month

Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
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Re: Fwd: Your Subject Line Stinks - 4 Subject Line Tips

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In a world of clogged inboxes and the wide-spread use of portable devices, conciseness and quality content are of the utmost importance when sending email.

An effective subject line is a…
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CREEPY


nancy pelosi and rahm emanuel

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Some photos are better left unpublished

(Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel)

Picture by: dunno source. Caption by: Sharmie via Poster Builder

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Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers The hot new idea among people who think about “journalism,” and the sanctity thereof: let’s ban linking, on the internet! Let’s also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let’s…
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3 Solved Math Mysteries (and 2 That Still Plague Us) Mathematics has fascinated the human race nearly as long as our existence. Some of the coincidences between numbers and their applications are incredibly neat, and some of the most deceptively…
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Hands-on with the BlackBerry Tour 9630 The Blackberry Tour 9630 is slated for a July 12th release on Verizon and rumored to hit Sprint a week later…

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How Cheaper Garbage Bags Can End Up Costing You More [Trash As Trash Can]

Shoppers tangle with decisions of cost vs. quality all the time, but in the case of garbage bags, the blog The Simple Dollar argues, quality and thriftiness go hand in hand.

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Qwertial Aphasia If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes.
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Worst Tech Commercial Ever, Probably If Harry McCracken, who has been writing about personal computers for 29 years, says this Microsoft spot is the worst technology commercial ever, he’s probably right. Warning: It’s…
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The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America

By Alex Abella

If you think the Internet came out of Silicon Valley, that NASA planned the first satellite to orbit Earth, or that IBM created the modern computer—think again. Each one of these…
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The Quick 10: 10 Absinthe Drinkers

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I’m having a 1920s-themed party for my birthday in a few weeks and was all excited to serve old fashioned 1920s-style drinks. I thought it would be a perfect excuse to try out absinthe,…