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The Incredible Tree-Climbing Goats of Morocco

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:02:12 GMT

clipped by: unbelievers

Before you jump to conclusions: no, these were not created by a bored geek in Photoshop. Amazingly, these uncanny animals are actually real: they climb the Argan trees of Morocco in search of food, which is otherwise sparse in the region. Over time they have become not only able to climb trees but downright adept at the art - the traipse across trees with a sure-footedness that is hard to imagine from a hoofed animal.

The droppings of the goats contain the kernels of the seeds they consume which are, strangely enough, used by locals to press and grind into oil. Even more disturbingly: this oil has a number of uses including culinary (yes, people eat it) and cosmetic (yes, they also smear it on themselves). You might want to skip over the versions of these products sold by local farmers for the somewhat cleaner mass-produced varieties. For a quarter-liter bottle of this goat-digested kernel-oil you can expect to pay from 15 to 50 dollars.

Tags: goat, poop

A Jewish commentary on the Torah

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:02:28 GMT

clipped by: yewtree

Clip Source: www.slate.com

I have always been a proud Jew, but never a terribly observant one. Several weeks ago, I made a rare visit to synagogue for a cousin's bat mitzvah and, as usual, found myself confused (and bored) by a Hebrew service I couldn't understand. During the second hour of what would be a ceremony of NFL-game-plus-overtime-length, I picked up the Torah in the pew-back, opened it at random, and started reading (the English translation, that is).

Tags: torah

Download West Wing Episodes

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:27:53 GMT

clipped by: dsteinerx7

Clip Source: www.americanchronicle.com

Download West Wing TV Show Online

West Wing TV Show is very popular tv show. Debuting September 22, 1999, NBC's multi-award-winning The West Wing was America's first truly successful political drama series. Producer Aaron Sorkin had allegedly created the property to make fuller use of the White House interior sets built for his 1999 theatrical film, The American President. Whatever the case, the weekly, hour-long series disproved the long-held theory that the American TV viewing public was bored stiff by fictional political intrigue. The series was largely set during the administration of U.S. president Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (Martin Sheen), a Liberal Democrat (and a devout Catholic) from New Hampshire.

Tags: download west wing episodes, watch west wing episodes, west wing episodes, west wing episode guide

Bored by temporarily off-line websites? - The Coral Content Distribution Network

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:21:58 GMT

clipped by: Rasmus
clipper's remarks: It works surprisingly fine!

Clip Source: coralcdn.org

Are you tired of clicking on some link from a web portal, only to find that the website is temporarily off-line because thousands or millions of other users are also trying to access it? Does your network have a really low-bandwidth connection, such that everyone, even accessing the same web pages, suffers from slow downloads? Have you ever run a website, only to find that suddenly you get hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server and possibly causing high monthly bills? If so, CoralCDN might be your free solution for these problems!

Taking advantage of CoralCDN is simple. Just append

.nyud.net

to the hostname of any URL, and your request for that URL is handled by Coral!

Coral is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers.

a peer-to-peer DNS layer transparently redirects browsers to participating caching proxies, which in turn cooperate to minimize load on the source web server.

Tags: browsing, internet, web proxies, low-bandwidth connection

LEGACY GEARS

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:13:15 GMT

clipped by: Pben54

Clip Source: legacywoodworking.com

Gears, .25X Gear Reduction Set

(part no. L25GEARS)

Specs:

Spiral Pitches:
1/2", 3/4", 1", 1 1/8", 1 1/4", 1 1/2" and 1 7/8" per rotation.

Indexing:
24 Positions (15 degree spacing)

$199.00

Are you bored of making plain pen and pencil sets? The Legacy .25 gear set will bring a new twist to your pen making projects. Ranging from ½ to 1 7/8 the Legacy .25 gears are yours for only $199.00!

Amazon.com: "Know Your Failure"

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:29:54 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: * "A total waste of time and money. If you are thinking about buying this book, you'd get more enjoyment in tossing the money out the window of a car at 60 mph and watching it flutter in the wind rather than be tortured by the vacuous content of this work. Worst of the worst books I have ever read."

* "Actually full disclosure my (very liberal) sister bought it as a gag birthday gift. ..One of the most damning things I can say about any book is that I found myself day dreaming while I was reading it; I was that bored. I found it difficult be read because Speaker Pelosi has perfected the art of using a bunch of words but not actually saying anything."

* "I guess the real message to America's daughters is "Don't grow up to be an angry, bitter, botoxed anti-American liberal."

* "I just finished reading this book. It was very hard to get through. I found it poorly written as well. With respect to what she wrote, I find none of it believable."

Clip Source: mikesamerica.blogspot.com

Nancy Pelosi's Book Bomb

Speaker Pelosi's new book "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters" is tanking in the non fiction book market.

Just 2,737 copies sold thus far despite the full media blitz by the Speaker to boost sales.

Meanwhile, anti-Obama books are all the rage:

#1 on the Amazon list: "Obama Nation"
#3 "The Case Against Barack Obama"

#6 Dick Morris's "Fleeced"

Recent comments left at the Amazon site describing the book may explain why sales are so flat:

"If this book doesn't wake up Americans about the shallowness of the people in power, nothing will. Read this and tell me how it's possible this person could wield the political power she does. Might be time to migrate to New Zealand."

"This book was extremely helpful. I am serious it makes a good door stop. It could also be used to be placed underneath your AC when its not evenly aligned."

Don't worry Nancy. You can always force your Union buddies to buy this book by the crate and give out as souvenirs.

Tags: "know your power", nancy pelosi's book, "obama nation", "the case against barack obama", "fleeced"

GraphJam

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:00:17 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: graphjam.com

GraphJam is the unholy love child of bored office workers, music and pop culture.

The mashup of graphs and music did not originate here, but our inspiration comes from our friends at JamPhat.com/rap/. Our name is a homage to that site. (Some of the images on this site are used with permission from JamPhat.)

Clip Source: graphjam.com

Tags: humor slide-presentation charts graphs visualizati

World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:12:06 GMT

clipped by: Catshade

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."

The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."

"Jokes have varied over the years, with some taking the question and answer format while others are witty proverbs or riddles,"

"What they all share however, is a willingness to deal with taboos and a degree of rebellion. Modern puns, Essex girl jokes and toilet humor can all be traced back to the very earliest jokes identified in this research."

Tags: joke, humor, culture, humour, pun, history

k

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:29:11 GMT

clipped by: hjc123

Clip Source: esl-lab.com

Girl: Dad, I'm bored. Can I go to a movie today?

Dad: A movie today? Well, I don't know.

Girl: Jeff always takes me to a movie.

Dad: Well, I know your uncle Jeff always takes you, but what movie would you like to see today Aubrey?

Girl: Muppets in Space.

Dad: Muppets in Space.Let me look at the newspaper. Okay. Ah, here it is. Muppets in Space that starts in the afternoon at 2:45. Well should we take mommy with us?

Girl: Yeah.

Dad: Okay, we have to wait for mommy because she's at a meeting right now.

Girl: Okay.

Dad: Alright. And what should we do after we go see the movie?

Girl: Umm . . . go on a little walk.

Dad: Go on a walk. Where would you like to go on a walk to? Would you like to go down to the beach or through the park?

Girl: To the beach.

Dad: To the beach. Well that sounds great. And then maybe we can go out to eat tonight. Does that sound okay?

Girl: Yeah [alright].

Attention spam

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:36:52 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: learning something new every day...

Clip Source: www.urbandictionary.com

attention spam

Any material or fodder which tends to destroy the attention span.

MTV spews pure attention spam all day, in particular by cutting cameras every 3 seconds.

attention spam

Noun; e-mails sent by people that are bored, and want people to reply to, so that they would be being payed attention to.

Girl: urgh, this guy keeps sending all of these pointless e-mails.
Girl2: it's just attention spam, if you ignore it it's just going to pile up.

attention spam

A condition resulting in a failure to process basic facts or comprehend common knowledge, due largely to having a mind full of useless information.

Kali's numerous typos were a result of her suffering from attention spam.

Tags: attention, spam, words, urban, dictionary

d

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:43:18 GMT

clipped by: pixiedust59

Clip Source: blog.myspace.com

Thursday, July 06, 2006

THIS IS WHAT BOREDOM IS DOING TO ME!!...I NEED A JOB
Current mood: bored
Category: Life

During this past school year have you...

8 Everyday Words With X-Rated Origins

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:37:41 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: X-factor!

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

8 Everyday Words With X-Rated Origins

#1.

Fundamental

What It Means Now:

Basic, or pertaining to, the foundation.

The Dirty History:

Fundamental refers to the Latin, "Fundamentum," which meant ass

#2.

Manatee

A seal's fat cousin from the Caribbean.

"Manati," a Carib word for boobs

#3.

Mastodon

It's an ancestor of the elephant, like the wooly mammoth, except for one difference, and the reason for its sexy name

"Mastodon" is Greek for "Nipple-tooth,"

#4.

Avocado

It's a fruit from Central and South America, and the main ingredient in guacamole.

Sure enough, the word for Avocado comes from the Nahuatl (The language of the Aztecs) "ahuacatl" which means testicle, because of its shape

#5.

Venus Flytrap

A carnivorous plant that eats flies.

The botanists that named it saw the flytrap and realized it looked like a vagina, which is why they added Venus (The Greek goddess of love and sex) to its name.

#6.

Seminar

A group of experts speaking to a usually bored audience

#7.

Orchid

#8.

Hysteria

Tags: x-factor, words, english, vocabulary, sex

9 Pieces of Unusually Creative Office Furniture: Airplanes, Cradles, Houses, and More

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:43:57 GMT

clipped by: bloowell

Clip Source: weburbanist.com

Typical office furniture is gray, drab, and uncomfortable. Seeing row after row of cubicles, all paired with the same black office chair and occupied by the same bored looking colleague, day after day, can really get to you.

These unusually creative office furniture pieces could help you perk up your office - or at least give you something interesting to look at while you’re pretending that you’re not reading WebUrbanist at work.

You can go from working at a desk to working low to the ground with a laptop table in no time flat.

This awesomely unique chair would be at home in nearly any room.

Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic has done extensive research on the effects of low-speed walking while working

Or, if you’re adventurous and handy with a saw, try making your own.

If you happen to have large piles of cash just waiting to be spent, the DC6 Cowling Desk

It looks sort of like a weird steampunk dentist chair,

While it most likely won’t fit into your office, the Conference Bike

committee.

Tags: furniture

Phyllis Diller notes found on shit house walls !

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:02:03 GMT

clipped by: jt3600
clipper's remarks: these jokes suggest that they were one hit wonders !

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.

a different take on boredom

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:04:14 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: the-urban-monk.livejournal.com

But after a while - sometimes hours, sometimes days - the boredom becomes a friend. The mental noise keeps playing and replaying, but I’m too bored to pay any more attention to it. And, as the clutter of thoughts becomes irrelevant, so too does the self, or what Joshu Sasaki Roshi calls the “I am” self. There is no loss of awareness, of consciousness. There is still the sensation of the body sitting still, or walking, and there is still the sound of the mind’s chattering - but there is no self attached to any of it. No observer, no observed. No mystery, nothing hidden, no question, no answer, every question its own answer. In every moment, birth, life and death, but no one to be born, live or die. No ending of pain, but no suffering arising from pain. No ending of pleasure, but no attachment to pleasure, only an abiding joy in it, in everything, the joy of awakening, of arriving where we have always been.

Tags: awareness, zen, boredom