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A shopkeeper in Spain has found the face of Homer Simpson on a 1 Euro coin! [via]
Jose Martinez, a shop owner in Aviles, Spain was counting his coins when he saw the bulging eyes looking right back at him instead of the usual portrait of King Juan Carlos. With this likely being the [...]
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I was waiting for The Big Picture to post photos from the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and they finally have. Go ahead and have a look at all of the wonderful imagery that is coming out of Beijing right now. It seems as if though the entire city is [...]
This is the craziest thing I’ve heard all day. White supremacists are voting (or at least backing) Barack Obama for the Presidential bid because they believe that his Presidential win will spark a white uprising in America.
Barack Obama is part African-American.
These white nationalists believe that once white people see a black President in office, they [...]
Google has launched a dedicated Beijing 2008 Olympic Games website to help you keep track of stats and events.
Google-owned YouTube also has a YouTube page dedicated to various videos of the Olympic games and events. The YouTube channel is a collection of a variety of sources including, Reuters, The Associated Press, The New York Times, [...]
In about 8 hours or so (from the time of this post), the 2008 Olympics hosted by Beijing will commence opening ceremonies, marking the beginning of a little more than 2 weeks of international competition!
Opening ceremonies will begin in Beijing, China at 8PM on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08). This means that if you want to [...]
Photo: AP Photo/Ric Francis
You may have heard about the moderate 5.4 magnitude earthquake that hit 35 miles east of LA on Tuesday morning. It wasn’t “the big one”, but it was violent enough to cause minor disruption and give a lot of people in downtown LA quite a shock.
Raw video is coming in from the [...]
Did you know that 16 stories below the streets of Manhattan, there are crews from the New York City MTA Capital Construction division digging what will soon be a tunnel that connects the LIRR to Grand Central Station?
Crews operate tunnel boring machines (TBM) that can dig through the ground at about 60 feet per day.
The [...]