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The paper plane which flaps. Apparently. I've made it and thrown it across a long room, but of course because it was drifting away from me at high speed it was very difficult to tell. [via]


Old article from The Onion nearly accurate -- biting satire almost completely becomes reality. Seriously Republicans, surely you don't think this guy is the right person to lead your party into another election? Or have I missed something fundamentally important? [via]

Not every photo is as it first seems: "In the July 2004 issue of National Geographic, we published a story about elephant hunting in Tanzania by the Barabaig people. To our profound disappointment, we have learned that we were misled by the photographer and that three of the published photographs do not accurately depict the situation described in the accompanying text."