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Hard Poetry? What’s that?

This video saves a lot of time.

To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to remain within: that is the question:
Whether ’tis better for a cat to suffer
The cuffs and buffets of inclement weather
That Nature rains on those who roam abroad,
Or take a nap upon a scrap of carpet,
And so by dozing melt the solid hours
That clog the clock’s bright gears [...]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper.

How to fly first class on an economy-class ticket.

Will Houdini, the master of escape, escape from the grave after having been buried for the last 80 years?

Why is it so difficult to find out photographer’s name and the location of a stock photo bundled with Windows XP? And what’s with all the secrecy?

100 ways to say Not the brightest… A couple of favourites: “Only has one oar in the water” and “Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down”. Okay, one more: “An intellect rivaled only by garden tools”.

This football field in Mexico shows how ingenious people can be when the space they have available is not quite adequate to do things properly.