Archive for April, 2009

Police In Denmark Stops Bicyclists And Hugs Them

Doesn’t Denmark have the nicest cops? They stop cyclists and give them free helmets and hugs to show they care about their safety.

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Dickens URL

Convert URLs into wonderful works by Charles Dickens. The fear of cryptic URLs, long or short, is now no longer a problem. Enter an ugly URL and you will be faced with beautiful words of Charles Dickens.

The Dickens URL for The Presurfer would be:

http://dickensurl.com/754e/He_had_a_cane_he_had_an_eyeglass_he_had_a_snuffbox_he_had_rings _he_had_wristbands_he_had_everything_but_any_touch_of_nature_he_was _not_like_youth_he_was_not_like_age_he_was_not_like_anything_in_the _world_but_a_model_of_deportment”>

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The 5 Deadliest Pandemics In History

The outbreak of swine flu, first in Mexico then cases all over the world, has gotten a lot of people worried. Despite the existence of scarier diseases caused by exotic viruses like Hantavirus and Ebola, influenza still reigns as the number one infectious killer in modern times.

Unlike regular seasonal epidemics of the flu, there are also rare but deadly pandemics, i.e. cases of influenza that spread on a worldwide scale and infect a large proportion of the human population.
Here’s a summary of the 5 deadliest pandemics in history.

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