Disposable Soles: classy substitute for foot wear

Here's a design for people who refuse to accept the tyranny of the shoe. Sure, footwear is often considered one of the great milestones of civilization, but the Disposable Sole boils it down to the basics. It's a sole-shaped sticky pad you step on and then that's it — you're good to go! Well, sort of. I mean, the Disposable Sole may be a fine replacement for house slippers, but it's probably not the best choice for any sort of irregular terrain outdoors. At least it goes on and comes off easy, right?
The Disposable Sole is a concept by Jun-Soo Choi.
Via Yanko Design

It’s a Limorat!

Rats are various medium sized rodents. "True rats" are members of the genus Rattus, the most important of which to humans are the black rat, Rattus rattus, and the brown rat, R. norvegicus. Many members of other rodent genera and families are also called rats and share many characteristics with true rats. A rat has an average life span of 2-3 years.

Specially bred rats have been kept as pets at least since the late 19th century. Rats are sociable, intelligent animals and can be trained to use a litter box, come when called, and perform a variety of tricks. Pet rats are typically of variants of the species R. Norvegicus, or Brown rat, but Black rats and Giant pouched rats are also known to be kept.

Pet rats behave differently than their wild relatives depending on how many generations they have been removed, and when acquired from reliable sources, they do not pose any more health risk than other, more common pets...

Have you heard........................

By now you heard there's a huge problem with the Russian space station, the computers failed!
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The whole computer system went down!

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Pretty scary huh!

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But they're hoping they can fix the problem and call tech support when they fly over India.

Don't know what to get your pet for "CHRISTMAS"

Get your pet this great-lookin' Cone Collar this year.

It’ll block him/her from all that disgusting licking and stuff......

and, say, it's fashionable for kitty, too.

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Oh, and this old girl, here, pissed! Oh, yeah.

237 dogs removed from Texas woman's home

Animal control officers removed 237 dogs from the home of a 70-year-old woman who said she had been breeding the animals, officials said.
Kelli Copeland, manager of the city's Animal Care Services department, said it took about six hours Tuesday to gather up all the dogs, which were taken to a city kennel. Most of the dogs were Pomeranians, but there were also Yorkshire terriers, two standard poodles and several other breeds. Copeland said they appeared to be suffering from the close quarters.

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"They had plenty of food and plenty of water but were not living in healthy conditions," Copeland said. "Many were covered in feces and urine. I think she slowly accumulated them to where they were more than she could handle."One of the dogs was euthanized because of its poor condition. The woman claimed that dog had recently wandered to the house. "The homeowner is a very nice lady; I think she loved her dogs," Copeland said.
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A German man smokes through a Smoking Hole in a restaurant wall

A man smokes through a "Smoking Point" in a restaurant wall in Goslar, Germany.

The holes have been made after a smoking ban in restaurants in Lower Saxony.

Man's skin turns dark blue

Blue man seeks acceptance
His name is Paul Karason, and he's blue. It's not makeup or paint.

Who says animals don't know how to romance?

Two otters holding hands.

Hilarious Pepsi Commercial

Thank God It's Not Friday?

Court says baby can't be named 'Friday'
What's in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who forbade a couple from naming their child like the character in "Robinson Crusoe."
"They thought that it recalled the figure of a savage, thus creating a sense of inferiority and failing to guarantee the boy the necessary decorum," the couple's lawyer, Paola Rossi, said Wednesday.
The couple are considering appealing the decision to Italy's highest court, she said.
Mara and Roberto Germano, whose son was born on Sept. 3, 2006, had the boy named and baptized Venerdi, Italian for Friday.
Even though the boy was not born on a Friday — it was Sunday — his parents liked the name, said Rossi.
"They wanted an unusual name, something original, and it did not seem like a shameful name," Rossi said in a telephone interview. "We think it calls to mind the day of the week rather than the novel's character."
Since city hall officials are obliged by law to report odd names, the matter ended up before judges in Genoa, the northern Italian city where the couple live.
Last month, an appeals court stated that Friday falls into the category of the "ridiculous or shameful" names that are barred by law, as it recalled the native servant in Daniel Defoe's novel.
The judges wrote that naming somebody Friday would bar him from "serene interpersonal relationships" and would turn the boy into the "laughing stock of his group," according to a report in La Repubblica this week.
According to the daily, the judges also said that, as a day of the week, Friday raises a sentiment of sadness and penitence, when not being associated with bad luck outright.
Rossi said the court, which upheld a previous ruling made in June, also ordered the boy to be named Gregorio after the saint on whose day he was born.