"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles M. Schulz

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25 Awesome Homeless Guy Signs

Are UFO sightings linked to sci-fi films? - "Newly released documents show that UFO sightings in the UK leapt five-fold in the same year that the alien invader blockbuster Independence Day was released."

Do sexy opera singers sound the swansong for the fat lady? - "We've learned to console ourselves with the thought that the world of the voice is a complete world, capable of representing the profoundest truths of life and love and passion in a purely auditory analogue... it's interesting to compare the cultural conventions that distinguish between what an opera audience is meant to notice and what an audience for, say, television drama is expected to see. No casting director for The Bill or EastEnders would ever ask you to believe that a white man and a black man are identical twins, or that some wobbly-waisted pensioner is actually a young, romantic new boy on the block"

'Burkini' Swimwear Dress Code Dropped - "For men only sessions, all swimmers regardless of religious background had to be covered from navel to knee. For women only sessions, all swimmers needed to be covered from neck to ankle. Challenges arose as soon as the dress code was announced: was it based on modesty in mixed company? If yes, these sessions are single sex so why is dress code necessary? Why must non-Muslims and Muslims who don’t observe religious dress code follow these rules?"

Heritage: from chocolate box to concrete box - "Heritage has democratised. These days, it can mean pretty much anything: a coalmine, the childhood homes of the Beatles (now owned by the National Trust), that little café down the road with an interior straight out of Expresso Bongo. It can even be a building which to many is pig-ugly. Take Robin Hood Gardens. For the past year a battle has been raging in East London over
plans by Tower Hamlets to demolish and redevelop this 1960s Brutalist housing estate. Passions run high. Architects and preservationists are pitted against council and developer. Yet if, 40 years ago, you’d have said that this slab of concrete was heritage you’d have been laughed out of the planning department."

The Exciting World of South Korean Protests : Who Sucks - "Here are a few particularly uniquely interesting/crazy South Korean protest photos we’ve stumbled upon... In May 2007, a group who opposed the a government decision to move a military office to Incheon held a protest in which they ripped apart a live two-month-old piglet. South Korean animal rights groups were understandably outraged by the protest"

The Chrissy Skin Rug at Street Anatomy - "To exorcise a part of my psyche that feels powerless and objectified, I laid fully shaven, covered with Vaseline, and immobilized for hours, in a spread eagle position, while being covered with bucketfuls of gelatinous mold-making material. With the impressions, I made a life-sized, flesh-colored silicone rubber cast of myself as a human skin rug"
Instead of paying for therapy, she gets paid for it. Great deal.

Can I Tap That » Where getting f***** is a good thing - "Inspired by this massive forum thread CanITapThat.com is a site based around the concept of randomly texting someone, and asking them if "you can tap that." Our posts are short, hilarious and true user-submitted stories of fortunate and unfortunate serial tap'in requests. The conversations are conducted via text messaging, or instant messaging and last on average for just about 8 responses back and forth at which time the user finds out if they are getting some or not."

Virus writers obsessed, lacking girlfriends: Expert - "Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of sowing chaos worldwide. That’s the profile of the average computer-virus writer"
What do women without boyfriends do?

Indian subscriber automatically assigned Tamil song ringtone - "Since we were Indian, the Tamil song was automatically assigned to us. My wife and I are both citizens of India, but we are not from the state of Tamil Nadu, nor do we speak the Tamil language. Therefore, the approach of assigning a Tamil song ringtone because we were Indian was shocking, and it demonstrated the ignorance of the SingTel management team that put this promotion together."
"Racial harmony" in Singapore