Gunther? Rachel? Chandler? Mike? Gang’s all here!

What does one get for the eccentric billionaire who has it all? A gold-plated Xbox One from famed retailer Harrods of London is a start, and it turns out that Harrods is selling just that in its London store right now. Of course, that kind of bespoke ...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, ‘cuz everyone was dead.

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The New York Times reports tonight that Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, builder of terrifying walking robots DARPA-related projects like WildCat/Cheetah, Atlas, Petman and Big Dog. Andy Rubin has moved over from leading Android to directing ...

DUBLIN, OH—After accounting for the cost of tuition, four years of lost earning potential, and the minimal increase in salary an undergraduate degree provides, 30-year-old local man Patrick Moorhouse has, at this point in his life, earned $11 more t...

PALO ALTO, CA—Shedding light on how hockey players convey information without an advanced verbal language, a study published this week by Stanford biologists has found that players may communicate by banging their sticks against wooden boards surrou...

DON’T STOP BELIEVING.

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What was thought to be a stomach bug was actually a “stone baby.”

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An 82-year-old Colombian woman has been unknowingly carrying a fetus inside her abdomen for 40 years, reported NTD Television.

Doctors initially thought her stomach pain was due to a bug, but scans revealed that she suffered from a very rare condition in which a woman carries a lithopedion, or a "stone baby." A lithopedion occurs when an unborn child develops outside the womb.

The Colombian woman's fetus developed in her abdomen, which is not a "viable place" for it to grow. She will now undergo a surgery to remove the lithopedion.

A calcified fetus that was removed from 92-year-old Chinese woman, Huang Yijun.

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Dr. Kemer Ramirez of Bogota's Tunjuelito Hospital first suspected the woman had gallstones, but scans showed a tumor in her abdomen. He told NTD, "This happens because the fetus does not develop in the uterus because it has moved to another place." He explained that the body generated defense mechanisms and "calcified" the fetus.

Basically, the fetus gets to an advanced stage and when it is too large for the woman's body to absorb it, the remains of the unborn child turn to stone to protect her body from being infected by its decomposing tissue, explained this NBC News report. However, without other complications, a woman can live a normal life as her body doesn't recognize the stone baby as a foreign mass.

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Borderlands 2 is attempting the Herculean task of exciting people about QR codes. With its new LootTheWorld mobile app, Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms and, er, Aliens: Colonial Marine) is turning any barcode or QR square into in-game ...

The FIDO Alliance is on a roll: it already has support from heavyweights like Google and Lenovo in its quest to eliminate password-based sign-ins, and it's now bringing Microsoft into the fold. The software pioneer is taking a seat at the Alliance's ...

Just shh. No talking.

"You're from Joisey? Is that how you say it? Joisey?"

No, that's how you said it.

Chris Christie—Newark, NJ

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"Why aren't you tan?"

Because I'm not a cast member of Jersey Shore.

Bruce Springsteen—Long Branch, NJ

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"Where's your Jersey accent?"

I fed it to the dawg.

Jon Bon Jovi—Sayerville, NJ

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"Isn't your entire state a dump?"

No, we just tell people that so they won't come here and drive too slow in the left lane.

Joe Jonas—Wycoff, NJ

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BRB, tossing my iPhone into a large, empty crevasse.

Great news!

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A delicious dinner:

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What channel?

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Lessons in failure and perseverance from America’s Funniest Videos.

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Start saving your vacation days because you are going to need them.

The Pitcairn Islands

The Pitcairn Islands are a small archipelago located in the South Pacific. The islands, which are inhabited by about 50 people, are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Many of the Islanders are descendants of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty; their families have been there since the United States was writing its constitution.

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This is what is waiting for you there

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To be a truly great animal photobomber you must first be an artist. After that, obviously, you have to be an animal of some kind. These are the animals who ‘bombed the best in 2013.

The 'Ruined Your Selfie'

Ruining a bunny's selfie is one of the lowest things you can do, morally, but we are not here to judge, we are here to behold, and this is a pretty well-ruined bunny selfie.

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The Inception Photobomb

The first fish is probably laughing with you, but the background fish takes it one level deeper into full-blown mockery.

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The Botched 'Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls' Scenario

"I guess just draw my upper half like the upper half of one of your French girls and then crop my dumb younger brother out?"

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The 'Ruined Your Headshot'

In case you're wondering why none of the canine talent agencies called you back about a role in some ponderous doggy biopic, the answer is in the lower left of your headshot.

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Good times, great oldies.

The longest wait:

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Dad jokes at their finest:

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Say no to drugs:

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Hot to make a hot new wardrobe:

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Phone Keypad

I use one of those old phones where you type with numbers—for example, to type "Y", you press 9 three times. Some words have consecutive letters on the same number. When they do, you have to pause between letters, making those words annoying to type. What English word has the most consecutive letters on the same key?

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We can answer that question with the following headache-inducing shell command, which finds all words in a given list which use the same key a bunch of times in a row:

cat wordlist.txt | perl -pe 's/^(.*)\$/\L\$& \U\$&/g' | tr 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' '2223334445556667777888999' | grep -P "(.)\1\1\1\1\1"

The winner, according to this script, is nonmonogamous, which requires you to type seven consecutive letters (nonmono) with the "6" key.[1]It's actually tied with nonmonotonic. These no doubt both lose to more obscure words which weren't in the wordlists I used.

Phone Keyboard Sentences

It's rare for a word to have all its letters on the same key; the longest common ones are only a few letters.[2]Like "tutu". Nevertheless, using only these words, we can write a high def MMO on TV, a phrase whose words use only one number key each.

There are plenty of other phrases like this, although some of them are a bit of a stretch:

Typing issues like this aren't limited to old phone keyboards. For any text input system, you can find phrases which are weird to type.

QWERTY Keyboards

It's a well-known piece of trivia among word geeks that "stewardesses" is the longest common word you can type on a QWERTY keyboard using only the left hand.

In fact, it's possible to write entire sentences with just the left hand. For example, try typing the words We reserved seats at a secret Starcraft fest. Weird, huh?

Let's take a look at a few more sentences—written with the help of some even messier shell commands and Python scripts[3]I constructed these sentences by searching text logs for sentence fragments that fit a particular constraint, then randomly connecting those groups together using a technique called Markov chaining. You can see the code I used here.—which follow various constraints:

Left hand only

Right hand only

Home row only

Top row only

And lastly, if anyone wants to know why you're not more active on social media, you only need the top row to explain that you're ...

And it looks SO AWESOME . Please be good please be good please be good.

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The parents of Reddit have spoken.

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Dozens of vehicles were involved in a massive crash Sunday on the snow-covered Highway 41/45 near Germantown, Wisconsin. At least one person was killed and several others injured in the accident that shut down the highway for hours.

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By Dinosaur Comics .

Ryan North has been making constrained comic strips (where the basic dinosaur artwork stays the same and only the dialogue changes) since 2003. You can follow his comics at Dinosaur Comics, or in our new ComicsFeed syndication series.

Shakshuka is a Middle Eastern and North African dish that combines eggs, tomatoes, and spices to create the perfect meal for any season and time of day.

Shakshuka is a delicious combination of eggs, tomatoes, and spices popular across the Middle East and North Africa.

Shakshuka comes in many shapes and sizes. The dish is likely of Tunisian or Yemini origin, and the name is thought to originate from either Arabic or Amazigh (Berber) for "mixture."

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Some say it’s like the Mexican breakfast dish huevos rancheros — but it’s better.

The Israeli version (largely popularized by Tunisian Jews) usually involves eggs poached in spicy tomato sauce, with optional feta on top. In Egypt, Shakshuka is cooked as more of an egg scramble, and often sold in leaky sandwiches in the streets. In Jordanian, Yemini, Moroccan, Iraqi restaurants, and beyond, Shakshuka always comes a little different: The eggs can be firm or "luzzy", the sauce can be thick or thin, the vegetables can vary, and the dish can be made vegetarian, dairy, or meat. (Sorry, vegans.) Any way, it's always delicious.

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Shakshuka is really, really easy to make.

Viola.

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Here's the basics of what you do:

1. Fry up some onions and garlic with salt and pepper in a deep pan.
(Optional: Spice it up with cumin, paprika, or zaatar.)
2. Add chopped tomatoes.
(Bonus: Include some seasonal vegetables like eggplant, Zucchini, peppers, or cauliflower.)
3. Add in a can of diced tomatoes.
(Here's where you could also add another protein like meet or fish.)
4. Heat and then simmer.
5. Crack in as many eggs as you can fit. (Poach or mix, as you like.)
6. Cover and simmer for about 15 mins.
(Cheese can be added at any point from here.)
7. Sprinkle with parsley and... Enjoy!
8. Repeat.

Recipes here, here, here, here, and here. And even more, here.

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World, meet Duncan Lou Who, a 4-month-old Boxer puppy born with severely deformed rear legs. Rather than let him suffer in pain, his rear legs were amputated. He doesn’t seem to mind at all!

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Sometimes just being you is enough to be thankful. And sometimes not being these people is even better.

You are not tied upside down on a rope.

Blood rush to the head? Um, no, thank you.

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You are not the person who wasted their money on perfectly good hot dogs.

"I guess just hot dog buns for dinner is OK," said no one ever.

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You are not this man without a computer chair.

Or his friend.

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You are not in this tree right now.

Bed/desk >>> tree

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Rise and shine, the early bird catches the worm, and other things like that.

You only have to set one alarm.

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But you usually wake up before it even goes off.

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You love the silence and peace found only in the morning.

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Birds chirping? The best.

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A security camera from inside a gas station in Diamond, Ill., appears to have captured a home being completely destroyed during Sunday’s tornado outbreak that left as many as 8 people dead across the Midwest.

GIF showing the moment the house was hit:

Security footage captured the full event:

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We're no stranger to digital billboards -- Engadget made its own big-screen debut in Times Square back in 2011 -- but British Airways' latest endeavor is unlike any we've seen before. According to The Drum, the new advertisement, installed front and center at London's Piccadilly Circus, uses "custom-built surveillance technology" to track incoming BA aircraft, prompting the screen to display a child pointing directly at the plane as it passes overhead. The adjacent text offers up the flight number and its origin or destination, along with a custom message, such as the lowest fare for that route or the current weather where that plane is headed. The airline's new #lookup campaign is marketing at its best -- see for yourself in the video after the break.

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What do you mean there’s no such place as Further South Dakota?!

Erm, sooo, yeah. We really wish we could tell you this is the worst attempt. It's not even close.

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What's the state capital of Squaresies?

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Little known fact: No one actually knows what that state in the middle is.

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When all else fails, draw pretty pictures.

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This is actually genius.

During a September game between Phillipine basketball teams the San Mig Coffee Mixers and the Barako Bull, a member of the Bull had a fast break off the jump ball.

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But then he turned around and acted like he was just setting up his offense.

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And as everyone backed away, the player turned around for the easiest layup of his life.

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Watch the video here:

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