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10 Geeky Wedding Photos

Free online games "with a spooky edge. We've got ghosties, beasties, sleepy vampir-ies, tentacle monsters and, naturally, Garfield!" At Jay is Games.

* And, in a decidedly unspooky note, we have Free Rice, a vocabulary testing game that adjusts itself to your level of knowledge. That's not the good part, though; for every word you get right, 10 grains of rice will be donated to a hungry person by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). So click away, and the combined might of JIG just may do some significant good.

This one is weird. The words quickly ramped up, and it wasn't much fun but I felt I had to push on to give somebody enough rice for a meal...

Iconic Moments of the 20th Century:
This series of photographs "was enacted by pensioners in a home for the elderly in Glasgow. Aged volunteers pose in their everyday outfits and in the vicinity of their Home to re-create scenes from well-known historic photographs" --mefi.

Like many of the mefi commenters, I wish there were more of them. And some idea of how these came to be. They're instantly recognizable.

Gallery of fantastic creatures.

Stuff You Didn’t Know is a list of trivia, much of it word-related at hedge’s house. And I didn't know most of these. Such as...

-- The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life”

-- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

-- The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead”.

More at the link.

What Is The Best Tasting Jell-O Shot? at My Science Project.

25 Unexpectedly Useful Websites for the Uncommonly Curious. Some of them look useful.

10 Tips For Learning Astrology by Chris Brennan of the tongue-twisting Apotelesmatics Astrology Blog. It's a modest title for a comprehensive post full of resources and links.

Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants

Rafflesia arnoldii: this parasitic plant develops the world's largest bloom that can grow over three feet across. The flower is a fleshy color, with spots that make it look like a teenager's acne-ridden skin. It smells bad and has a hole in the center that holds six or seven quarts of water. The plant has no leaves, stems, or roots.

There's something really creepy about a plant that's like a fungus with a canteen.