When they give you the answers, just shut your mouth. Some kids are just bad at tests

It sounds like every student’s dream — turning over an exam paper and finding the answers on the back.
 

Africa obviously has their share of pyromaniacs
A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.

 By geeks, for geeks. Long live the extreme geeks
This is the nerdiest surfboard ever. The “Shredder” surfboard was designed by a computer programmer named Mike Sheldrake after he decided to replace his old board.

Wow! And just when we thought we couldn’t get any lazier
Most coffee tables are just meant to harmonize the mood and overall decor of your living room, right? But, the Coffee Table from the house of Retro-Tech changes the notion.
 

 
The waiter knows in advance where the dogs are sitting
Love is after all blind. So is it bad to go on a blind date – where you don’t know whom you are meeting? Dark dating as an idea, which is a hot favorite among Londoner’s this hunting season.
“It is very interesting. Something quite different the [...]

Very soon all of our dogs will begin to look like Tom Cruise
A California company is planning a string of online auctions next month to clone five dogs, with the bidding to start at $100,000. Scientists consider dogs among the most difficult animals to clone because they have an unusual reproductive biology, more [...]

Paranoid about people reading your email?  You should be…
In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies [...]

Aiming for the lake…
Extreme snowboarders are always looking for that epic jump, those divine moments of floating through the air where time and space seem to meld into an indescribable adrenaline rush. The “Quiksilver Showdown Over the City” is a spectacular winter event in Canada.  This premier end of season event is the largest contest-style [...]

Probably not useful because people will just want to play with it
Here is a very cool design for taking a small round table and turning it into a large round table. Very ingenious, and very slick. More videos after the jump.

 Hmmm, perhaps all of their closets have finally filled up
A “Frank About Women” online survey found that US women are losing enthusiam for shopping and are spending less.
Few women—just 15% of those surveyed—said they found inspiration and ideas when shopping in a store. Only 16% said shopping provided an escape from the world and 12% [...]