Mirror and Cache index - Lifestyle: Arts and culture
1976 votes | submitted 2010-03-15 16:22:22 by Bukowsky | 928 comments
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He now presents a stunning
counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution
while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.
213 votes | submitted 2010-03-15 05:47:32 by surfster | 28 comments
AN obscure art exhibition featuring live birds “playing” electric guitars has become a runaway
hit and internet sensation. Although it has hardly been advertised or reviewed, the exhibition has
been drawing lengthy queues since a short video of the birds took YouTube by storm.
362 votes | submitted 2010-03-14 15:18:50 by NuclearMissile | 90 comments
From the guy hacking up phlegm to the woman giving herself a facial, the top 10 worst airplane
passengers:
353 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 20:03:04 by Winkleman | 96 comments
Why do we move our clocks forward in March? Learn about the origins and why we change the time.
1103 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 11:01:30 by offon | 144 comments
From 10 to 24 March 2010, IKEA develops an interesting event in four important metro stations in
Paris. Furniture collections are currently displayed in high-traffic spots, giving the potential
customers a chance to interact with the brand by checking out the products.
361 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 21:07:00 by swansontom | 53 comments
Sure we love them... But, aren't there, like, a LOT of them? A lot of them seem pretty.... similar?
Surely we could do without a lot of them. Here are some that really need to stop publishing beacuse
they are either A) Evil or B) Superfluous. Here's the definitive list.
403 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 05:19:33 by shroomtime | 46 comments
Some of Banksy's strangest work: hot dogs, salamis and other reconstituted meat products fill the
aquariums at Banksy's pop-up show in Leake Street, London, to accompany the UK release of Exit
Through the Gift Shop. The exhibition is now closed, and it is not known when we may next get a peep
at the pets.
198 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 22:41:08 by Crnii | 40 comments
FCUK is throwing down the gauntlet for all the guys on Chatroulette. It's simple: convince a girl
you meet on Chatroulette to go on a date and French Connection will deck you out for the event.
251 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:04:38 by Lederhosed | 25 comments
Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels has banned 119 commonly-used "newsspeak" words and phrases at
Chicago-based WGN-AM. NPR's Ian Chillag tries to use them all in one sentence. Hilarity - and brain
damage - ensues.
415 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:07:50 by Jimmysh | 56 comments
Stargate Atlantis home theatre is a specially designed theme theatre with special Visual and
Acoustic effects. When you wave a hand at the Atlantis Logo at the entrance of the theatre, the
doors automatically slide open just like the Star Wars.
398 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:02:14 by Burento | 74 comments
Only in America ... it's St. Patrick's Day -- at least as we've come to know it. So much so that a
Dubliner like Declan Synnott couldn't it when he celebrated his first St. Patrick's Day in the US.
"It was a culture shock," says Synnott. "In Ireland, you go to church and spend the day with your
family. In America, it's a big party."
565 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 16:06:35 by bixby1 | 158 comments
These may seem small but here are some cool and helpful hints to avoid a minor embarrassment...
562 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 18:08:58 by nikki4digg | 121 comments
It’s almost a universal act to slack off at work for any reason… we Americans are just damn good
at it!
350 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 06:41:36 by casspa | 41 comments
Did Saint Patrick banish snakes from Irleand? It's the season where folks celebrate St. Patrick, the
man best known for banishing snakes from the green fields of Ireland.
82 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 16:28:17 by Caymon | 5 comments
Editors from Random House's Del Rey and Spectra imprints have created their own NCAA-style bracket
in which 32 of genre fiction's best known heroes, villains and beasts are placed head-to-head in a
six-round battle to the finish.
241 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:12:18 by spiderman0505 | 29 comments
Congo's fashion devotees call themselves "sapeurs," and at the moment, a group of them are
attempting to revive a movement that has been in some decline in recent years, perhaps not
coincidentally along with Congo itself.
326 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 15:50:41 by 0ldB0y | 42 comments
A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary
world up in arms.