Man's most ridiculous attempts to take on Mother Nature

Re beached whale:

So 1,000 pounds of TNT later, the beach and the surrounding area was showered with a rain of rotting whale. The gathered crowd got a nice coating of molten whale blubber, and a giant slab flew over a quarter of a mile and crushed a man's car. Most of the whale, however, stayed right where it was on the beach.

I guess better pre-emptive. "What?" you say?

When whales die and rot, they become big gassy balloons of horror. Ask the people of Tainan, Taiwan. In 2004 they had a 50-ton whale that they were transporting down the street on the back of a truck. It exploded its guts all over bystanders, cars and shop fronts, like a pinata at Satan's birthday party.

UFC's Chuck Liddell's bar-fighting tips

You know, threatening you by saying, "I'm going to kick your ass!"
You respond: "OK, whatever bro."
A lot of it has to do with being confident in yourself and not really feeling the need to prove yourself all the time.

If you're attacked, strike vulnerable areas, obviously.
I always say look at "He Got Game," the one where Denzel Washington comes up to a guy, and the guy starts getting in his face, so he just hits him right in the throat. The guy can't breathe.

Next-gen infantry guns

Oh yeah, the XM8 was dropped.

Predicting the weather with clouds

Clouds can easily be broken into four categories. These categories are high clouds, middle clouds, low clouds and clouds with vertical growth.

Clouds are also identified by shape. Cumulus refers to a "heap" of clouds. Stratus refers to clouds that are long and streaky. And nimbus refers to the shape of "rain" because we all know what rain looks like.

Some guy's list of 1001 books

Ones he's already finished and ones yet to be read.

Ant swarms in Houston destroying electronics

It's not enough just to kill the queen. Experts say each colony has multiple queens that have to be taken out.

At the same time, the ants aren't taking the bait usually left out in traps, according to exterminators, who want the Environmental Protection Agency to loosen restrictions on the use of more powerful pesticides.

And when you do kill these ants, the survivors turn it to their advantage: They pile up the dead, sometimes using them as a bridge to cross safely over surfaces treated with pesticide.

Jobs that could kill you

#4 - Head of Anti-Mafia Taskforce, Sicily
Despite the Mob’s waning influence, talcking the Sicilain Mafia is still a fairly reckless career choice. Judge Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia prosecutor who along with his car was blown into pieces back in 1992.

How to remove permanent marker stains

Baking soda toothpaste

Maxim's sexiest vegetarians

10. Kylie Bax.

Great things you never knew you could do with tennis balls

34) Keep the yuckiness out of your pool by floating some tennis balls in the water. Supposedly, the balls will absorb body oils from people who swim in the water - but you need to replace them every few weeks to keep them fresh.

I fell in love with a female assassin

... Jason P Howe discovered that his girlfriend Marylin was leading a secret double life – as an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war.

Packable or transforming furniture

Gary Gygax dies

RIP.

Living literally in a wooden box

It has wheels and a padlock. The guy finally left it behind, but discovered different complications with apartment living.

Table manner tips

10. When you’re done with your meal, the proper placement of the silverware is to lay them parallel to each other and across the plate with the handles facing the right. To clarify, the ends would be facing 10 o’clock and four. Note: Not all waiters will know this and they still may ask you if it’s okay to clear your plate. At least you appear classy.

Checking on shelf life of spices from Unclutterer readers

Links to spice companies and their recommendations, as well as ideas in the comments.

Yoga breath exercises to calm or energize

Kundalini pranayama for the appropriate purpose.

How to shave with a safety razor

An 8 pack of your typical four blade cartridge razors can set you back over $20. $20! That’s $2.50 per cartridge. The cost of a double edged safety razor is no more than $.25.

Blood pen

If the guy grabs your leg... (wrestling)

Amazing Backflip Wrestling Move - Watch more free videos