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For those lucky enough to catch the BBC news this morning... You may have seen the film footage of penguins flying with skill and serenity over an Arctic landscape..? What perhaps was no less surprising, was where those penguins were heading... Perched on top of... more

From the page: "here are the scariest, steepest, longest, widest, narrowest, most confusing and most crooked ....."

poem via pw Try To Praise The Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the... more

From the page: "1. If there is a piece of paper on a surface a cat is required to sit on it..."

From the page: " Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley weighed 2 lbs, 8 ounces when she was born in February 2003. She was not expected to live more than a day, but she has survived. She continued to defy doctors expectations and at the age of 8 months, Kenadie was finally... more

Chand Saini's undeniable opus is his 1.7 million square-foot Rock Garden in Chandigarh - much of which he built on his own secretly and in his spare time. For years while working as a building inspector Chand reused found materials to begin constructing a remote complex... more