A Ukrainian man is the tallest person in the world at 8 feet 5 inches, overshadowing a Chinese man who previously held the title, Guinness World Records said Wednesday.

Leonid Stadnik, a 37-year-old former veterinarian, is 8 inches taller than the former titleholder, China’s Bao Xishun, who measured 7 feet 9 inches, Guinness World Records spokeswoman Amarilis Espinoza said in London

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Some horrible inventor has taken two things that should never be mixed — dogs and fanny packs — and mutated them into one terrible invention.

Via Gizmodo 

Ok, I started grad school a year ago and I have been complaing ever since. Now I have to shut up and tough it out.  arrrgh. Still its good to see someone achieve anything you want no matter how old you are.

A 94-year-old Australian great-great-grandmother who quit school at 12 is said to have become the world’s oldest person to earn a university masters degree.

Medical Science Masters Degree graduate Phyllis Turner, from Australia’s Adelaide University, began studying for her postgraduate degree at age 90 and received her award this week.

“I feel very very happy after five years of study, but sorry that I am just a little bit immobilized,” Mrs Turner, who uses a walking stick, told Australian papers. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, now the same source is now telling me that GEORGE MILLER the writer director of MAD MAX, BABE and the recent Oscar winner for HAPPY FEET is circling…get this…Warner Brother’s JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA!
The strong chisme (rumor) around town today is that he is coming aboard to direct!

Via Latinoreview

A little glimpse of what you think you know of how our president is on the ranch.

Try getting cell block A guys to do this in the states. At least we know Michael Jackson still has an audience

With Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie as part of the cast. this should be interesting this fall.

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Source: Inventorspot.com

MIT Student Dana Newman is designing a new space suit that is sleeker and more fashionable. It’s not only better looking but it takes away the cumbersome inconvenience that the old builky suits had… Astronauts will have more mobility!