Update: These fantastic pictures and many more are available at Boston.com.

The UK Telegraph has a collection of the best volcano pictures I’ve seen. Go click on the images to see them full sized.

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A new “bony-skulled” dinosaur species has been discovered in Texas, labeled Texacephale langstoni.

The dinosaur had a softball-sized lump of bone on the top of its skull which scientists speculate was used to ram each other head on.

Surprisingly, the dinosaur was discovered in Big Bend National Park and not in the halls of the legislature. Then again, perhaps those are just the descendants.

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Your very own Royal Observer Corps (ROC) nuclear bunker! The perfect gift for the wife or little Timmy’s birthday. Available on eBay with a current bid of only £21,100.00 (or 31,517 USD):

The site extends to approximately 50ft x 50ft with an additional small piece of land 16ft x 16ft attached, which was the original site of the ROC hut during the war years.

The bunker is in a perfect location on farmland and offers the freedom of having your own land and bunker, but with the security of being on private land which is fenced and securely gated. There is a right of way to the site 4’ 6” wide along a private road and field boundary. The site has its own purpose built stile, again to a right of way to the bunker, and is 200 yards from the road.

The bunker is accessed via a metal hatch and shaft. There is an access ladder to a depth of 15ft which leads to two rooms, one for the chemical toilet and a large monitoring room 15ft x 7ft 6ins, which was previously used as a monitoring room in the event of a nuclear attack. A ventilation shaft with two louvered vents is located alongside the entrance shaft with a second ventilation shaft at the other end of the room.

The bunker is completely dry and it would be hard to find one in such good condition. There is a BT line to a telephone in the bunker. However, communication would have been via teletalk (as seen in the photo). Lighting is supplied via a 12 volt battery and is in full working order.

I wonder how much it would cost to transport that bit of history to my back yard?

HT to Gizmodo.

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Always wanted to cruise around town in a Roadster from Tesla Motors but found the $101,500 price tag a little too much in these difficult economic times? After all, zero to sixty in 3.9 seconds on pure, quite electric power is pretty impressive.

Now you can lease one for three years and 30,000 miles for just $12,000 down and a mere $1,658 a month. At then end of the lease you can either buy it or “pay a fee and walk away”.

What could be better than that?

HT to Engadget.

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I hope you’re wearing black today. Johnny would have been 78 today.

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USA’s first Olympic hockey win over Canada in 50 years when the Americans beat Canada 2-1 on their way to the Olympic gold medal in 1960. 42 stops by Ryan Miller. America has a bye in the quarterfinals and have a shot of being the number one seed (go Sweden!).

HT to Sarah Palin.

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Forbes lists the 20 most miserable cities in America, calculated from things like unemployment, taxes, crime, weather, and even how the pro sports teams are performing (gotta look for hope where you can find it these days). Top of the list:

1. Cleveland, OH
   Things are so bad they’ve lost 71,000 residents over past five years.
2. Stockton, CA
   Where unemployment is expected to average 18.5% in 2010.
3. Memphis, TN
   “Violent crime is second worst in the country and public officials are getting locked up at an alarming rate.”

Except for the horrid winter in Memphis this year, that about sums it up.

And what about Obama’s home town of Chicago? Tenth on the list.

The global freeze that has seemingly gripped the entire world except for Winter Olympics site Vancouver has made fashion designers search for warmer garments. And what could be warmer than fur?

In fact, after nearly disappearing during the height of the recession, the warmest material of all–fur–is making a high-profile comeback at the weeklong parade of fashon shows that kicked off Thursday. Designers including Catherine Malandrino, Alexander Wang, Rebecca Taylor, Diane von Furstenberg and Zac Posen have incorporated furs and fleeces, ranging from Himalayan fox and sable to Mongolian lamb and goat, into their lines.

Furs were featured in collars and trim, knitted into sweaters, dyed, or sewn together with fabric or leather, as in an elegant coat that Carolina Herrera showed Monday morning at Manhattan’s Bryant Park.

Can’t wait for PETA’s reaction.

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Kids make giant snowman. Dad makes it cool.

“My husband is an engineer and decided later on to make the snowman breathe fire,” Anna Berte writes. “Hope everyone enjoys this snowman as much as the rest of our neighborhood does.”

Pretty awesome.

HT to Boing Boing.

There’s a pill being developed that will help people live to be a hundred, and do it healthier and more active.

If true, that means retirement age can be raised to 82, meaning fewer people collecting Social Security and more people paying taxes. Everyone wins. So why isn’t the government subsidizing the Methuselah Project?

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