Why are street prostitutes so ugly?

There is a shady part of the town which I have to walk through regularly. There are always prostitutes there and they are ugly as hell. Fat, rundown, teeth missing, etc. Shouldn't they at least try to improve their appearance. Or are their prospective customers so desperate they don't event care how the woman looks like?

I couldn't get myself to pick one even if my life depended on it.

How to balance easily on your hands if you're a lazy computer geek?

Here's a simple exercise which I was able to do on the first attempt. It really does give you a sense of accomplishment and it's not as hard as it looks. The only problem was my knees slipped on my elbows, so I couldn't really hold the position for long. I guess my technique needs polishing, but nevertheless it was fun. Try it!

Hairless, artificial, nude women. Is that what we want?

Some Russian comrade collected the images of Playboy centerfolds over the years. We started with Marilyn and ended up with unreal, photoshopped, "perfect" women with silicone breasts who look too sterile to be sexually appealing.

Where do we go from here, guys?

When the ice-cream headache strikes

Do you know the feeling when you eat ice-cream too fast and you get a sudden, very painful headache? It's called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia and it is caused by the sudden dilation of blood vessels in the head.

Luckily, I haven't had this feeling since childhood. I hated it back then. You cannot do anything, but to wait for it to go away.

Ice-cream hell. :)

Run if the terrorbird approaches

Titanis was its name and it ruled North America. That's right, a bird was the ruler of the US of A a few million years ago. It couldn't fly, but boy it could run and it didn't hesitate to use its axe-like beak if you didn't appease it.

Would you like a bird as your ruler?

Knee-deep in the dead

In 1487 for the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan the Aztec guys sacrificed thousands of people. According to the historical sources the victims were walking slowly in 4 queues (each several kilometers long) toward the temple and there the priests killed them and cut their heart out continuously for days:

"At the inauguration of this Great Temple in 1487, Ahuizotl ordered the sacrifice of many prisoners of war; an average of 1,000 victims a day were sacrificed over a period of twenty days. Each day blood ran like a river onto the pavement of the Great Plaza, and the stairs of the great pyramid were literally bathed in blood."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Tenochtitlan

We denounce the bloody conquest of Mexico these days, but the Aztecs themselves weren't exactly angels back then.

How to kill the world's oldest tree quickly and easily

Prometheus was the oldest known tree until 1964. It began to grown in the bronze age and it managed to survive everything since then until some young researcher came around who studied climate changes.

He couldn't determine the age of the tree with his borer, so he told the forest service to cut it down. They did and he was able to study the age of the tree easily by looking at the stump:

Pity the Little Ice Age he wanted to study began only 600 years ago, so choosing such an old tree was a slight overshot. Sic itur gloria mundi.