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    • A little boy's dying wish came true, thanks to Dame Helen Mirren. Oliver Burton is a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who has fought different forms of cancer for nearly his entire life. He was recently diagnosed with terminal spine and bone marrow cancer.

      Oliver requested to visit Buckingham Palace and have afternoon tea with the queen of England as his dying wish. A national trust that helps cancer-stricken children says Queen Elizabeth was unable to accommodate the little boy. That's when Mirren stepped in to take her place. Mirren, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 film "The Queen," effortlessly took on the character for Oliver's sake.

      First, Mirren invited the boy and his parents to see her performance of the queen in a play she's currently in called "The Audience." Following the play, the family was invited backstage to have tea and cakes, served by footmen, and meet Mirren and her corgis. Mirren remained in character during the

      Read More »from Helen Mirren Fulfills Boy’s Dying Wish When Real Queen Says No
    • Every user gets a terabyte of storage. That's the big news that Yahoo! announced Monday for its photo-sharing service Flickr. So exactly how much digital memory is a terabyte? Think of it this way: If you took one high-definition photograph every hour of every day, it would take you approximately 61.5 years to fill all of that storage space. Another way to think of it: 537,731 full-quality photographs would be equal to one terabyte of storage.

      In addition to offering more free storage than any other online photo-sharing or social media service, Flickr's look has been completely overhauled. No longer antiquated with blue text links and small or cropped images, the new Flickr is redesigned to let the photos shine -- allowing them to be on full display.

      Beyond being able to personalize their Flickr experience with full-quality images, users may also share them across different social media platforms, including Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter. Plus, Android users can now get in on the

      Read More »from Flickr Gets Redesign for the Ages
    • Are you looking for love, but you're not sure where to find people who are into the same things as you? Maybe you've tried online dating or the bar scene or gone on blind dates set up by well-meaning friends, yet you still find yourself single and wanting. If you're a fan of the "Star Trek" franchise and consider yourself a Trekkie, then you may be in luck.

      There is an entire community of online dating sites that cater to those who speak Klingon and know more than the average person about Vulcans.

      The website TrekkieDating.com claims to be "a dating community that is light years ahead of others." There's also TrekPassions.com, designed exclusively for "Star Trek" lovers. Both sites have sprung up in an effort to connect "Trek" fans who want to live long and prosper with someone just like them.

      The owner of StarTrekDating.com, Oliver Gough, said regarding the popularity of these sites, "'Star Trek' fans are nerds. They know what they're looking for. Nine times out of 10 [they] post

      Read More »from New Dating Websites Cater to ‘Star Trek’ Fans Looking for Love
    • Part of the thrill of going on vacation in the summertime is lying out by the pool and enjoying the warm weather with a good book. Sure, a few harmless squirrels may wander nearby or maybe some pesky birds may drop in looking for food, but imagine how shocking it would be if something much larger stumbled onto your property. What would you do then?

      People relaxing at their vacation home in Redmond, Washington, got quite a surprise when they found a moose swimming in their pool. So they did what most of us would do to prove to our friends and family that it really happened—they turned on the video camera and pressed record.

      The moose appears to be swimming nonchalantly and enjoying himself for several minutes as the startled onlookers watch from a safe distance. It casually makes its way toward the shallow end of the pool, and then eventually gets out and slowly walks past the lounge chairs, climbs over the fence, and heads back into the woods.

      A woman in the background can be heard

      Read More »from Shocked Family Films Wild Moose Swimming in Their Pool
    • Who needs common building materials like steel, wood and drywall when you could just use tin cans? Think I'm crazy? I'm not, and neither is the nonprofit group known as Canstruction. In fact, they're philanthropic and have taken the idea of edible art to a whole new level.

      Canstruction holds design and build competitions all over the country in which participants are required to make structures using only canned goods. Contestants have created things like a toucan, a Keurig coffee maker, the Titanic, and even the video game character Yoshi from Super Mario Bros.

      The group's website reads, "Wherever a Canstruction competition is held, thousands of hungry people are fed, a greater awareness of the issues surrounding hunger is brought home to the public, and a spotlight is placed on the design and construction industry giving back to the communities it helps build."

      In 2010, Canstruction's design competitions brought in over 2 million pounds of food to local food banks, enough to provide

      Read More »from Canstruction Competitions Create New Way to Feed the Hungry

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