The Trolley Blog

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Rock stars and their parents

A selection of 1970s photographs featuring rocks stars at home with their parents.

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Avalanche Sharks

Avalanche Sharks - Horror of the Mountains a Snowboarding video by whitelines

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How One Phone Number Accidentally Started An Internet Movement

Don't #starbucksdrakehands and text people.

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The greatest pictures ever taken of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen

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An interesting octopus infogram, to celebrate World Octopus Day

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Ron Burgundy's collection of hilarious ads for the Dodge Durango

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The new Mercedes-Benz advert is pretty amusing. We suspect fowl play

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British artist Alex Chinneck slid the facade of a house clean off.

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Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time

How Rap Stats, the brand-new tool, can help you figure out the migratory patterns of drug dealers, when hip-hop became big business, and whether money really is over bitches

Then perform your own searches here

http://rapgenius.com/rapstats

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THE FACES OF FACEBOOK

More than 1,2 billion Facebook profile pictures together, in chronological order, including you and all your friends. Find out which FACE# are you!

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Use Canopy to discover the most useful, beautiful, and well-designed products on Amazon.This looks interesting - and here you can register to be the first involved

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How LinkedIn and Google+ gave away the alleged owner of the internet’s largest drug market

This is how your social media activity gives you away. Ross William Ulbricht was arrested this afternoon in San Francisco for, among other things, conspiracy to "violate the narcotics law of the United States." Ulbricht is allegedly the Dread Pirate Roberts, the owner and administrator of Silk Road

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GRAVITY - Now playing

From acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron comes “Gravity”, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. View the trailer and explore the exclusive 3D experience now. Another rich and immersive website

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WWF France - 40 ans

Check out this French 40th anniversary site for WWF - don't skip the intro

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David Bowie - "Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix By James Murphy For The DFA)"

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A lake in Tanzania is turning animals to stone. Full set of stunning images here

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A collection of photo's that will make your stomach drop, found in full here