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A Labrador retriever rescued a 9-year-old survivor of Hurricane Katrina from a river after the boy’s raft hit a log and he fell overboard, authorities said.

Ryan Rambo, 9, whose family moved to this western Colorado town last year after the hurricane struck their Marrero, La., home, fell into the Roaring Fork River on Sunday, Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario said.

The 2-year-old Lab, named Zion, jumped in the river and swam to Ryan after he began screaming for help, said Chelsea Bennett, 13, the dog’s owner.

Ryan held on to Zion as the dog swam back to the bank. The boy suffered only a scratch, said his mother, Deana Rambo.

“How ironic, isn’t it?” Deana Rambo said. “We come here to get away from flood waters, and he nearly drowns in the river.” 

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Hmmmmm, I wonder if DogGeeding or OtherDogGeeding would help me out of a pickle.

The world’s first computer/speedometer designed to fit on any baby stroller – THE STROLLOMETER

Image above is an animated gif, which loops forever. What you have to do, is look at the blue and yellow negative, and then after 30 seconds or so, the photo of a mountain will appear . Eventhough the mountain you see is greyscaled (black & white), your eyes are tricked and image looks like it’s in full-color (until you move your eyes though…)

Via Mighty Optical Illusions

On February 28, 2001, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, located some thirty miles below the surface of the earth and a few miles away from Olympia Washington, moved the ground for a bit more than half a minute.

A sand tracing pendulum, located at a shop in Port Townsend called Mind Over Matter (since moved to Sedona, Arizona), produced some very interesting patterns.

Read more about it here.