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Picture this: This photo with heart by Wellington PR Gemma Collier (28) has made the finals of this year’s National Geographic International Photography Contest. Her caption reads:

“My grandfather was born and raised on our New Zealand farm. He and my grandmother were married nearly 60 years. Preparing for a photo in the barley, my grandmother lovingly reached up to adjust his hat. This was his last harvest.”

You can vote in the Viewer’s Choice competition here. (Via Boston.com’s Big Picture blog)

Interesting: The 50 Most Interesting Articles on Wikipedia. The one on Traumatic Insemination, sounds ‘full on bro’ – a mating practice of some species involving the penis piercing the abdomen of the female…And the story behind the Tube Bar prank calls, which was the inspiration for the running gag of phone pranks in The Simpsons. The exhaustive list of the names used in the original pranks is fantastic…Al Coholic, Mike Ocksmall, Phil Lacio, Stan Dup, Stu Peit …

Trends: Where to now for the Idol franchise?

Who knew Neil Young had such a good sense of humour; here he sings the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air .

Drugs are bad, okay: A new party drug Mephedrone, which is apparently nicknamed “Meow Meow” and is a cross between coke and MDMA. Vice magazine gets the low down on the user experience. Sounds like fun…

“There was also a totally paralyzing mania. I felt totally insane. I remember just standing in my front room staring at the all the blinds on my windows and peering between them. They had heatwaves coming out of them. And I was terrified of every car that came past. Each one of them sounded like it was a bunch of people coming to visit me and tell me about all the bad things I’d done in my life, or kill me or something.”

Video: The Muppets sing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.