Over at G+ I’ve been collecting photographs of all the president’s facepalms. Yesterday’s discovery of a suitable candidate for Woodrow Wilson wrapped up all of the 20th and 21st Century presidents. G+ doesn’t include robust text formatting or link listing tools, so here’s the roster, with links back to the relevant G+ post: 20th...
Robespierre, a frequent contributor at Fodor’s Travel Talk Forums online, suddenly stopped posting to the boards in July of last year. NPR’s All Things Considered did an essay on why he stopped and the reactions of his fellow forum posters. Robespierre died. People he knew online — friends and acquaintances — knew only that...
Long video, but worth it.
Heist From the OED: heist (_____). slang (orig. U.S.). A hold-up, a robbery; also attrib. and Comb. Also as v., to hold up, rob, steal. So ‘heister, a robber, a hijacker; a shoplifter. Cf. hist v.2 2, hoist v. 6 and n. 5. 1927 Dialect...
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“It could act like a big random fluctuation, like suddenly making the temperature of the universe become really high and boiling everything,” he told New Scientist. “Or it could be more peaceful, where you’re simply converted into somebody who remembers stuff from the large world, so the statistics would be those of the large...
If word about this spreads, I predict a cat holocaust. UPDATE: One implication of brain parasites controlling behavior: “Don’t drink the orange juice. It’s full of good little worker bee parasites.” Another: Our personalities result from complex interactions among the various brain parasites we have acquired over the years. “We need to starve the...
If Apple made the new Mac Minis a little minier, PC owners could stuff them into their spare drive bays. (Mac Mini: 2″x6.5″x6.5″. PC drive bay: 1.75″x5.75″x5.75″)
Photos and motorcycle diaries from inside the Chernobyl ‘dead zone.’ “I travel a lot and one of my favorite destination lead through poisoned with radiation, so called Chernobyl “dead zone” It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite? because one can ride there for hours and not meet any single car and not to...