Links to Fill Your Weekend
A fan has recreated Futurama in LEGO form, including the Planet Express building and ship, plus minifigs for all the major characters.
From child prodigy to prostitute: the sad tale of one British girl.
Google, jumping on the trendy liberal bandwagon as usual, used a black-screened page for its search engine during "Earth hour" (when people were supposed to turn off their lights for an hour as part of a further effort to "raise awareness" about global warming and all that claptrap). However, the black screen actual consumes more power.
Lots of talk about former New York governor Spitzer was in the news recently. In more recent news, the husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) demonstrates that he could get it for cheaper, and the president of Formula One shows how it can be an even bigger scandal.
The European Union has instituted some downright asinine regulations for bus drivers.
A radioactive movie set may be responsible for John Wayne's cancer. What's more, the whole thing involves Howard Hughes.
Sometimes headlines and articles don't match up very well. Recently, one headline talked about scientists finding that an asteroid had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, but the article only talks about one that hit the Austrian Alps. Unless it was one of those bouncing meteors, I don't think it destroyed Sodom or Gomorrah. Another headline declared that experts said it was okay to skip the mouth-to-mouth portion of CPR, but, when reading the article, you find that this is talking about an adult cardiac arrest, rather than all CPR (although it does say "something is better than nothing").
The news is nearly a year old, but Canada has produced a 100kg gold coin. As Americans, we should strive to top this.
The Lord of the Rings meets legal geekdom: property law as applied to LotR.
Yahoo made a list of the 10 most historically inaccurate movies. However, I wouldn't label them the most inaccurate, and it includes 2001, which is hardly fair. There also seems to be some debate over whether or not the battle depicted in The Patriot is the one the article claims; if it's a different battle (the name has slipped my mind), the depiction would be more accurate.
Famous photographs in LEGO form.
April Fools' Pranks for nerds. I like. There's also a list of pranks for your co-workers.
It's nice to see people decorating their ceiling.
A photojournal from a trip with Russian nuclear icebreakers.
As part of this blog's quest to appeal to pure lowest common denominator: giant squid sex is apparently either violent or gay. More on this as it develops.
I need one of these for each of my condiments.
Cracked has a list of five famous inventors who stole their big idea, but they seem to stretch a bit. While I'm less familiar with some of them, I've known for years (and it's widely available knowledge, even if not widely known) that Edison did not invent the lightbulb -- he merely made a longer lasting, more practical one. Moreover, the claims of Heinrich Göbel are ... iffy, as can be summarized in his wikipedia entry. I'm guessing that at least some of the other claims are similarly iffy.
A fifth grader managed to point out a mistake at the Smithsonian that had apparently gone unnoticed for 27 years.
Maine has yet to do much to stop illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses, and some people are taking advantage (or trying to).
I link here more for the already perfect headline, than for any newsiness: Toys "R" Us Carries Lower Back Tattoo Stickers Perfect For Your Trampy Kid.
Obama bowled a 37. My bowling isn't good enough to make fun of many people, but apparently Obama is one of those people. Also note that the reporter says that Obama "laced up" his shoes, despite the fact that they were velcro.
I get rather tired of much of the "recession" talk going on. Recently example:
some guy: "You don't think we're in a recession?"
me: "I know we're not in a recession."
him, confused and flustered: "How can you say that?"
me: "Because I know what the definition of a recession is."
Is the economy spectacular? No, but it is still growing, which is the opposite of a recession. John Lott has a good piece on the media-inspired recession myth.
From child prodigy to prostitute: the sad tale of one British girl.
Google, jumping on the trendy liberal bandwagon as usual, used a black-screened page for its search engine during "Earth hour" (when people were supposed to turn off their lights for an hour as part of a further effort to "raise awareness" about global warming and all that claptrap). However, the black screen actual consumes more power.
Lots of talk about former New York governor Spitzer was in the news recently. In more recent news, the husband of Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) demonstrates that he could get it for cheaper, and the president of Formula One shows how it can be an even bigger scandal.
The European Union has instituted some downright asinine regulations for bus drivers.
A radioactive movie set may be responsible for John Wayne's cancer. What's more, the whole thing involves Howard Hughes.
Sometimes headlines and articles don't match up very well. Recently, one headline talked about scientists finding that an asteroid had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, but the article only talks about one that hit the Austrian Alps. Unless it was one of those bouncing meteors, I don't think it destroyed Sodom or Gomorrah. Another headline declared that experts said it was okay to skip the mouth-to-mouth portion of CPR, but, when reading the article, you find that this is talking about an adult cardiac arrest, rather than all CPR (although it does say "something is better than nothing").
The news is nearly a year old, but Canada has produced a 100kg gold coin. As Americans, we should strive to top this.
The Lord of the Rings meets legal geekdom: property law as applied to LotR.
Yahoo made a list of the 10 most historically inaccurate movies. However, I wouldn't label them the most inaccurate, and it includes 2001, which is hardly fair. There also seems to be some debate over whether or not the battle depicted in The Patriot is the one the article claims; if it's a different battle (the name has slipped my mind), the depiction would be more accurate.
Famous photographs in LEGO form.
April Fools' Pranks for nerds. I like. There's also a list of pranks for your co-workers.
It's nice to see people decorating their ceiling.
A photojournal from a trip with Russian nuclear icebreakers.
As part of this blog's quest to appeal to pure lowest common denominator: giant squid sex is apparently either violent or gay. More on this as it develops.
I need one of these for each of my condiments.
Cracked has a list of five famous inventors who stole their big idea, but they seem to stretch a bit. While I'm less familiar with some of them, I've known for years (and it's widely available knowledge, even if not widely known) that Edison did not invent the lightbulb -- he merely made a longer lasting, more practical one. Moreover, the claims of Heinrich Göbel are ... iffy, as can be summarized in his wikipedia entry. I'm guessing that at least some of the other claims are similarly iffy.
A fifth grader managed to point out a mistake at the Smithsonian that had apparently gone unnoticed for 27 years.
Maine has yet to do much to stop illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses, and some people are taking advantage (or trying to).
I link here more for the already perfect headline, than for any newsiness: Toys "R" Us Carries Lower Back Tattoo Stickers Perfect For Your Trampy Kid.
Obama bowled a 37. My bowling isn't good enough to make fun of many people, but apparently Obama is one of those people. Also note that the reporter says that Obama "laced up" his shoes, despite the fact that they were velcro.
I get rather tired of much of the "recession" talk going on. Recently example:
some guy: "You don't think we're in a recession?"
me: "I know we're not in a recession."
him, confused and flustered: "How can you say that?"
me: "Because I know what the definition of a recession is."
Is the economy spectacular? No, but it is still growing, which is the opposite of a recession. John Lott has a good piece on the media-inspired recession myth.
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