Lots of Links
I haven't posted in awhile, so here are some of the various links that I've collected since last time.
Researchers have discovered George Washington's boyhood home. It turns out that it was on the farm he had lived on.
A man saved a bear from drowning. That headline might go beyond "man bites dog" territory.
Fred Thompson has an excellent take on the lousiness of the recent Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court ruling (the recent Gitmo case). Are we sure that it's too late to make him our presidential nominee?
Will Smith believes that Barack Obama has made it good to be an American again. For those of us that remember some of the inane racial commentary from a few episodes of his tv show, this is hardly surprising.
Peder Zane documents the joys of biking to work, in video form.
It turns out that wind power is unreliable, pricier, and emits more carbon dioxide than promoters would have you believe. It's less surprising to those of us who have been following the matter. Money quote: "Windfarm output is never zero. Sometimes it's less."
A UK muslim man is outraged that his wife's driving instructor was a man undergoing a sex change instead of a woman. In other UK sex change news, the procedure was approved for a 12-year-old girl. I would say that the girl should see a psychiatrist instead, but their profession actually supports such procedures. Honestly, how many more obvious indicators of psychological problems are there than not being able to cope with your own gender?
Leftist wacko -- err, Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters threatened to nationalize America's oil industry.
The search for the Titanic was actually a cover-up for the search for sunken nuclear submarines.
Christians are not welcome in certain areas of Britain. Police there would rather roll over and die than do their job.
For those who have a National Journal subscription, or, much more likely, access to computers that do (e.g., ASU's computing commons), you can see that the much-hyped claims that one quarter of teenage girls have an STD are false.
The music video that's taking the world by storm: I Will Derive (to the tune of I Will Survive).
A Frenchman spent fifteen years creating a miniature version of Paris in his backyard.
Cracked takes a look at five strange holidays.
A video showing how to balance seventeen dominos on a single domino, for all those times in your life when you need that skill.
Scientists are hard at work trying to harness the energy of breast motion. At least, that's what they claim they're doing.
A car that runs on water.
Human ovulation caught on film, and tests for new moon rovers, in this video from New Scientist.
Someone built a LEGO Kennedy Space Center with 750,000 bricks. It includes a space shuttle that's over six feet long, and the entire complex is over 1,500 sqare feet. Lower on the page is a 1,300,000-brick soccer stadium, complete with 30,000 mini-figs. A group of British LEGO employees assembled a group of 35,310 Star Wars Clone Troopers that somehow raised money to benefit the National Autistic Society. Also in the UK, a record for tallest LEGO tower was set, at approximately 100ft. Back stateside, a LEGO boulder was produced, a la Indiana Jones, and rolled down a hill in San Francisco ... into a car.
The results of all mythbusters episodes in one handy location. It's not quite as fun as watching the show.
High-tech Japanese toilets consume 4% of household energy there, and other neat facts.
You can use a 9-volt battery to up your brain power. I can't wait for the first person who realizes that it doesn't up their brain power enough, with tragedy ensuing.
A city council has decided to dye dog poo pink in an effort to shame the owners into cleaning up after their dogs. This does not strike me as a successful policy, but it does strike me as an amusing one.
A video knife safety guide. The fourth video really does make me want a knife.
A bar graph of tooth loss by state. Unsurprisingly, southern and border states lead the way. The most tooth loss outside that region is in Kansas. Most-toothed state is Connecticut, followed by Utah.
Italian soldiers are being beaten up by a 77-year-old Japanese woman. I'm not sure if it says more about the soldiers or the woman.
Photographs showing change in New York City skyline c.1883 and 1930.
An overview of New Jersey Governor Corzine's efforts to use fiscal pressure to get small towns in his state to merge, under the rationale that small towns are fiscally inefficient. He wants to see minimum populations of 10,000, but the cost per capita only goes up for much smaller towns (under 2,000 population), and the lowest cost per capita is in towns of 6,000-15,000. Perhaps he should force larger towns to break up as well, while he's at it.
An old story about an attorney who accidentally sued himself.
The out-of-control parent trend has hit Japan, where one school play had 25 Snow Whites because selecting only one girl for the title role would be "unfair".
German nursing homes are using fake bus stops to stop Alzheimer's patients from wondering off.
Researchers have discovered George Washington's boyhood home. It turns out that it was on the farm he had lived on.
A man saved a bear from drowning. That headline might go beyond "man bites dog" territory.
Fred Thompson has an excellent take on the lousiness of the recent Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court ruling (the recent Gitmo case). Are we sure that it's too late to make him our presidential nominee?
Will Smith believes that Barack Obama has made it good to be an American again. For those of us that remember some of the inane racial commentary from a few episodes of his tv show, this is hardly surprising.
Peder Zane documents the joys of biking to work, in video form.
It turns out that wind power is unreliable, pricier, and emits more carbon dioxide than promoters would have you believe. It's less surprising to those of us who have been following the matter. Money quote: "Windfarm output is never zero. Sometimes it's less."
A UK muslim man is outraged that his wife's driving instructor was a man undergoing a sex change instead of a woman. In other UK sex change news, the procedure was approved for a 12-year-old girl. I would say that the girl should see a psychiatrist instead, but their profession actually supports such procedures. Honestly, how many more obvious indicators of psychological problems are there than not being able to cope with your own gender?
Leftist wacko -- err, Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters threatened to nationalize America's oil industry.
The search for the Titanic was actually a cover-up for the search for sunken nuclear submarines.
Christians are not welcome in certain areas of Britain. Police there would rather roll over and die than do their job.
For those who have a National Journal subscription, or, much more likely, access to computers that do (e.g., ASU's computing commons), you can see that the much-hyped claims that one quarter of teenage girls have an STD are false.
The music video that's taking the world by storm: I Will Derive (to the tune of I Will Survive).
A Frenchman spent fifteen years creating a miniature version of Paris in his backyard.
Cracked takes a look at five strange holidays.
A video showing how to balance seventeen dominos on a single domino, for all those times in your life when you need that skill.
Scientists are hard at work trying to harness the energy of breast motion. At least, that's what they claim they're doing.
A car that runs on water.
Human ovulation caught on film, and tests for new moon rovers, in this video from New Scientist.
Someone built a LEGO Kennedy Space Center with 750,000 bricks. It includes a space shuttle that's over six feet long, and the entire complex is over 1,500 sqare feet. Lower on the page is a 1,300,000-brick soccer stadium, complete with 30,000 mini-figs. A group of British LEGO employees assembled a group of 35,310 Star Wars Clone Troopers that somehow raised money to benefit the National Autistic Society. Also in the UK, a record for tallest LEGO tower was set, at approximately 100ft. Back stateside, a LEGO boulder was produced, a la Indiana Jones, and rolled down a hill in San Francisco ... into a car.
The results of all mythbusters episodes in one handy location. It's not quite as fun as watching the show.
High-tech Japanese toilets consume 4% of household energy there, and other neat facts.
You can use a 9-volt battery to up your brain power. I can't wait for the first person who realizes that it doesn't up their brain power enough, with tragedy ensuing.
A city council has decided to dye dog poo pink in an effort to shame the owners into cleaning up after their dogs. This does not strike me as a successful policy, but it does strike me as an amusing one.
A video knife safety guide. The fourth video really does make me want a knife.
A bar graph of tooth loss by state. Unsurprisingly, southern and border states lead the way. The most tooth loss outside that region is in Kansas. Most-toothed state is Connecticut, followed by Utah.
Italian soldiers are being beaten up by a 77-year-old Japanese woman. I'm not sure if it says more about the soldiers or the woman.
Photographs showing change in New York City skyline c.1883 and 1930.
An overview of New Jersey Governor Corzine's efforts to use fiscal pressure to get small towns in his state to merge, under the rationale that small towns are fiscally inefficient. He wants to see minimum populations of 10,000, but the cost per capita only goes up for much smaller towns (under 2,000 population), and the lowest cost per capita is in towns of 6,000-15,000. Perhaps he should force larger towns to break up as well, while he's at it.
An old story about an attorney who accidentally sued himself.
The out-of-control parent trend has hit Japan, where one school play had 25 Snow Whites because selecting only one girl for the title role would be "unfair".
German nursing homes are using fake bus stops to stop Alzheimer's patients from wondering off.
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