10/17 2009
They make Watchmen costumes!
10/07 2009
Link: Did you know there's a town in Pennsylvania that has been on fire since 1962 and isn't estimated to stop burning for another 250 years?
I do now.
10/06 2009
Geese
Flying in the shape of a “v” allows geese to have an equal field of vision while conserving energy, using wingtip vortices to decrease any drag in flight.
Via Kottke
Curiously I already knew everything from this post from a terrible, terrible poem I heard not so long ago.
10/05 2009
169041, subsequently nicknamed The Atomic Tank, was later used in the Vietnam War and is now located at Robertson Barracks in Palmerston, Northern Territory. Although other tanks were subjected to nuclear tests, 169041 is the only tank known to have withstood atomic tests and subsequently gone on for another 23 years of service, including 15 months on operational deployment in a war zone.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_tank#Nuclear_Tests - Only the British would nuke one of their own tanks and then carry on using it.
10/03 2009
While polka dots are ancient, they first became common on clothing in the late nineteenth century in Britain. At the same time polka music was extremely popular and the name was also applied to the pattern, despite no real connection between them.
10/02 2009
Link: The first indian to play test cricket played for England
KS Janjitsinhji. He also captained Sussex. In 1899.
10/01 2009
Bruceploitation is a cultural phenomenon mostly seen in the 1970s after the untimely death of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in 1973. Movie makers in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hired a great number of Bruce Lee look-alike actors to star in many cheap knock-off martial arts movies to cash in on his success after his death.
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