Weirdness
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Quick roundup while uploading
- A nice article on the Golden Section in design
- China and Demography from Coming Anarchy
- Making engines more efficient – using steam of all things – very cool
- Cutting Edge Designers
- Prediction Markets – nice graphics
- Woman jailed for testicle attack
Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.”
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Ron Paul on the Colbert Report tonight
It should be an interesting matchup. We’ll see if they touch on any of the unpopular things Paul adamantly believes in like abortion, the Gold Standard and his thoughts on the United Nations.
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Cool site of the day
The Strange Maps blog – check out this one which juxtaposes foreign counties with US states in terms of GDP. The Tennessee-Saudi Arabia bit is surprising.
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The weirdest thing I read last week
From Jim Thompson’s novel, Pop. 1280 after the protagonist almost get hanged by an angry mob for rape
I figure sometimes that maybe that’s why we don’t make as much progress as other parts of the nation. People lose so much time from their jobs in lynching other people, and they spend so much money on rope and kerosene and getting likkered up in advance, and other essentials, that there ain’t an awful lot of money or man-hours left for practical purposes.
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The food chain takes surprising turns
Watch the whole thing, there’s several twists and turns in this.
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Sunday link round up
- A creepy collection of suicide notes
- Google used this camera to create their new “Street View” feature (which is not in Atlanta, yet).
- Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin explains why the lessening of racial majorities is a bad thing for diversity. Really.
- There’s a new, free version of Refactor! specifically for ASP.net. It’s pretty cool. When I installed it it deleted all of my toolbox snippets in Visual Studio, so be careful about that.
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Thursday link roundup
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
State wildlife officials said Wednesday they want to know how the huge hog dubbed “Monster Pig” got into a fenced hunting preserve where it was chased down and shot to death by an 11-year-old boy.
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weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet, 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
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Jamison was hunting with his father and the guides on May 3 when he killed the giant pig. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. - Are you a good liar?
- Microsoft Surface
- Popular Mechanics how to videos
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
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Quick link round
- Puzzles and Mysteries from ZenPundit
- The Captain America Syndrome at the Washington Monthly. – They don’t actually call it that, but that’s what they’re talking about.
- This seems dirty, but it’s mostly medical. Quite funny though.
- Yet more Stirling engines
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Strange and funny
From the Wikipedia entry on Sam Peckinpah
Ray Bradbury tells the story of Peckinpah’s long interest in filming Bradbury’s novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. When Bradbury asked how Peckinpah intended to shoot it, Peckinpah said he would “rip out the pages and stuff them into the camera.” Bradbury sold the rights to another party, and the incensed Peckinpah sent Bradbury a gift: a potted cactus and a jar of Vaseline.
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Strange and funny
From the Wikipedia entry on Sam Peckinpah
Ray Bradbury tells the story of Peckinpah’s long interest in filming Bradbury’s novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. When Bradbury asked how Peckinpah intended to shoot it, Peckinpah said he would “rip out the pages and stuff them into the camera.” Bradbury sold the rights to another party, and the incensed Peckinpah sent Bradbury a gift: a potted cactus and a jar of Vaseline.