Interesting stuff
I have found my dream car
…and my inner child is dancing.
Plain ol’ decent folk
Russian style via Gerard 00
You think you know Abraham Lincoln
You don’t know Abraham Lincoln 00
Why I Love Robert Heinlein
Neatly encapsulated in this letter. R.I.P. Starship Trooper. via Instapundit 00
Chameleon
A nifty bit of SciFi, via Kuriositas +10
The most beautiful horse in the world. Seriously.
Seems the Turks, with enough f&*k-you money, can do something right- All you ladies can now imagine that horse with a young Fabio Lanzoni riding it, and go to your bunks. +10
And now you know
Ever wonder where the strange names for groups of animals came from? Wonder no more, through the commentariat at Althouse: From a book I enjoyed as a kid and still browse sometimes called Why Things Are by Joel Achenbach: Why Are There So Many Bizarre Names For A Collection Of Animals…? Our favorite is a parliament of … Continue reading
America the Beautiful
From Kuriositas: The Grand Circle is a stunning, immense expanse of land located in the South-western United States. It encompasses parts of five states – Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. Not surprisingly it also holds the largest concentration of national parks and monuments in the country. It takes in Arches National Park, Monument … Continue reading
I wonder how this will play out?
Just in from the real frozen tundra: MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Beware of 56-year-old Russian women with axes. A lone wolf attacked Aishat Maksudova outside her sister’s home in Russia’s province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus Mountains. The animal bit the farmer on her arm and her leg and she fell to the ground, crying … Continue reading
Something you don’t see every day
Elvis Firing a Bazooka. He also was qualified to drive and fire an M48 tank. 00
Make Google dance… the nerd way.
With the search modifiers described in this article, you can search on Google with a surprising amount of narrowing available. Though the article is mainly about graphing the results of searches, it contains on one handy page all the obscure modifiers that let you pull useful data out of that torrent of information- such as … Continue reading
