(I’m out of the office today, but here’s a bonus post to keep you amused.)

A “thrilling tale of how massive Victorian skirts saved a female naturalist from being impaled.”

“Thrilling” might be a bit of an overstatement, but it is interesting. Although if “impaled” is taken in an alternate vernacular context, that sentence might seem to promise something a little more titillating than the actual story is. 😉

(Via a very short BoingBoing article, most of which is quoted above.)