“A Real Lightning Fight”
Now that’s what I call applied science! Oh GoddessJ, would you mind terribly if I got one of those? I’ve always wanted to shoot lightning from my fingertips… 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“The monkey tail, a beard”
I’ve worn a full beard for more than fifteen years. When I saw this, I had to tease GoddessJ by appearing to seriously consider it… 😉
“Boffins play ‘Pac-Man’ with tiny living organisms”
No fair, I wanna play with the paramecium! Those scientist guys get all the fun! 😉
“Max and the Typhoon”
I was just introduced to this a little while ago, on a friend’s blog. If you’ve ever had or known cats, it will almost certainly have you rolling around on the floor in laughter.
“Mail Rail: London’s long-lost underground postal railroad”
I’ve always loved this sort of thing. The idea of exploring secretive, long-hidden places fascinates me.
“Disclaimers in Email Signatures are Not Just Annoying, But Legally Meaningless”
I recently saw this, and having seen several of these disclaimers in the last decade or so, thought it would make a good blog topic. When I first started communicating with BigCo, they had a policy that required an eleven-line legal disclaimer at the end of all e-mails. I know bits are cheap, but these …
“Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?”
I’ve never watched any of his other movies, so far as I know — they seldom appeal to me — but I happened to like the movie The Last Airbender, though I know I’m in the minority. If I’d ever followed the series it was based on, I’d probably be donating to this too. Probably …
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“Möbius Gear: a one-sided, toothed gear”
If asked, I’d have said this wasn’t possible. Just goes to prove that I’m not omniscient. 😉 I wonder what use someone will find for it. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
“‘Star Wars’ fan gathers support for life-size AT-AT”
I’d be all for this idea if it weren’t for one thing: at this point in history, do you really want to give the people currently running various levels of the US government the ability to commandeer a walking weapons platform explicitly designed for really big lasers? (I’m mostly joking… but only mostly.)
“‘Impossible motion’ trick wins Illusion Contest”
Another fun one. Try to figure it out before it’s explained. 🙂 (Hint: as with yesterday’s entry, perspective is everything.)