Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
I thought that the Pied Piper was just a story, until I read this. Ptomaine-poisoned rye bread or child slavery, according to the comments… either way, it doesn’t sound like the kind of thing I’d want to tell my kids at bedtime. As a cautionary tale in daylight hours, definitely.
This is the sort of thing I expect will become commonplace, as replacement body parts become a lot less expensive. (I’d love to claim credit for the prediction, but I’ve seen it before, in science fiction novels from at least two authors. One was William Gibson, the other I can’t recall the name of.)
Most of the licenses listed here are perfectly normal, but there are a few really odd ones…
It seems that I write like Mark Twain, at least when I put in the text of one of my longer recent blog posts. Oddly enough, no one else in the fifty comments on the Boing Boing post on this (at the time of this writing) was told that one, and lots of them tried …
This bug was filed back in 2005, but I just discovered it. It’s a nasty one, but between Apple and various Linux distributions, I think they’re making headway on it. The description starts out: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to …
Right on target. Both the comic and the Boing Boing commentary on it.
Ooh… if I had any artistic talent at all, I’d try to duplicate this on my iPod Touch. It just seems too right. 🙂
I thought they were scary enough already!
If this sort of thing appeared in a science fiction/fantasy novel, people might just blink and accept the premise. If it appeared in a history text, they’d shake their collective head over it and silently thank the deity of their choice that no one is that stupid anymore. But if it’s spouted by a modern-day …
I’ve long been fascinated with human attempts at protecting bird food from squirrels, ever since seeing one at my grandparents’ place in Pennsylvania. Most such attempts are spectacular failures (as was theirs), though I’ve posted before about a few that work. Apparently there’s an extremely funny book on the subject now too. Maybe it will …
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