Every year the Sharks make a hard run for the Summer Of Fear title, with breathless stories about the latest attacks. Why should 2010 be any different? In an interesting human perseverance note, the first rescuer on the scene had been attacked by a shark himself, but still came on and brought the victim in.
Singer Kate McGarrigle has died, she is well known to folk fans, but less known to the general public. Her Matapedia album, done with her sister Anna, is in my top five folk albums of all time.
Jeremy Clarkson goes to see Mama Mia at the theater. I did this once as well. Once. Via The Flibbergibbet
Passenger accidentally ejects while flying with an air show team, actually I am surprised it doesn’t happen more often given the wide variety of passengers that fly with these teams. While reading this I was thinking this was the likely result if somehow the Flibbertigibbet was ever conned into flying on one of these. I [...]
David Malki of the brilliant Wondermark comic today has an absolutely essential list of supernatural collective nouns. Now when I run a D&D game I will be able to tell the players they are being attacked by an audacity of gargoyles. Remember, knowing is half the battle.
You can’t beat this headline: Ice-skating bear kills circus director That is just too awesome.
A brutal youth gang has been deprived of its weapons in the UK. I say it is about time time they tackled this vicious group that has for so long terrorized old ladies at street corners.
Never bring a grasshopper gun to a siege gun’s job.
English Punt Wars flare up. Best quote: We’ve had argy bargy, touts fighting over tourists, pushing and shoving, yes. But everyone is a bit shocked because it is not something we have known before. That is the England I love, filled with argy bargy.
I was talking to some people yesterday about my preference for science based on science, rather than superstition or hunches. My two favorite sites on the topic are Bad Science and Science Based Medicine, but there are plenty of other good ones out there. Below the cut is a Youtube film about an emergency room [...]