It has been awhile since I posted about a web comic but North World by Lars Brown has made my must be read regularly list recently and I thought I would point it out. North World has a very simple premise but one I haven’t seen done in web comics before, our modern world is [...]

This isn’t really science, but it is kind of neat. Virgil Griffith scraped Facebook data for which books people picked as favorites and what college they attended and created a graph of which books are most likely to be associated with higher or lower SAT scores. He calls it Books That Make You Dumb. I [...]

So I got sent this by some of the Europeans at work. This is of course exactly what they think all Americans are like. I don’t mind, it make me look good.

Their day out was to end in unforgettable horror when a crocodile killed Brett, then returned to circle relentlessly beneath a tree in which the other two had taken refuge. This story is not new, but when Brett gets eaten by a croc, I pay attention. Also in croc news you have the heartwarming story [...]

An unusual auction is coming up of World War Two memorabilia that includes a prosthetic leg worn by Douglas Bader, one of the true heroes of the Second World War. Bader lost both legs in a plane crash before the war commenting ‘Crashed slow-rolling near ground. Bad show.‘ in his log but he kept fighting [...]

January 22nd: Today in 1879 the Imperial British Army suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of the army of Zulu King Cetshwayo at the Battle of Isandlwana. The battle was a complete disaster for the British force with an army of twelve hundred men completely destroyed in a field battle, something the British Army [...]

OK, if we aren’t going to play Savagely Beat The Lion then we can all sit back and play the most insane video game ever. From the Kafkaesque opening scene to the madness of the race itself to God as a race announcer this game looks positively nuts. If you want it you can get [...]

Where is the Chinese fortune cookie really from? Not from China but from Japan apparently. Neat story, apparently became popular during the Second World War so I can see why the Japanese history of it was quietly forgotten.

Last night we played Clue at my house. We could have been playing ‘Savagely Beat The Lion’. Via Broken Toys

One of my favorite (and probably apocryphal) stories about dumb criminals is about the guy who tried to rob the bank across the street from the FBI headquarters on payday. Supposedly the only people in the bank not armed were the tellers and the bank guard so the robbery did not go well. However, now [...]