92 posts tagged “weird”
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Purple squirrel baffles experts A purple squirrel which appeared at a school has baffled experts who are unable to explain its colour. It's thought that it may have got into some old print cartridges... |
Hello Vox,
I realise I don't post here much, too little time and brain matter. Even on LJ most of my alleged posts are actually concatenations of the day's tweets pushed there via LoudTwitter. So probably one of my resolutions should be post more! but what :P I think I should try, on a weekly basis, to blog seriously. OK, maybe not serious posts necessarily but actually try to connect and say something other than 'here are my tweets' and 'oooh, cute link'. Let us see. (although I do have things set up so posting to Vox pushes a link to Twitter! Sad geek girl, very sad geek girl!)
However, I will still post / repost links and weird stuff because, well, I love them!
Like this stuff:
Boy with nazi leader's name denied ShopRite cake Mr & Mrs Campbell's three children are JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, Adolph Hitler and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie (Hinler = Himmler).
About.com / 2008's Top Weird News Stories I have actually missed a couple of these!
Listverse.com / Top 10 unusual cooking concepts *drools*
BBC / Legal papers served via Facebook ~ Does anyone else get creeped out by the eye image used for Facebook? It is the fact that the word Facebook is NOT reversed on the eye ball.
The quirk? She lives aboard the QE2 for £3,500 a month!
The woman who lives on the QE2 ~ In 1999 Mrs Muller's husband of 57 years died on the QE2 as the ship sailed out of Bombay.
Nine months later she moved into a cabin on the legendary 67,000-tonne liner - with an average speed of 24.75 knots it is probably the world's fastest retirement home.
She does not plan to return to dry land however once the QE2 gets to Dubai.
Or why not to bootlegging buying of movies!
episode iii, the backstroke of the west - a direct English translation of the Chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being 'far far away'....
Diet Coke blasts off ~ Capital EX crowds are being entertained this week with "pyrotechnics" that use little more than Diet Coke and Mentos mints
Ex-con sues AmEx, says it aided in his arrest ~ Hmmm, so sorry for this guy.. NOT: A disbarred Manhattan lawyer who pleaded guilty to statutory rape has sued American Express for giving police credit card information which he says led to his 2006 capture in Grimsby, Ont.
R.I. cops arrest man with 0.491 blood alcohol level ~ A breath test showed blood alcohol readings of 0.489 per cent, followed by 0.491, O'Donnell said, the highest readings state officials could remember for someone who didn't end up dead.
A man who tried to fake his own kidnap and murder was found out when he failed to attach enough helium balloons to the gun he used to shoot himself with.
Copying an episode of hit TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Thomas Hickman tied helium balloons to the gun so it would float away and look like someone else had done it.
11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy ~ some of these are AWSOME!
7-movies-based-on-true-story-that-are-complete-bullshit
5-most-baffling-explosions-in-movie-history
5-terrible-life-lessons-hollywood-loves-teach-you
5-most-absurd-superhero-origins
5-most-unintentionally-scarring-80s-music-videos ~ this one mentions Tesla!
Bah! to being girly. I am vaugely looking at a laptop type thing. Part of me wants a net-book, one of the small ones like the Asus eee pc? But Hubbie is tempting me with a big laptop. Specifically this Dell Inspiron 1525 because it comes in cute colours. Very cute colours. Why must I like cute stuff?
Explosions. Bunsen burners. Adoring crowds in evening dress - or school uniform - eyes wide with wonderment. Can we recapture the excitement of science, asks historian Lisa Jardine.
"The occasion was one of the Institution's celebrated Friday evening discourses, a fashionable event for which those who attended were expected to don full evening dress, and which caused such congestion on Piccadilly that Albemarle Street, on which the Institution stands, had to be designated the first one-way street in London, to cope with the crush of carriages.
The Curies were the scientific stars of the moment: everyone in London wanted to meet them. In the packed theatre, eminent scientists rubbed shoulders with leading members of London's high society, craning their necks in anticipation."
I love science, the magic and mystery that logic seems to explain yet, yet, the veil still lingers over so much. Modern quantum science closer to alchemy than many would like to know, biology still with so many questions to answer, so many questions to seek.
*sigh* Of course, I hated Chemistry but loved both Physics & Biology: the former hampered by my very poor maths and the latter my Uni subject.
To recapture the fascination would be wonderful :)
