May 9, 2008
Teen Survives 25,000 Volt Shock - This lucky 16-year-old in England survived a massive electrical shock that burned his clothes off.
10 Fastest Growing Real Estate Markets - Think you still can’t make a buck in the housing “slump,” think again, CNN gives us 10 hot real restate markets.
The Six Scariest Real Estate Markets - Since we had the 10 fastest markets, lets look at the scariest ones thanks to MSNBC.
World’s Most Controversial Destinations - Concierge.com takes a look at 14 of the World’s most controversial vacation destinations, from China to Iran and Syria to Zimbabwe.
Victorian Porn - The Telegraph gives us an interesting look at one of photography’s oldest uses, porn. (NSFW)
Anteaters Wearing Sweaters - Can’t resist posting this because it is hilarious.
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May 9, 2008
This weeks Friday Factoids are focusing on the history of lotteries and some interesting facts about some winners.
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May 8, 2008
Hewing Jungles and Mountains for World’s Greatest Highway (Jun, 1934) - Modern Mechanix brings us an article from 1934 about the construction of the Pan-American Highway.
Colossal Castle or Humble Home? Same Price – Your Choice - Divine Caroline discusses what half or a million dollars will get you in some major US cities versus the rest of the world, I think I’ll move to France now.
Amazing pictures: The lightning storm that engulfed an erupting volcano - Great pictures from the Daily Mail of the volcano that is erupting in southern Chile.
How China gets its troops to stand to attention - Another nice article from the Daily Mail about how China gets its troops to stand at attention, by using pins and crosses.
The bone detective - Finally, we learn that more women are becoming forensic anthropologists than men, interesting shift.
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May 7, 2008
Space Shuttle Destruct Switch - NASA Prepared to Blow Up Discovery - “Each time the space shuttle rises from its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., an Air Force officer waits anxiously for the first 2 minutes to pass safely. If the spaceship were to veer off course and endanger a populated area, this range safety officer would bear the terrible responsibility of flipping a pair of switches under a stenciled panel reading “Flight Termination.” The first switch arms explosives on the shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters. Flipping the second switch would detonate them, destroying the shuttle and crew.”
Can We Return Man to the Moon? - Time takes a look at what we’ll need to do as a nation to get man back on the moon, including an interview with Gene Cernan and Alan Bean.
This can’t wait to be featured in a Monday Maniacs segment, so take a look at this sicko (INTERPOL and BBC) wanted for sexually abusing boys between six and ten years old.
Lessons In Electric Circuits - Need to learn something about electronics, check out this free course which covers just about everything.
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May 5, 2008
The New York Times has a great feature today about the cost of inflation and they did it all with an innovative and interactive graph. Check it out.
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March 21, 2008
This weeks Friday Factoids focuses on the top ten deadliest drugs according to an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine called “Serious Adverse Drug Events Reported to the Food and Drug Administration”. Drugs are listed next to their placement and the number of deaths between 1998 and 2005 is listed in parenthesis with the drugs common use underneath.
10. Etanercept (1,034)
Used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, I think I’m safe on this.
9. Risperidone (1,093)
Marketed in the US as Risperdal, this drug is commonly used as a treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, again I’m safe for now.
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March 18, 2008
Today I made the move to WordPress 2.5 RC1. I’ve been using the trunk version from SVN for a week or so on my test site and everything seemed to check out. Hopefully all the plugins continue to work on the live site, at least the theme didn’t break. But we’re looking to update that as well.
Version 2.5 adds quite a few new features, hopefully we can use the new image gallery features. But most of it is under the hood fixes. We’ll see and I’ll keep you updated.
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March 17, 2008
This week’s Monday Maniacs features John Wayne Gacy (aka Pogo the Clown and The Killer Clown). Between 1972 and 1978 Gacy raped and murdered 33 young men and boys, of those nine victims remain unidentified. Stay tuned after the article, page 2 contains the A&E Biography on John Wayne Gacy.
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March 16, 2008
This weeks comedian is one that many of the younger generations probably never heard of. I am speaking of Bill Dana.
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March 14, 2008
Today’s factoids about the United States Congress come to us from the Facts section on Harper’s Magazine’s website. I must say some of these were extremely surprising to me.
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