boobs, creeps and ants

Olivia Hussey, the actress who played Juliet in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, wasn't legally able to attend the 18+ premiere due to its nudity, even though it was her breasts that were shown. (See the trivia section.)

Turns out there's a reason that creepy people give us the creeps.


pictures of ants being awesome.

Snow, llamas and apples

65 foot snow corridor in Japan. The pictures are awesome.

Guard llamas! Apparently they are very effective at protecting sheep from coyotes.

Make a puzzle out of an apple. Delight and amuse children.. or childlike friends :)

side note: google needs to stop pushing g+ integration into every single product. it makes stuff suck, and you cant force people to use your social network.

The Beatles refused to play segregated venues in 1964. Well, and after that too. But in the (US) South in 1964, that was a big deal.

Your excuse is invalid: First grader without hands wins penmanship award. No joke.

Scathing reviews of works now considered classic My favorite, about Fred Astaire: "“Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” –MGM Testing Director’s response to Astaire’s first screen test"


How child birth became industrialized.

This blog is barely off the ground, and I fear I will be taking a short hiatus sometime in the next few days. We're stripping/priming/painting our kitchen cabinets and dang does that take a lot of time. Not to mention we have way too many cabinets.

George Washington was voted Britain's greatest military enemy. Really Brits? Not Hitler?


10 cool bridges from around the world. well, you probably won't think they're all cool, but some definitely are.

videos!

one plain old link: Adult Lactose Tolerance is not an Advantageous Evolutionary Trait


the whole thing is a bit long, but still interesting




Excellent ad.

one last titanic post

Why do we love the Titanic?

The report, commissioned by the United Nations Conference on Happiness (yes, that exists), contains over a hundred pages of musings on world happiness. Here’s an ultra-abridged version of the findings.

Your fingers prune in water to help you grip stuff better.

Boy lost at 5 uses Google Maps 25 years later to find his family

oh those Europeans

Sweden's new gender neutral pronoun

Topless female duelists. In Victorian England.

Favorite quotes

These are a few quotes that I deeply enjoy.  Or more precisely that, for the most part, deeply amuse me.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

My ultimate goal is to reach a certain level of adulthood where I can afford to be a child.

We're all creepy and can't get girls. That's why we fight robots.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe, but that's not my style. What's done is done. I'm sure I had my reasons.

Seriously, go look at the first one.

Architectural Stationery Vignettes
Company stationery used to be way cooler, and feature a lot more buildings.  To wit:

The Titanic's Haute Heroine, The Countess of Rothes
...among the ship’s renowned, moneyed travelers, only the Countess was renowned and moneyed—and titled.

Why do old books smell?
admit it you've wondered.  posted by one of my favorite sites to look for old/obscure/out of print books at reasonable prices

Octopi are creepy

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/
TLDR: Octopi are smart, and terribly interesting even if you're kind of creeped out by living jello.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/11/hate-groups-associated-with-wal-mart-stores/ 
TLDR: The more Walmarts a county has, the more likely it is to have active hate groups.


http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/12/the-laroche-family-on-the-titanic/
TLDR: There were four black people on the Titantic,  two parents and their children.