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

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.