A useful resource showing the different kinds of beer glasses (not goggles) from which one may enjoy the perfect food.
Somebody was being naughty in the UK. Actually, they were being “irresponsible†according to the spokeswoman for the company fixing the sewer that exploded because of a pair of knickers.
And for more tales of unfortunate explosions, try the Storyblogging Carnival.
As if I wasn’t already freaked out about flying, a report from University of New South Wales, Australia says pilots are being poisoned by their planes.
According to the lead researcher, Susan Michaelis:
Compressed air is routinely drawn off engines and supplied to aircraft cabins. If the seal inside the engine is not secure, engine oil can leak into the cabin and contaminating air with toxic tricresyl phosphate (TCP).
What? Compressed air is drawn off the engines? What engineer thought that was a good idea?
Now, if instead of engine oil there was some other kind of oil, that design decision might make more sense. You know what I’m talkin’ about, the kind that induces a desire for Twinkies and Doritos at three in the morning.
Then the passengers might not be as stressed about their toxic pilots.
Wellington’s frank presentation of facts to staff (June 17, 1815) –> slide 3More Bonny Fun:
Napoleon Headsquisher
The Lost PowerPoints (Napoleonic Edition)
The Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815 [wiki]
A few distractions for Father’s Day. I hope it’s as beautiful where you are as it is here in SW Ontario.
The originally organized and well-written Military History Carnival has some fine reading, including this thought-provoking (or perhaps just provocative) post on the myth of the English longbow.
And for a little furry fun, head over to the Friday Ark.
For a more insane diversion, may we present the excellent Carnival of the Insanities.
In 1933, Toulouse Le Grandfig disappeared.
To this day, no one has ever documented where he was or what he was actually doing, but it is worth noting that his collection of photos and stories, “The Land of the Future” was published the next year by Placenta Press (Paris). In his short autobiography, “Burning Monkey Tales”, he claimed that he travelled to the future, where he witnessed (and recorded) all kinds of wonders:
“After my morning grapefruit-and-sandpaper ablutions, it was customary for me to dogpaddle upstream to visit my ancient hominid ancestors in Paris. But on that particular day, I was caught in a maelstrom — a whirlpool of such savagery that my cufflinks all but ate my eyebrows — and I must have blacked out from the pain. When I awoke, I found myself in a world as alien as mustardseed ungulate pie … the Land of the Future.”
Of course, this was typical Grandfigian hyperbole, but there are still no satisfactory scientific explanation for how he came to take some of the photographs in this collection.
Our selection from this groundbreaking work includes the following:
Warrantee-Free! | The New Clone 12000 Helmet Finally Comes to Market | Truculent Guitar Blastocyte | Tonight on “Survivor: Sumo” | Nude Clanking Down a Staircase | Ancient Hominid Thawed! | E-nnui | Groin-eriffic! | Zoological Wonders from Planet Earth | Bathtime Follies | Bringing Good Things to Life | Red Juggernaut | Giganto-Schism | Greetings from Bonodminton | The Tragic Story of Larry and Wanda Pogo | Does your robot rule, so to speak? | A Mysterious Dream | Survival Tips for Tiny and Polite Humans | Joel and the Corporate Ziggurat | The Six Million Dollar Pleasure Borg | The Cannon
Credits:
Thank the good folks a Flickr for creating a ready source of artwork under the Creative Commons license, and in particular the following artists for allowing me to use their work under the Share Alike provisions: The Alieness GiselaGiardino | Abux77 | roBurky | sparktography | djwudi | monettenriquez | will pate | Alan Trotter | wintersweet | doc ido | balaam | Bjarte | Aune Olsen | litmuse | C!b0rg5 | SpooSa | Elsie Esq. | Chris Chappelear | jonhmuk | Dplanet | lhuiz | nabeel | scurzuzu | kingpest | tiptoe | mvandrew | squacco | crowolf | doctabu | jstar | blaster219 | Max Sparber | Kurainisei | misfitgirl
The 76th edition is here, and was it worth the wait. There is all kinds of satire in this week’s carnival, some delicately understated and some as subtle as a ball peen hammer to the head. We hope you enjoy it all (or at least survive it.)
Joe is looking forward to that day that Wal-Mart does Colonosopies. You can almost hear the Greeters snapping on the latex gloves!
Gavin R. Putland has an edgy satire in the Corporate solution to rape.
Ahistoricality found this uber-satire about autism, tasty citrus drinks, and cat-stroking evil geniuses: The pharma conspiracy acts against a threat.
Speaking of conspiracies, Jeremy has word of a Potatoey Plot.
Cato explains the source of his hunting prowess: “Everything I know about killing I learned from Tony Soprano”.
Taking catblogging to a new level, Alosyius discovered this short (3 min) film: A Puurfect Love. It’s set in Paris, but for some reason the human actors are Scandinavian. (It stars Jixie Junie, who is a cat, not a starlet from the “horizontal entertainment industry”).
Red Jenny is worried about the coming White Woman’s Burden.
Plebian has parsed the Life Cycle of Junk Science.
Um, you may not want to read this one, if you’re squeamish. Joseph Qelqoth has a political review of Margaret Thatcher. We’re still not quite sure how she was cooked, but it sounds kind of icky. Continue Reading →