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Saturday, May 09, 2026
How the US Government Kept Oak Ridge Secret
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was founded as a secret nuclear research facility for the Manhattan Project. My mother's family lived in East Tennessee already, and my grandfather got a job as a day laborer in Oak Ridge. He didn't ask questions, because people who asked a lot of questions didn't last long there. (via Digg)
If you're interested in the history of Oak Ridge, you might want to read the story of John Hendrix, a mystic from East Tennessee who died in 1915. The story is not quite as believable as the video above, but it is interesting.
Gemini
This is Gemini. She's at the vet because she keeps flying away. Luckily it's just a harmless case of airplane ears. 12/10 (IG: apolloandgem)
— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) May 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Friday, May 08, 2026
Gandalf, the Chaos Goblin
Surely you recall Dave, the cat who suffers so. His sister Gandalf is one of the reasons, and now she gets her own Dodo profile. Still, they never explain how a girl kitten got the name Gandalf. Here is the family's Instagram gallery.
100 Years of David Attenborough
In honor of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, 60 Minutes Australia brings us an overview of his amazing broadcast career, including an interview from about ten years ago.
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Happy Birthday! Sir David Attenborough Turns 100 Years Old.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatens to flood New York City with ICE agents. How do you think they'll be received? (via Fark)
The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared. (via Metafilter)
One-A-Day Banana Packs. Solving a problem you didn't even know existed.
Stephen Colbert Floats His Presidential Campaign To Barack Obama.
Mittens in Space! (via Memo of the Air)
The Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Days That Shocked the World and Changed Britain Forever. The 1980 incident If you're an American under 50, you've probably never heard of it.
A Blast from the Past (2012): The Ultimate Gift, Saving Mom's Life.
Thursday, May 07, 2026
The Eerie Story That Inspired a Horror Show
Derek and Maria Broaddus bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2014. They immediately started renovations to get the house ready for they and their three children to move into, They also started getting eerie letters from an anonymous writer. The letters revealed that someone had them under surveillance, and intended to keep watching them. The letters continued and became more threatening, and the Broaddus family delayed moving in.
Their story was published on an internet blog in 2018, and was eventually made into a TV show, The Watcher, which ran for seven episodes in 2022. Weird History gives us the rundown on what happened and some speculation about why it happened. No perpetrator has ever been identified. But you might want to watch something a little more benign to clear your head after hearing what the Broaddus family went through.
The Edge of Destiny
Last week, Saturday Night Live had a skit that was supposedly a riff on 1980s nighttime soap operas. But it was really about the joy of seeing someone awkwardly being thrown down the stairs. It was just plain goofy. But even funnier is how they did it.
I''m glad they decided to share that with us.
Tech Woes
I ran across this old Bitstrips comic from back in the day. It's at least 15 years old, because that's when PAgent abandoned his blog. Bitstrips started in 2007. I can't recall what was wrong with my computer, but I had obviously written about it somewhere. It was probably obsolete. I can rarely get a computer to last more than five years, which is a darn shame. I have a vacuum cleaner that is 75 years old and works fine.
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