Friday, May 11, 2012

Mis Cellania's Links

 Dark Shadows Really Was Dark…Once. It was the Twilight of the 1960s.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been granted Swiss citizenship. Was it the tax laws or the mandated health care insurance?

Lies Told About Caramelizing Onions. (via Metafilter, where you can find a lengthy but helpful discussion on onions)

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine.

"Perhaps because the Bible ignores same-sex female relations, or maybe because men cannot imagine that women could experience sexual pleasure without them, lesbian relations have been given inconsistent treatment by the law."

I never could reconcile the stories my mother told of churning milk to separate the butter from the buttermilk with the ghastly buttermilk available at the grocery. How could milk go sour just by taking the fat out of it?

The Ten Most Famous Double Agents. Playing for both sides makes a good story, but you might not live to tell it.

In the movie The Avengers, New York City hosts a battle between good and evil. A disaster-cost prediction and assessment firm calculated the cost of the damage in real-world dollars.


Scenes from Finals Week. No, you're not the only one going insane, and it will all be over... eventually.

Laura had an unusual ring-bearer at her wedding: the Dragon Runner unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). You may recognize the little guy as a bomb-disposal robot.

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