Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Miss Cellania's Links

The Story Behind the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb. The article includes cottage from a Soviet documentary about the bomb. (via Digg)

The Eye Test. Stay to the end, it's not long.

An Oral History of Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and other Monster Cereals.

Bird of the Year Again Stirs Controversy: the Winner is a Bat.  (via Metafilter)

Fed up with the job search, a software engineer created a ridiculous fake resume and got a 90% response rate. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to get through the screening software.

A Look at The Book of Boba Fett.

Dog is Honored for Saving More Than 100 Koalas.

Woman billed $700 after sitting in ER waiting room for 7 hours, leaving without treatment. (via Boing Boing)

20 Words Merriam-Webster Is Adding to the Dictionary in 2021.

A blast from the past (2018): 13 weird ways we amused ourselves as kids.


3 comments:

xoxoxoBruce said...

Tsar was bada-boom, Big bada-boom.
I guess birds and bats look alike when you live upside down.
I still wonder how to do a Daisy chain HOOK method.

gwdMaine said...

Since tran-species now seems to be a thing in New Zealand, I nominate the Skink Lizard for next year's BOTY.

Anonymous said...

> I nominate the Skink Lizard for next year's BOTY.

I nominate that hottie Prime Minister they have down there.