Find Someone Who Loves You Like this Cat Loves Ice Cream.
Landowner stunned to find $500K home accidentally built on her lot. Now she’s being sued. (via reddit)
Melting Polar Ice Sheets Are Slowing Earth’s Rotation. That Could Change How We Keep Time.
Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever. (via Kottke)
The Romantic Rivalry Behind Dolly Parton’s "Jolene."
Bollards: The Natural Enemy of the Automobile.
In the game Guess My RBG, you are challenged to find the RGB color value of the background by adjusting the red, green, and blue sliders until you are correct. You will not get it right on the first try, but you can use your incorrect guesses to get closer until you hit the mark. (via Metafilter)
This Japanese Village Is Filled With Hundreds of Dolls Posing Like Real People and They’re All Made by One Woman.
“She had intended to use the land for meditative healing women’s retreats.” It’s wrong they screwed up her lot and she absolutely must be compensated. However if they had built next door like they were supposed to, her lot would be sitting in the middle of a subdivision with 15 new homes plus any that were there already. Is a lot with no building in that situation conducive to “meditative healing women’s retreats”?
ReplyDeleteBetween 1972 and 1999 they added 23 “leap seconds” followed by another 4.
They loved it because that was extra time you worked that they didn’t pay you for.
But now they’re in a panic over seconds being removed that you don’t work but they must pay you for.
The Japs have some very strange cultures. Not like the US where everyone is normal. cough/choke/gasp