What’s in a VIN? How to decode the vehicle identification number, your car’s unique fingerprint.
Last hours of an organ donor. In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care. (via Nag on the Lake)
The Lowest Possible Score in Super Mario Bros.
Why the Westminster Dog Show Made Me Appreciate Mutts. (via Fark)
From toxic fungus to soy sauce superstar. Today the koji mold is a master fermenter, but it has a checkered past. (via Strange Company)
Scout Badges for the Middle-Aged. (via Nag on the Lake)
This guy spent five weeks in a hospital and lost so much weight his dog didn't recognize him. (via TYWKIWDBI)
Artist of the Week: A Janitor’s Mysterious Masterpiece.
3 comments:
Those public domain book covers are hilarious!
My first car was a 1976 Ford Pinto. My CB Handle was Fire Bomb. But I digress. I had to register that car in a whole bunch of a different places and it took the better part of a day. My last stop was at a State Office in Virginia and the woman at the counter asked for the VIN. I hadn't brought that paperwork in but I just rattled it off from memory. She was pretty surprised. Told her I'd been writing it down/saying it all day. And with that it was cemented into forever memory. I'd tell you what it is but I still occasionally use it as a password. Eleven (only 11!) random alphanumeric characters is pretty strong. It doesn't work on the VIN decoder in the article. Pre-1981...
Having an anesthetist for an organ harvesting was a little unnerving until it explained why... but still.
Mutts Rule !!!
I’ve been vaguely aware of the degendering of scouting where boy scouts and girl scouts has morphed to Scouts in order to level the playing field. I don’t care what they call the cookies I stuff my face with. However, “Scout Badges” leaves out the most important part... Merit. That’s the point of the badges, to show you earned the badge. It’s not a everybody gets one trophy. You earned it with extra effort in nagging your long suffering parents to drive you all over and buy materials.
xoxoxoBruce
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