50 Fun And Surprisingly Insightful Maps. In which New Zealand wanders the globe.
The Original Survivor Island Changed Television Forever. But it wasn't easy.
America and Lake Cow Bacon. We barely escaped a scheme to import hippos to Louisiana.
It's time to walk the fish.
How a Brutal Beer War Led to the Downfall of the Brewery That Made Milwaukee Famous. Schlitz was a billion-dollar empire battling Budweiser to be No. 1. Then a bribery scandal—and a lot of foul, sludgy lager—took the company down. (via Metafilter)
Meet the lovely and talented Pepper, the first feline movie star!
Trump's mental decline is on vivid display as he rages about Epstein, windmills. (via Fark)
A gorgeous 122-year-old 10-bedroom, 7-bath mansion in California is listed for only $2 million. There has to be a catch somewhere- maybe it's haunted! (via Zillow Gone Wild)
A 1903 film featuring cheese mites shows how early cinema brought the concept of microscopy to the masses. (via Boing Boing)
Thought for the day: We were so broke when I was growing up that we went to KFC and licked somebody else's fingers.
Odd maps. They put New Zealand east of Australia.
ReplyDeleteOn one map they did, and that's where it should be. But on most, they put it west of Australia. On one map it is close to Japan, and in a few it is completely missing.
Delete50 Maps have Scandinavian countries as happiest and most depressed. Probably depends on how the earth is tilted at that season.
ReplyDeleteIs that a scale model walking the fish ?
ReplyDeleteIt seems only fair that if they insist on condensing the world to fit in their preselected page parameters, thereby forcing the entire population of New Zealand to basically become Australians, that they should then also relocate Alaska to somewhere near the Caribbean.
ReplyDeleteFairbanks summer temperatures would change a bit.
Ooh, ooh ... with those jigsaw like maps ... how if they do one with Florida on the west coast of the USA, and then the earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia, would send it's tsunami across the Pacific and a 3 metre (I don't know, about 10 foot maybe) ... a 3 metre high wave of cleansing would eradicate the orange juiced felon, right there on his throne (can I write shitter ?)
ReplyDeleteBut not hurt aanyone else, of course ... I'M not the monster
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