Whenever I find a link that I’d like to blog about, I open it in its own tab, and leave it there, waiting for me. Normally, I think about it for a little while, maybe find some pictures or other articles to go with, do a write-up, and post it to the blog.
But sometimes, I just don’t get around to something for a long while, and it stays open in its lonely little tab, waiting for me. I have too many of those tabs open right now, and I think my vintage Windows computer could use a reboot.
Sure, I could save them all as bookmarks, and then eventually I’d find them and blog about them in the future, maybe, but I thought I would just do a big post with several links all in one, and hopefully I can move on to more ideas in the futures.
Read more after the jump:
1.The low road to humour
Everyone’s seen this road sign of Dildo, Newfoundland, right? And had a good chuckle? (Do a Google images search for “Dildo Newfoundland” for a bunch more related signs.) Well, as often happens, the Brits do us one better, with Penistone, Butt Hole Road, and Pratt’s Bottom, all featured in this story.
2. The bees’ needs
Image from Flickr user calafellvalo.
When I posted about “Honey Laundering” I gave some thought to talking about Colony Collapse Disorder, which is decimating hives across the United States. For some reason, hives just die — completely. And since bees (hard-working migrant labour, if you didn’t know) are absolutely necessary for pollination and therefore for fruit and vegetable production, humans could be screwed out of a lot more than just honey.
This interesting article argues that by carving out small wilderness areas in our over-built urban and suburban wastelands, or by leaving some semi-natural spaces in the midst of rural monoculture, thehighly adaptive bees could manage on their own, wild, quite well.
3. Napster can embarrass you still
Remember when Napster was all the rage, because you could just download anything you wanted from anyone else’s computer? Well, it turns out that if you did the right searches, you could also download the random stuff that people recorded themselves as they experiemented with computer microphones.
4. Thanks be to God
Unlike many rappers or athletes, Sir David Attenborough does not credit God during his documentaries:
Telling the magazine that he was asked why he did not give “credit” to God, Attenborough added: “They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”
5. Large funerals no problem!
This crazy webpage is devoted to chronicling cemeteries that are surrounded by parking lots.
And here’s in Brandon, surrounded on three sides by mall parking, and on the fourth by a busy thoroughfare. It’s bigger from the air than I thought it would be — almost dwarfs the mall.
6. Back and to the left
The original generational shift in the White House — John F. Kennedy — would be in his 90s if he were still around. Take a look at what might have been.
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