The Weekly Weird - 2015-06-26
Oh boy do we have some weird for you this week.
- I don't think I can improve on the URL to this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1517884/Man-to-adopt-1000-in-revenge-on-Berlin.html
- Now this is dedication to a con: http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/carlos-henrique-kaiser-the-story-of-footballs-greatest-conman
- I may have already included this but it's good enough that I don't care. "Lateral thinking" questions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/02/14/what-would-feynman-do.aspx
- What month you're born in has a statistically significant effect on your likelihood to develop certain conditions. This is an impressive breakdown of all of the different ones: http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/06/01/jamia.ocv046
- Pushing the boundaries of starch-based security vulnerabilities: https://www.tau.ac.il/\~tromer/radioexp/ I look forward to a countermeasure called ATKINS.
- "Zero-point-six-eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity." http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/26/google-delphi-two-self-driving-cars-near-miss
- Turns out the jokes in Seinfeld aren't very funny in foreign languages. (Or English /rimshot) http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/24/8809723/jerry-seinfeld-tv-show-international-translation