The Weekly Weird - 2015-08-21
- Think about a Shakespearean play. Imagine the accent of the performers. Here's the best current guess at what the original pronunciation might have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FF5K8VlcRI#t=41m40s (The whole thing is interesting but it's also an hour and a half long so...)
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Fire bombers:
- Sometimes there's just nobody else close with enough water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZkV64GJihA
- You gotta get that water /somewhere/: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qtZy4A5W0Q
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What do you do when a foreign power is in a position to take over one of your states? Muck up some dollars: http://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/08/21/hawaii-overprint-notes/
- Ever wonder what those diamonds on trucks mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFPA_704
- With that context: https://i.imgur.com/EmmRHo3.png
- "Three sheets to the wind" doesn't quite mean what you think it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_%28sailing%29#Three_sheets_to_the_wind
- SMBC is great: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3831
- Also the author's brother is now the cto of reddit.
- I won't pretend that I'm following this but there's quite a lot of drama around Bitcoin lately. https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066118
- Who saved the most lives in history? http://scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=258&Itemid=27
- Ever wonder what's under the water around here? http://nymag.com/news/features/56609/
- The chinese symbol for poop is 屎 which is made up of 尸 meaning corpse and 米 meaning rice
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html#wtf%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Throwable%29
- Ramez Naam (author of Nexus which I recommend) has been writing a good bit about solar energy: http://rameznaam.com/2015/08/10/how-cheap-can-solar-get-very-cheap-indeed/
