Hugh says: "Tim Inklebarger describes hacking up a dead whale in his excellent 'I Lived in Alaska' column." In August 2004, a 28-ton juvenile humpback was struck by one of… Read the rest of the article: What is it like to cut up a whale?
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Mark Frauenfelder Video — Goofy is a smoking fiend in this old Disney cartoon. (Thanks, Mike!) Teen arrested for recording 20 second clip of Transformers "Jhannet Sejas readily admits she used her… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 8
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Mark Frauenfelder Ethan says: I went to Yankee Stadium last night and was surprised that everyone entering the stadium is asked if they have a cell phone. If yes, then they are… Read the rest of the article: Cell phones must be charged or no entry to Yankee Stadium
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Mark Frauenfelder In his Boston Globe Brainiac blog, Joshua Glenn takes New Yorker reviewer Anthony Lane to task for not knowing enough about science fiction. In his July 30 review of Sunshine,… Read the rest of the article: Josh Glenn reviews Anthony Lanes review of "Sunshine"
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Mark Frauenfelder From Tokyo Times: The Japanese habit of wearing masks during hay fever season may well be what created a fondness for such facial fashion amongst certain people, rather bizarrely resulting… Read the rest of the article: Face masks as fashion in Japan
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Mark Frauenfelder Speaking of Popeye, there's a just-released 4-DVD set of 60 Fleischer Brothers Popeye cartoons from 1933-1938. Cartoons don't get any better than this. Link
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Mark Frauenfelder Excellent cartoon in which Popeye is thrown into an anime universe. He becomes angry and confused and and beats up all the vomitously cute characters. Link
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Mark Frauenfelder Free ebook — The Janus Syndrome, by Steven E. McDonald. "A freewheeling intergalactic agent trained to troubleshoot the hot spots of space… wild escapades that find him fending off the… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 7
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Mark Frauenfelder Melissa Lafsky of Freakonomics interviewed Karen Abbot, author of Sin in the Second City, about the "Everleigh sisters, two madams who ran a famously high-class brothel on South Dearborn Street… Read the rest of the article: High priced prostitution trade in turn-of-the-century Chicago
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Mark Frauenfelder Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi has been writing about cartoon characters with personality. Today, he examines the appeal of Popeye. Here's the opposite of bland. Now I knew tons… Read the rest of the article: John K on un-bland cartoons
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Mark Frauenfelder The Rule the Web live podcast for today is canceled. I'm going to try to do it next Wednesday. Stay tuned!
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Mark Frauenfelder James Fallows narrates an Atlantic slideshow with photos from his trip to China, including a visit to a 7-story tall electronics bazaar with "thousands of little tiny vendors" selling every… Read the rest of the article: James Fallows at electronics market in ShenZhen
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Mark Frauenfelder This the only SFW image of a fetish toy called the Pussy Foot. The photos on the site are not safe for work. Pussy Foot is the ultimate fantasy sex… Read the rest of the article: Odd fetish toy: Pussy Foot
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Mark Frauenfelder Everybody loves peanuts etched with business card information (except people allergic to nuts) (Via Candy Addict) Video — MIT's undulating Hyposurface. Snarky comments about disgusting-looking retro food and fashion. (Thanks,… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 6
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Mark Frauenfelder The late underground cartoonist Vaughn Bode, who created a comic book universe about war-fighting machines, would have been interested in this military robot that's armed with a rifle and has… Read the rest of the article: Guns on robots
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Mark Frauenfelder My guest on today's live call-in Rule the Web show (using the awesome BlogTalkRadio system) is Richard Giles, co-founder of Scouta, the online content recommendation system. To listen to the… Read the rest of the article: Rule the Web show: Richard Giles, CANCELED
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Mark Frauenfelder Seems the RIAA has got to Archie too! The very first story in Archie #577 (September 2007) is a cautionary tale for kiddies called "Record Breaker" wherein all those leechers… Read the rest of the article: Archie becomes tool for the RIAA
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Mark Frauenfelder Andrew says: I'm not an engineer type at all (I could short out the power to my television by boiling water in another room), so forgive my explanation… I live… Read the rest of the article: DIY bike noisemaker
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Mark Frauenfelder Nomad4ever has a tutorial on how to avoid paying phony fines to crooked traffic cops in Bali. He lists several things you can do to save yourself from paying a… Read the rest of the article: Avoid paying corrupt traffic cops in Bali
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Mark Frauenfelder Concept cars of the past. (Via Neatorama) Video — 1961 Rural Civil Defense TV spots use marionettes. (Via Endless Parade of Excellence) How to wind a center-pull ball of yarn… Read the rest of the article: A surreal and supremely inane compendium of miscellaneous knowledge, Vol 5