Entries Tagged 'Curiosities' ↓

if you win a million bucks on a TV show that 20 million people watched, live, it’s a good idea to report the winnings to the IRS!

Shut Up Already. A PDF you can download, print, and then give to all those loud-cellphone-talkers who try and take up as much space as possible with their inane conversations. From Aaron Draplin and Jim and Heidi Coudal.

Ed Bilodeau has posted an excerpt from a 1928 Professional Ethics article. As he says, “how things have changed.”

first non-government-sponsored (aka private) space launch. See them at the Alan’s Mojave Airport Weblog.

, the UK 1901 Census site would probably be pretty cool. My grandmother wasn’t born until 1903 (though I should confirm that) but my great grandparents lived, I believe, in London at the time. Hopefully they’ll figure out their site load issues quickly.

! “Canadian police, taking advantage of sweeping new anti-terrorism legislation, arrested Santa Claus on Monday on the grounds that he had a beard, was behaving suspiciously and, in all likelihood, belonged to a underground cell.”