Near Nashville Tennessee just off I-65 one can see what may be the single most bizarre and unintentionally hilarious statue in the world, supposedly depicting Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Reportedly made of injection-molded fiberglass possibly covered with foil (though … Continue reading
I'm a huge fan of Gwyneth Paltrow and have been since Shakespeare in Love. She's one of the best things about the Iron Man movies, for just one other obvious example. She's a good actor with remarkable screen presence, and … Continue reading
Popular English comedian Peter Kay plays some easily misinterpreted song lyrics during a live show. (Some are mildly naughty, not suited for prime-time broadcast in the U.S.) Link: https://youtu.be/UMYorpYNMKc A little over five years ago I posted a link to … Continue reading
Reportedly seen on a bus in Hong Kong: You don't know where they've been. (I'd suggest washing them just in case.) by … Continue reading
This is just odd: The image is courtesy of the Engrish.com website, which posts something like this every day. The website credits the photo to Lindsay Powell. If you can't read the fine print above, the text under the product … Continue reading
Suppose you're designing a language course. All else being equal, you'd probably want to teach the most common words first, and there are a number of references you can check for that purpose. (For example, Wikipedia's page for the most … Continue reading
This video does a nice job of highlighting some weird aspects of human vision in just three minutes. Link: https://youtu.be/0NPH_udOOek This first oddness it mentions is the blind spot, a place on the retina devoid of imaging cells where the … Continue reading
Alton Brown, Stephen Colbert, and Science! Or engineering anyway: Link: https://youtu.be/wkHJgJeo7xQ "Any sufficiently commonplace magic will be deemed technology." -- Nimblespheres' Law by … Continue reading
Over the past six months or so I've heard a few mentions of this film, all of them reasonably favorable, so I finally decided to watch it. What we have here is a half-hour-long, intentionally over-the-top parody of 1980s Hollywood … Continue reading
A roundup of science news (link) on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show blog includes this rather disconcerting entry: The best new species discovered over the last year include skeletal sea dragons and giant carnivorous planets. I suspect that last word should … Continue reading