A War of Words
Best Word Ever- The Final Brackets
64 words square off to find the best. Click through for results. Personally, I think both Hornswoggle and Kerfuffle got hosed.
Archive for the 'Weird' Category
Unit Cancellation is Weird
XKCD’s What If: Bird Droppings
Gas mileage is measured in square meters.
You can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it’ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer screen).
Unit cancellation is weird.
Now That's a Sticky Situation
Maple syrup heist baffles Quebec
Thieves in the Canadian province of Quebec may have pulled off the sweetest heist of all time, siphoning off a reservoir of maple syrup from a warehouse and cleverly covering up their caper to evade detection, an industry group said on Friday.
Taken From Us Too Soon
The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors
Like most cemeteries, the Flavor Graveyard attracts its share of mourners and other visitors.
“It’s not uncommon,” Greenwood says. “You walk up to the graveyard here, and there’ll be fans that are up here putting flowers next to a headstone, or down on one knee, kind of paying their respects.”
I’ve never seen that kind of dedication in a droid before.
Gettin' Social With It
Went to share a link on twitter, and the “share this” popup on the web page didn’t include it. So I clicked on the “more” button.
I had no idea. I’ve never heard of most of these.
Don't Try This With Cats
Outdoor Storage Lockers Keep Dogs Safe While You Shop
The Hundehiet (meaning Dog Den in Norwegian) was recently spotted by Henrick Eriksson outside a grocery store in Oslo, Norway. For just 10 Danish kroner (around $1.72 USD), you can keep your dog safe and dry in a storage unit while you go in and shop.
A similarly-themed feline enterprise run by Erwin Schrödinger had some customer service problems when only half of the inhabitants survived.
When Sand Castles are Not Enough
Billionaire sheikh carves his name in desert so big it can be seen from SPACE
The name is two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the “H”, the first “A” and part of the “M” have been made into waterways.