One of my many secret vices is NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! [Read more…]
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All the unbuffered error messages
One of my many secret vices is NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! [Read more…]
It doesn’t have a bayonet mount, so it’s hardly usable.
There are a bunch of videos of this on youtube; they started showing up in my feed around the time when I was hunting for wire rope for damascus-making.
Alec Steele is a young British blacksmith who does charming videos about his adventures with making stuff. He and Ford Hallam are single-handedly changing my attitude toward youtube; it’s not entirely a cess-pit: it’s what we take from it.
These stories may have appeared elsewhere in comments I’ve made, but why not pull them into a posting of their own?
[Warning: Bees] [Is Apiphobia a thing? I’m going to assume it is]
This is via Atlas Obscura, which is a must-read if you’re a nexus of weirdness. [atl]
Andrew M emailed me with a strange factoid.
[Warning: Giant Spiders, Giant Hydraulic Spiders]
Street Theater’s a risky business – sometimes you can enthrall a crowd and pull them in and everyone puts down what they’re doing and watches and enjoys – other times you create a traffic jam and hard feelings.
One of the many podcasts I follow is Adam Savage’s Untitled, the Adam Savage Project. It’s pretty good when he gets started on film-making or special effects, and sometimes it’s really interesting.