Overheard outside Starbucks:
There’s nothing like being in a room full of drunks throwing pointed objects.
Category: Strange World
Links: Ancient World, Eudora, Area 51
- Familiar yet alien ancient views of Earth – photorealistic simulations of the world as seen from space, millions of years ago.
- Back in 2006, Qualcomm effectively discontinued Eudora, though they sponsored a project to extend Mozilla Thunderbird with the look, feel, and some features of Eudora. I lost track of it over the years, but it turns out they finally released Eudora OSE last September…four years later.
- Revealed: How Area 51 Hid Secret Craft. Advanced designs by humans, of course, not alien ships.
That’s Not What I Said!
Things Google speech recognition came up with when I tried to search for “The Lost Bean” (an independent coffee place in Tustin):
- oh clock team
- the team
- zoloft 18
After three tries I gave up and searched for something else in the same strip mall. Oddly enough, it had no trouble figuring out Nieuport 17. 😕
Recalled Waste
Who would have thought that something called Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars would be bad for you?
Candy Dynamics Recalls Toxic Waste® brand Nuclear Sludge® Chew Bars
(via @ThisIsTrue. Originally linked to FDA recall release, link updated to point to NPR article. Apparently it was too much lead in the “hazardously sour” candy.)
Links: Coffee, D&D Advice, Paused Niagra Falls
Some interesting links I’ve encountered over the past week or two.
- Help! My Half-Elf is Pregnant! – The 11 strangest Dungeons and Dragons questions from the “Sage Advice” Column
- 15 things worth knowing about coffee by The Oatmeal.
- Photos: When Niagra Falls Ran Dry
Book a Day and Bogus Ads
How To Read a Book a Day by The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. (via @johannadc) – I don’t think this will work for the new Wheel of Time book.
Belly Button Lint and Bogus Ads – a marketer on refusing to participate in campaigns that mislead or flat-out lie about the product.
Links: 1.0 Releases, Sci-Fi and Science Fact, The Missile that Wasn’t
- Matt Mullenweg on Apple, WordPress & tech release strategy. 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number
- Robert J. Sawyer on the relationship between science fiction and science fact: The job of sci-fi isn’t to predict “THE future,” but “to suggest a smorgasbord of possible futures, so that society may choose the one it wants.”
- Mystery California missile turns out to be a contrail lit by sunset, seen almost end-on so that it looked vertical. The photo actually reminds me of a contrail I once saw.