Saint Valentine. Patron saint of engaged couples, bee keepers, plague and travellers. Martyred by the Romans around 270, and buried north of Rome. Nothing else is known. He…
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One of my christmas presents this year was this a papercraft penguin. This weekend just past I found the couple of hours to make the thing, and here…
Via [Washington Monthly](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_01/010565.php) is this unbelievably strange [story in the Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1990795,00.html): > Britain and France talked about a "union" in the 1950s, even discussing the possibility of the…
ABC News Online: One of the world's biggest manufacturers of condoms is targeting New Zealand to test its new range of products because the people there are apparently…
As people who've heard me complain know, I often refer to the enormous four wheel drive vehicles cluttering our roads as 'Land Yachts', to reflect the pointless ostentation…
There are some very strange things in the world, but these Cold War Unicorns take the cake. That said, I'm strangely tempted by this:
From MSNBC.com: The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank†on its new notes, officials said Wednesday. Hee hee hee! Although, has anyone checked our bank notes…
A quick primer for beginners: Yes, genocide: the premidated, state mediated murder of over 5.7 million members of a single ethnic group. No, not genocide: criticising $350 million…
I've made up a fun new game to play on Wikipedia, called Wiki-nteering. First, you decide on an article that's the target (let's say the orienteering page). Then…