Working With Fishbones
Courtney Scott fills us in on the life of an archeology undergraduate. It's not perzackly like Lara Croft or Indiana Jones.
Works of Paper
Winning entries at MIT's origami competition. I can't even fold a sheet of paper into quarters, much less do anything like these.
World Clock
Click on the "year" button to indicate the data from the beginning of this year.
Click on the "month" button to indicate the data from the beginning of this month.
Click on the "day" button to indicate the data for today.
The "now" button shows data from a standing start.
Click on the "month" button to indicate the data from the beginning of this month.
Click on the "day" button to indicate the data for today.
The "now" button shows data from a standing start.
World's Best Concise Quotes
As my readers have probably sussed out, I love to quote. What's not to love? As Mark Twain said (probably—most really good quotes seem to be attributed to Twain, The Bible, Shakespeare, or Casablance), "I get paid the same word rate for quotes as I get paid to make things up."
World's Largest Capacitor?
Every time I passed the parts bin with this bad boy in it, I did a double take. Man, that's big!
World's Most Expensive Whiskies
Much to my surprise, I've actually tasted a few that made the list—a few of the cheapest, of course. And I'm not at all sure that Forbes is correct that Sazerac 18-year-old is the most expensive rye at $55. I believe that Old Potrero at $90/bottle has that honor.
Worst Case Scenario
Innocent children, scary music, a sense of overwhelming dread . . . and a sky full of reanimated zombies descending from balloons. What more could you ask of cinema?
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Worst Fast Food Idea Ever?
The competition's fierce, but KFC's new Famous Bowls just might take the, um, cake, according to Dan Neil.
Worth a Thousand Words
The Economist has an uncredited article about great">http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=1027… charts. They're all familiar to readers of Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantative Information, but they are great charts.
Would I Lie To You?
Huckleberry insists that he has no idea how those paper towels met such an unfortunate end. Oh who, oh who would do such a thing?