Category: Odd
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Strange beauty of derelict feats of engineering – Russia’s lost space shuttle program
Abandoned Remains of the Russian Space Shuttle Project Buran The images speak well for themselves. More at www.themysteryworld.com
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Blackadder meets iPad
Samuel Johnson “I hope, sir, that you are not using the world’s first dictionary iPad to look up rude words!” Edmund Blackadder “I wouldn’t be so hopeful. That’s what all the others will be used for.” Thanks to www.woostercollective.com and http://blog.rocketboom.com
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Guerilla signs on the tube
Annie Mole, the brains behind the Going Underground Blog has been collecting examples of Guerilla signs on the tube from her readers. Highlights include “For a more efficient service, please alight at the next stop where a team of heaveily drugged sloths will drag you to your destination” and “Peak hours may necessitate that you…
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Fontulicious
I like fonts, I’m not quite a typography nut, but I do appreciate the brilliant influence that typography can have on design. So this post is all about typography, looking at three quite different angles. 1 – Toast As well as typography, I love toast, hot taost with melted butter, mmmmm, the breakfast of choice…
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Mountain View
This made me laugh. Found by Swiss Miss, Neatorama and Chris Glass. August 7, 2009 My husband and I were exploring Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada, when we stopped for a timed picture of the two of us. We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take…
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Can you freeze cheese? And other important questions.
The people at Mashable have been busy. Busy seeing what google is really used for. They ask the important questions of “When will…” “Why is my g…” “Can I have a…” “Is it impossible to l…”, Why do…” “Can you…” “Where do…” “How does…” “Can Jes…” “Can go…” and let google answer them. Top 10 Funniest…
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From Baldock, it's retro text the nation
I like to listen to Adam and Joe, but I listen to the podcast, not the live show. I have never joined in on their text the nation feature but many have, and they have a special jingle for it which is impressively composed and sung by the two of them: Original jingle In last…
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Name that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I…
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Films that fans of Chavs would like
The text competition on Richard Bacon’s radio show last night – the winner was “Lidle Miss Sumshine”
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Yorkshire time
This clock was pointed out to me in a North Yorkshire pub called the Nags Head. It took me a second to work out what was unusual. The pub didn’t have a clock theme, the walls and ledges were filled with a mix of unusual and usual trinkets. They did serve a very good game…