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Miss Cellania
April 21st, 2008
by Miss Cellania - April 21, 2008 - 2:39 AM

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Worked Over and Overworked: An in-depth look at the decline in status and treatment of American workers. Job security, pay, and benefits are nothing like they were thirty years ago.
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20 Amazing And Unusual Weather Phenomena. #20 is just down the road from where I live.
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The EMD Safety Bracelet. It’s supposed to be an anti-hijacking device for airline passengers, but it most nearly resembles a pet-training aid.
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Burglar caught on camera stealing the first thing he sees. The masked bandit is a raccoon!
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The 7 Greatest Home Shopping Screw Ups of All Time. See classic videos of what can go wrong on live TV.
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We’ve seen data turned into music, but what would music look like turned into mathematical data? Music Has Its Own Geometry.
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Sharpie the manatee’s fin had to be amputated after he was tangled in fishing line. But he’s one of the lucky ones.
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Rhyolite, Nevada: not your typical ghost town. It went from 10,000 residents to only twenty in the span of 13 years.

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Comments (4)

  1. As long as we’re talking about unusual Nevada ghost towns, you should write about Palisades, Nevada. This town suffered through more shootouts, bank robberies, and Indian attacks than any other town in the west.

    When the Army found out that all these problems were staged to bring in tourists via train, they put a stop to it, and it quickly became the tamest (and eventually emptiest) town in the west.

    posted by gmsc on 4-21-2008 at 3:10 am

  2. Non-aqueous Rain:

    Rare and yet real, cases exist of rains of animals instead of water. This has occurred occasionally throughout history, from the Biblical times up to recent history. Meteorologists are still unsure of the cause.

    What utter non-sense. There is not a single verifiable source confirming there has ever been a “rain” which consisted of animals instead of water.

    posted by Florida on 4-21-2008 at 9:51 am

  3. Florida, it does happen but it is rare.
    Here are the first two paragraphs from a story called “How can it rain fish?” by Edward Green at BBC News dated August 20, 2004:

    The latest in a series of bizarre British weather phenomena is a rain of fish. It may sound like the stuff of legend, but such events are increasingly well documented.
    On Wednesday, the village of Knighton, in Powys, was reported to have endured such a fishy deluge. Not a story easily believed – an odd site for a Biblical-style plague, one might think, perhaps to be followed by the waters of the nearby River Teme running red with blood?

    posted by Sue on 4-21-2008 at 2:09 pm

  4. hey neighbor! #20 is about 30 miles down the road from where i live!!!

    posted by mad mike on 4-22-2008 at 4:20 am

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