Luddites and the Original Rage Against the Machine. The Industrial Revolution was bad news for a lot of people.
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The game Distopix is supposed to challenge your concentration and reaction time. I had fun playing it, but it kept running away from me!
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A cat gets a little too friendly while she’s licking her chihuahua friend. We all have to set personal boundaries.
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How Sir Ernest Shackleton saved the 27 men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915-16. “The greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.”
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The amazing Bickford, a robot built out of disposable razors! This is what you call cutting edge technology. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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Electoral maps for every US presidential election. Note how the red and blue states have flip-flopped over the past hundred years.
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The Haunted Hospital. Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been a TB hospital, a nursing home, a failed religious monument, and now a paranormal investigation site.