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Fire in the Hole. Coal mine fires are burning in places all over the globe; some have been burning for decades. (via Metafilter)
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Top Ten Hippie Travel Destinations. I had no idea -but I’ll get my bag packed right away!
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Jalopnik asked its readers for suggestions on what vehicles would be best for surviving and traveling in a post-apocalyptic world. Nine existing vehicles and one semi-fictional vehicle were selected. (via the Presurfer)
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This is the time of year when you might want to start keeping up with Santa Claus’ blog. That is, if you haven’t been following him all along.
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Points for you if you understand this physics-based bumper sticker. Explanations are in the comments.
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Cats turn Shakespeare’s tragedies into comedies! Almost all of them -they don’t really seem to care for King Lear.
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Catching Up With The Plague. Using the disease as a weapon of war is an idea that goes way back.
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The joke is about the phenomenon called “blue shift,” wherein the light bouncing off an object is shifted to a higher wavelength (toward the blue end of the spectrum) because it is moving towards the observer. Or in the case of a tailgater, the observer is moving towards it. The opposite phenomenon , when the light shifts to the red end of the spectrum because it the object is moving away from the observer, is called red shift.
posted by Zach on 11-30-2009 at 7:45 am
LOL cats are not normally my cup of tea. but that one was HI-larious!!!
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posted by mri on 11-30-2009 at 10:22 am
The guys who work in planetary science have their spin on that bumper sticker- “If Mars is blue, you’re landing too fast”
posted by Jim on 11-30-2009 at 11:29 am
Love the Santa Claus blog! I’ve already added it to the many I follow.
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posted by tinkerschnitzel on 11-30-2009 at 2:38 pm