Category: asides

Geekout! Photos of the preperation of the Space Shuttle for launch: scale here is ginormous. Sweet photos. (via)

Ford changes logo?: *checks date on post* dammit America, sif be so many hours behind. April fools is OVER. OVER.

Of Truth and Shame: Time (in 1947) on Mahatma Gandhi’s death: I was taking a look through the Time magazine archive, and wanted to see what some events were like being report just as they happened. Gandhi’s assassination is the one that struck me as particularly poignant.

Let me show you my pokemans muxtape.

Posts from International Association of Time Travelers Members’ Forum, 2104 *chuckles* (via)

An Albanian munitions depot has blown up during a dismantling exercise. As much as this is a tragedy – 5 confirmed dead, hundreds injured, property extensively damaged – there’s definitely some spectacular footage out of it. The main explosion blows the whole thing away.

Scott Adams asks a question which challenges your estimation skills: it’s things like these that make you realise the scary scale of numbers and how the human mind is limited in its perceptions.

This is me, every time.

Earthquake! I felt that! Trying to get to sleep, there was a slight feel of movement and the door &  mirror rattled. Initially thought it was a truck passing maybe, but it went on for a bit longer… cool :)