Gold Coins – The Mystery of the Double Eagle: utterly fascinating.
8/29/2011
8/25/2011
8/24/2011
Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes: his impact on computing cannot be overstated. Also, watch his Stanford commencement speech for more inspiration.
The Mindset List: 2015 List: man, I feel old. {via}
Urban Dictionary – get an inbox: very useful term.
Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head. As she dies at 98, the extraordinary story of the real Charlotte Gray: quite the headline. The film adaptation is available on Netflix streaming.
8/23/2011
Scientists undo evolution to create a chicken with a maniraptora ‘snout’: not allowed “for ethical reasons” to hatch the animal?! Come on, maybe it’s delicious! {via}
Hangman’s Rope: read the reviews. Also, if you search for “noose” on Amazon, you get another way to kill yourself.
How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela: the proper response to a dictator trying to get his inflation hedge as he simultaneously tries to wreck his economy? “The gold stays put.”
8/14/2011
Fuck You Yelper: amen!
8/5/2011
Things That Look Like Other Things: neat stuff. {via}