Most of the time when you go to Cracker Barrel, you expect to find chicken fried steak and giant games of checkers… not your great-great-great grandmother. Sandra, a server at the Owensboro, Kentucky, store, was working and thinking about her recently deceased niece, Cammi Jo. She happened to glance up at one of the old-timey pictures decorating the wall and found Cammi Jo looking back at her. Struck by the uncanny resemblance, Sandra took a picture of the photo and sent it to her sister-in-law, Cammi Jo’s mom. After some research, they discovered that Cammi Jo’s lookalike – the woman holding the baby in the picture – was actually Sandra’s great-great-great-great grandmother, and the baby was Sandra’s great-great-great grandmother.

Cracker Barrel is working on getting the photo back to Sandra’s family.

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David Israel’s latest BoingBoing quiz: something that should tax even the hardest-core retrogamers. The subject: musical scores from arcade and video games by Namco, one of the golden-age greats from Japan.

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Our friends over at BoingBoing.net published my Video Game Quiz today. If you’re a hard-core gamer, or just like strolling through the short history of video games, take a walk down yonder and then come back and let us know how you did!

Our pals over at boingboing have just unveiled their latest masterboing: a full-page feature page. Kicking off the feature is our friend Maggie Koerth-Baker with an amazing post on NASA’s Cassini space probe.

In 1997, we aimed a rocket towards Saturn and sent a 13-foot-wide satellite off on a mission to explore the strange worlds in our own (relative) backyard. This month, NASA announced plans to extend the Cassini space probe’s Saturn sojourn until 2017—nine years longer than its original end date of 2008. Why, exactly, does Cassini need those extra years? Most people probably know the mission best for the spectacular space photography it’s produced. But NASA is hoping to get more than just a gallery of beautiful images out of extending the orbiter’s lifespan. Armed with an array of 12 instruments—more than twice the number of science tools included on normal missions—Cassini is sort of a Swiss Army Knife in the sky. As its mission continues, it will gather data that could help us pinpoint life-sustaining planets, or power our own with clean energy…

Read the full story and then drop Maggie a comment telling her what you think of the new full-page layout!

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