@Croccydile: Unfortunately, nobody seems agree what the majority of silent films should be played back at, since there was no hard standard for several decades.

Why not play it back at whatever speed makes it look natural? No one watching it cares about fps; it's just distracting to have it play back unnaturally fast. Viewers have an intuitive sense of how things "ought" to naturally look, in terms of gravity and momentum and such, and it's the distortion of that that makes it disconcerting to watch.

I don't think it would be terribly difficult to get "close enough" to natural speed, at least so it wouldn't draw attention to itself. But then I've never tried, so maybe I'm wrong.

From the article:

By some estimates, over 100 million sharks a year are killed for their fins.

I find this very difficult to believe.

The lighted tires (#12) are COMPLETELY AWESOME.

This is really cool! I wonder, though: Why does old motion picture footage run so fast? Is it terribly difficult to slow it down to a more natural-looking speed?

That Mugabe just keeps on dictatin'.

seefish3: Exactly right. A person can take ANY video clip, slow it down and add serious music, and presto: Now it's all profound and "poignant." It's a cheat.

Catskill, I don't know how the Florida lottery works, but maybe the odds are better in the Bulgarian one because they're picking six numbers from a smaller range? Like picking six numbers from 1-45 instead of 1-50 or so? Just a guess.

Skipweasel, here's another way to think of it: Suppose there are 5 million possible number combinations in a particular lottery. No matter what combination of six numbers comes up one day, the numbers the following day have a one-in-five-million chance of being the same.

Sounds a little familiar: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120654/

If someone were rigging the lottery, they'd be incredibly stupid to rig it to pick the same numbers twice in a row. I vote for coincidence.

I think we can all sleep a little easier at night, secure in the knowledge that Herzogenaurach is reunited.

Ta Prohm has been on my list of must-see sites for years.

A predatory bird with a 14-foot wingspan and pelvis-crushing talons is like a vision straight out of my nightmares. Eesh.

That picture is heartbreaking.

I've seen mammatus clouds a few times. The first time was in the desert near Tucson; not long after they appeared the sky opened up and some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen came down. It was eerie.

Or maybe it's planning to evolve a few more legs and go on a killing rampage.