Miss Cellania's Blog Posts
This place, supposedly an information center, needs a motto: “You got questions? We’ve got question marks!†Found at Bits and Pieces.
You’ve seen some of these animals here and there; you’ve even seen some on Neatorama. Here are 24 of the world’s strangest creatures all together, with a bit of explanation about each. This one? It’s a bunny rabbit. Link -via the Presurfer
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially to someone who needs to use the facilities and doesn’t know the local language. Here’s a collection of clever male and female door signs from around the world. Link -via the Presurfer
These photographs of rocks that look like faces are pretty weird, but the last one is just amazing! Link -via Dump Trumpet
Matt Bailey uses Star Trek to teach analytics. In this example, he tackles the “red shirt†phenomenon. Part of his data:
* Yellow-shirt crewperson deaths: 6 (10%)
* Blue-Shirt crewperson deaths: 5 (8 %)
* Engineering smock crewperson deaths: 4
* Red-Shirt crewperson deaths: 43 (73%)
So, the basic segmentation of factors allows us to confirm that red-shirted crewmembers died more than any other crewmembers on the original Star Trek series.
He then goes into an in-depth analysis, with the conclusion that red shirts are more likely to survive when Captain Kirk finds a love interest. Link -via Metafilter
The results of San Jose State University's 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are in. Jim Gleason of Wisconsin beat out thousands of entrants for the honor of having written the worst opening sentence for a novel. Here’s his entry:
The runners-up and the winners in various subcategories are also amazingly convoluted. The contest has been held every year since 1982, and was named in honor of notoriously bad writer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Link
Gerald began--but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash--to pee.
The runners-up and the winners in various subcategories are also amazingly convoluted. The contest has been held every year since 1982, and was named in honor of notoriously bad writer Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Link
Rapunzel’s Delight has resources and advice for those with or trying to achieve long hair. But the image galleries are the real treasure! Link -via Ursi’s Blog
37-year-old Jamie Andrew will attempt a one-man triathlon this weekend to benefit his new charity 500 Miles, which seeks to provide services for amputees worldwide. Based on the Iron Man Triathlon, he calls it the Titanium Man Triathlon, after the material in his prosthetic legs. Andrew is a quadruple amputee. He will swim 2.4 miles (without artificial limbs), cycle 112 miles, and run 26.2 miles. Push play or go to Live Leak.
Link to story. -via Arbroath
Krystyna Zbyszynska became the oldest skydiver in Poland over the weekend when she made her first jump. Reuters reports she is 84 years old; Polish news reports identify her as being 82. Either way, it’s an impressive feat. But Zbyszynska is no ordinary octagenarian.
Zbyszynska says she will jump again when she turns 100. Link -via Fark
"I survived World War Two and wasn't afraid, so what's there to be afraid of now?" she said after clambering out of her jumpsuit this weekend.
Zbyszynska says she will jump again when she turns 100. Link -via Fark
Guest blogger Joshua Hill has posted an article about bridges at Dark Roasted Blend. It’s not a list of world records or new designs, but several bridges that have interesting stories, such as the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in England. Link
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