Tag Archives: weird shit
Perelman spiking
Enthusiasm is enjoying the biggest traffic spike in its existence. The new visitors are coming to see my post about Grigori Perelman, from nearly four years ago. The rush seems to have been prompted by Perelman’s non-collection of the Clay … more…
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
links for 2007-11-07: Helvetica, and two kinds of sphere
Strange Metal Orb found in Texas today’s mystery object (tags: weird-shit, Texas) The Official Typeface of the 20th Century Happy birthday Helvetica, 50 years old this week (via 3quarks) (tags: typography, Helvetica, design) Turning a Sphere Inside Out Seriously counter-intuitive … more…
links for 2007-11-05: Anomalist, BBC1 Controller
THE ANOMALIST A journal of anomalous phenomena. No RSS feed, which is pretty anomalous all by itself. (via Post Human Blues, I think…) (tags: paranormal weird news unexplained forteana) What price Putin or Murdoch as the next controller of BBC1? … more…
The May Day Mystery
Languagehat points to a most absorbing post at Varieties of Unreligious Experience (a blog of which I was previously ignorant) about just the kind of literary enigma we like best around here. Every year since 1981, more than once a … more…
Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps
strange maps has an interesting historical run-down, very light on the linkage, but easily remedied by pointing Wikipedia at “hollow earth“. I might have posted on this subject while I was reading the relevant passage in Against the Day, but … more…
China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation
China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which … more…
handsoap
handsoap Ew! (via blort)
God is… David Shayler!
David Shayler, darling of overweight right wing conspiracy nuts everywhere, is reported to have discovered that he truly is the Son of God. Yes, another one. He apparently made this claim in a televised interview for Channel 4 (page carries … more…
3 tonne meteorite stolen in Russia?
The following is being rewritten as Incontrovertible Fact at blogs all over the damn place just now: Russian police have been combing the northern Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for a three-tonne meteorite that disappeared from under the nose of its … more…