More oddities spotted in the news

[robkelk]

Cosmic Girl, take me partway to space!

Okay, okay: "Virgin Orbit rocket launches into space from a plane"

[robkelk]

Today is National Popcorn Day in Canada.

[robkelk]

Dead man teaching

No, literally. Concordia University is using online courses given by a professor who passed away in 2019.

[robkelk]

Mystery guest takes over Jasper Park Lodge — the entire hotel — for 9-week booking

Political retreat? Film shoot? Really reclusive billionaire? The hotel won't say.


EDIT: But the renter will... when they announced they're not filming a season of The Bachelorette there after all because of COVID-19 travel restrictions.

[Labster]

Japanese submarine collides with commercial ship while surfacing in Pacific

The Chinese freighter was undamaged. The Sōryū had to limp back to port without communications or the ability to dive. Things are not looking good for the next cold war.

[robkelk]

Why search engines are bad for the Internet

[Bob Schroeck]

The CW has ordered a pilot for a live-action Powerpuff Girls adaptation. In which they're disillusioned twenty-somethings.

[Norgarth]

Oklahoma alligators frozen in water with just their snouts sticking out.
https://www.abc12.com/2021/02/18/oklahom...Svul_F3Hgw

[classicdrogn]

Oct. 7, 2014
What You Might Not Know About ‘Getting Roofied’
By Jordan Kisner

Not as informative as the title suggests, but has several interesting points.

[robkelk]

Now that's a BFG!

Spoiler

"Big Forest Guitar", of course. What did you think BFG meant?

[Dartz]

If you ever wanted to know the meaning of the phrase 'stocking of shite' please click here

Buying a pub, just so you can bar the man you assaulted and had to apologise to from drinking there.

That's a proper 12 on the cunt scale.

[Jinx999]

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/...s-77347282

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/...-vaccines/

A Florida school has forbidden its Teachers from getting vaccinated.

Why are people who consider themselves to be independent thinkers so gullible?

[robkelk]

Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs... Everywhere in downtown Listowel, at least. And they're at war.

[robkelk]

If I was a betting man, I'd bet that this link won't be very popular on this particular forum.

Think reading means you're smart? Think again

Set aside an hour to listen to the entire episode.

[Star Ranger4]

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Not sure if I should claim you were right or wrong, but based on the general forum criteria... totally food for thought.

[robkelk]

AP: Top of famed Darwin's Arch off the Galapagos collapses

[robkelk]

The Register: New IETF draft reveals Egyptians invented pyramids to sharpen razor blades

tl;dr: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) drafts are not normative.

Unlike most IETF efforts, this document is not embarrassed to clearly state that we are simply stuffing more stuff in while we have the editor open.

[robkelk]

Engineers are figuring out how to make the Golden Gate Bridge stop humming

No word on whether they plan to teach it the words.

[Inquisitive Raven]

At least it isn't dancing:
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[Norgarth]

exapining Saturn's core by looking at wobbles in it's rings

[robkelk]

Today is National Hamburger Day! (In Canada!)

Here's an article about different kinds of hamburgers (or equivalents).

[robkelk]

We have all tried to impersonate the superhero character in our lives, but one man in Brazil tried just too hard to be the real Superman, only to fail miserably.

Superman can stop a bus with one hand. You can't.

[Bob Schroeck]

Sounds like an entry under real life on "Bare-Handed Truck Stop" over at ATT... marked as "averted".

[robkelk]

Auto scrapyard a mecca for photographers

Unlike most commercial auto recyclers, the Eastern Ontario Boneyard, 80 kilometres south of downtown Ottawa near Highway 401 and the St. Lawrence River, has gone out of its way to to save historically interesting cars from the crusher, holding onto hundreds of classic and unusual autos since the 1960s.

With more than 400 decaying vintage automobiles spread across 20 hectares, the site has become a mecca for photographers, with an esthetic somewhere between haunting and enchanting.

That means most visitors today are more likely to be looking for a photograph of a '56 Chevy than a windshield for one.

Photography on "designated days" only.

Pointer on Google Maps

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