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Soviet electronics

The Soviet Digital Electronics Museum is pure gold for the gadget junkie.

Posted 2009/09/22 at 9:08am / electronics / oddities

Cheesy

What to do when the person you want to marry is allergic to grilled cheese. Euphemisms galore.

Posted 2009/06/07 at 11:48am / euphemisms / humor / oddities

Flood shuts Canadian archives

Flood shuts Canada’s national archives. The article states that the building has had 116 environmental incidents since 1988. Could just be me, but it seems like a stupid place to be storing important documents.

Posted 2008/05/21 at 12:23pm / oddities / stupidity

Electrocuting an Elephant

Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant.

Posted 2008/04/10 at 3:02pm / animals / oddities / videos

It’s all about the character widths

Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war.

Posted 2008/03/28 at 8:46am / music / oddities / typography

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