Leatherman Patent Invention
Slideshow with early designs of the original Leatherman tool.
ATMs in Antarctica: An Interview With Wells Fargo's David Parker
Penguins need banking too?
What.
“Runnin’ Rhino” - T-shirt by Allan Faustino
This has been making me smile all day.
Photocopier - how it was invented and how it works
I love seeing the inside of stuff like this. A photocopier is one thing I’ve never been allowed to take apart…
Jewel goes to a Karaoke Bar in disguise. Hijinks ensue.
AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON. Every wondered what an AT-AT’s day is like?
Hot on the Trail- The original camping stove.
Sugar Information explains how sugar won’t make you fat
Whew. Good to know!
laughtershock
n. an embarrassing memory from middle school that slips back into your head from out of nowhere, a fault line in the crust of passing years—whose ever-thickening strata warp and buckle between the pressures of this week and a mantle of forgotten things two thousand miles deep—which is part of a theory on the evolution of the self known as cafeteria plate tectonics.
Nick Patrick: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
I’d always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged…
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Westley, Trumpet Player
