Nalgene, forever! Or not. Over at Grist, Umbra makes a case against Nalgene bottles. (Although the column is actually a clarification of an earlier column, so if you’re new to the Nalgene question, you may want to do a little reading.) How about Orangene? A research team at Cornell has apparently discovered a way to […]
The Year In Cryptozoology
Just FYI. The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2004 (via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on January 4, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-year-in-cryptozoology/
The Year In Weird
Via AFP, Yahoo! has a summary of offbeat stories from 2004. Go; read and be merry.
Posted by Ben on December 23, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-year-in-weird/
Not that kind of luck
This would be utterly laughable, if not for the fact that it’s, what’s the word, frightening? Somewhere in the world, there’s a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket. Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger’s bag as […]
Posted by Ben on December 21, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/not-that-kind-of-luck/
I always hate it when that happens
Three hooded bandits in eastern Australia bungled a would-be robbery when they apparently mistook a restaurant’s sliding door for a swinging one, police said. (AP: “Eatery’s sliding door foils would-be bandits”)
Posted by Ben on December 13, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/i-always-hate-it-when-that-happens/
Dead Rich
When you read the SEC filings as regularly as I do, you come across all sorts of crazy names that companies use to describe various payments to top executives. But last week, I stumbled across a new one: a death retention bonus. Retention bonuses, which have become increasingly popular, are theoretically used to keep an […]
Posted by Ben on December 13, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/dead-rich/
No kidding?
It wasn’t exactly the perfect getaway vehicle. A man took off on a lawnmower moments after he allegedly threw two Molotov cocktails at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment building, police said. He was arrested Saturday night after a brief, slow-speed chase. (AP: “Lawnmower-Riding Man Captured After Chase” [December 7, 2004])
Posted by Ben on December 9, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/no-kidding/
Rundown, In Brief
Prisons are America’s “primary supplier of mental-health services.”1 Make a face. Change it. Craft your new identity. Morphases.2 Dolphins and humans are fairly similar, brain-wise.3 Struwwelpeter/Shockheaded Peter, online.4 Tired of original speech? Cliche Finder to the rescue.5 “I think that it could be done.”6 Send me your brains. Sterling Courier Systems, please.7 They have a […]
Posted by Ben on December 4, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/rundown-in-brief/
Caution: Sounder of Boar Ahead
BERLIN (Reuters) – A pack of wild boar wandered onto a German motorway, causing a five-car pileup and leaving one motorist injured and eight of the animals dead, police said on Saturday. The cars on the Dresden-Berlin motorway hit the boar at high speed. One car flipped, injuring the 33-year-old woman driver. (Reuters: “Pack of […]
Posted by Ben on December 1, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/caution-sounder-of-boar-ahead/
Instant, eh?
(via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on November 18, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/instant-eh/