Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Gator Update (Munchies Edition)

Alligator spotted at Taco Bell drive-thru 

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Short Answer: Nobody Knows

Who Exactly Was D.B. Cooper?

Song of the Day

Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn - YouTube:

The Decline of Western Civilization Continues Apace

This man earns almost £700 a month writing hardcore porn about the Apple Watch and Tetris 

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It's Right There in the Constitution

Washington woman says she was ‘well within her rights’ to shoot at husband for not doing chores  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

He Wants to Believe!

The Man Behind Florida's Favorite Cryptid, The Skunk Ape 

Gesundheit!

So long, sucker: man sneezes out part of toy dart after 44 years

PaperBack



Ann Aldrich, editor, Carol in a Thousand Cities, Gold Medal, 1960

Suspicions Confirmed

‘80s Music is Boring, According to Science

Texas Has Two in the Top Ten

US colleges with the best food

Once Again Texas Leads the Way

Archaeologists identify sunken 1681 Spanish shipwreck off Panamanian coast: A colonial Spanish nao, or merchant ship, Encarnación was one of several ships that sank in 1681 when a storm engulfed the Tierra Firme fleet en route to Portobelo, Panama from Cartagena, Colombia. Frederick “Fritz” Hanselmann, research faculty and chief underwater archaeologist with The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, leads the research team.

William Zinsser, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: William Zinsser, a writer, editor and teacher whose book “On Writing Well” sold more than 1.5 million copies by employing his own literary craftsmanship to urge clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 92.  

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1952: A Retro-Review

Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1952: A Retro-Review