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- Stuff Korean People Like
- Most Koreans love them, and I, myself, have come to like many of them, and can certainly appreciate that they have a rightful place in a universe in which things are only as weird as we are isolated from each other’s histories, ideas, emotions and taste b
- 2008-05-08 to drink, food, interesting, korea, society by bagoly
- How does a dirty word get that way?
- A federal appeals panel on Monday said the FCC could no longer slap indecency fines on broadcasters who accidentally allowed the word fuck on the airwaves, arguing that these days the word fuck is commonly used to express frustration rather than sexual ob
- 2007-06-20 to bestof, interesting, language, society by bagoly
- 11 Great Color Legends
- Some colors become huge successes early on and then fade off into obscurity… while other colors go the distance and become international icons. Here we look at 11 of the great color legends… Stop Sign Red, Horny Green M&Ms, Black Death, Blue Sky…
- 2007-05-10 to bestof, interesting, society by bagoly
- Computer age brings sun to village in shadow of the Alps
- VIGANELLA, Italy: From mid-November to early February, Viganella lives in the dark shadow of a steep mountain that blocks the sun from casting direct rays on the village, a stone's throw from the Swiss border. For centuries, its citizens have celebrated
- 2007-02-07 to interesting, science, society by bagoly
- How Queen's English has grown more like ours
- As the common tongue continues its inexorable slide towards a new dark age of glottal stops and "innits", news comes that even the Queen is drifting slowly down river towards Estuary English.
- 2006-12-07 to interesting, society by bagoly
- CONTROLLED CHAOS - European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs
- Are streets without traffic signs conceivable? Seven cities and regions in Europe are giving it a try -- with good results.
- 2006-11-21 to bestof, interesting, society, traffic by bagoly
- The Cold War’s cool real estate
- For sale: underground missile silos and vaults with uses the military never envisioned.
- 2006-11-15 to interesting, society by bagoly
- Step Right Up, Ladies and Gents, to See the End of an Oddity
- Ward Hall, the King of the Midway, has perpetrated perhaps his greatest illusion. He has risen from the dead. He has collected up his big top, rustled up the midget, dusted off the rubber fetuses and beat it back out on the road. Once again, he is the ger
- 2006-11-14 to bestof, entertainment, interesting, society by bagoly
- The Scandal at the Zoo
- At first, some people weren’t sure what it was. It — he — seemed much less a monkey than a man, though a very small, dark one with grotesquely pointed teeth. He wore modern clothing but no shoes. He was proficient with bow and arrow, and entertained
- 2006-08-09 to history, interesting, society by bagoly
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