Be Excellent To Each Other

You're bored at work. Luckily no-one can see your monitor so you're able to read The Entire Interwebs! Herein lies pages of un-bore and re-joy! List the fucks.

Edward Mordrake

I think we watched an X-Files episode that referenced this fella after a circus/carnival fella had a Siamese twin chap who detached himself at night to go kill people.

Reminds me of Basket Case.

Shamelessly stolen from elsewhere.


Evil People / Events / Murderers / Victims:


General Crime:


"Eccentric" People:


Unexplained Phenomena:


Science:


Wars / Snipers / Nazis / Japanese Toruture / Medal Winners / Weapons:


History:


Conspiracy Theories:


Misc (including Natural Distasters):


Food


Just Plain Bizarre:


Documentaries

That's my first week back at work sorted.

Excellent. It all comes together. Nice post Bobs!

Some of my obsession: Everest

General Everestyness
George Mallory may have made the first summit in 1924. His body was found in 1999.
1996 Disaster

If there isn't a band called Boston Molasses Disaster, there needs to be one.

The Boston Molasses Disaster is almost as odd as the London Beer Flood

Project Greek Island

French Frigate Shoals

Otherwise, I tend to just look up a car/truck/tank/train/plane/ship/firearm that interests me and follow links within until the hours have passed. Some good starting points:

B-1 Lancer
Synchronization gear
Jack-up oil rig
Railway loading gauge
Browning Automatic Rifle

Anything, even a link to cartridge calibre, can lead on for hours and hours.

Most of my obsessions aren't really well catered for on Wiki (largely obscure plant stuff that warrants two lines at best). Here are a few things I've found, that are strange enough, that you may or may not like.

Fairfield Industrial Dog Object
St Guinefort
Glochids
Pereskia
Hachiko

950 JDJ - for when you need to shoot a line of four elephants with a single round.

Not quite Wikipaedo, but West Mids police just posted this photo from their archives of a street gang called The Peaky Blinders.

Graham Souness, top row, centre.

Here's an interesting article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kearney

25k on WWTBAM?

Talk about how the mighty have fallen!

That's the problem with child prodigies, when they grow up they aren't necessarily that brilliant, they just get there a bit quicker...

word.

Or maybe WWTBAM isn't the best judge of these things. Which it really isn't.

Woo Bum-Kon? Really?

Epic thread idea, Dimmers - good stuff.

Woo Bum-Kon? Really?

Epic thread idea, Dimmers - good stuff.

I skipped a year in primary school as I was too brainy... then had to do the last year twice as I was too young to move schools

A similar thing happened to six of us at primary school too. Never did see the point of doing the same year twice.

Apologies if this is a repeat, but I couldn't see this mentioned anywhere on here yet and it's one of my favourites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Smashing stuff...never heard of that one and the short article has convinced me that 614–911 never existed.

And here's another one for your perusal pleasure...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

Increasingly going outside of the Wikipedia bounds, but fuck it, looks interesting. 102 Spectacular non-fiction stories of 2012.

Arthur Ganson, kinetic sculptor.

Superb stuff.

Never heard of him, love him now. Walking chair

Great article, thanks.

Pretty dam sure I've seen some of his work on a museum in Massachussets: will have to check to see if me or my pard filmed them.

Just watched the Mythbusters on turd polishing, and it with Dorodango. Dirt, water, and a lot of time.



I think I'm going to give it a go.

What the oh my good god what.

The extraordinary life of Major Bob Crisp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/ma ... azing-life

I read that yesterday. It is amazing.

PDF on stamps from a country that does not exist*. I don't know if anyone will find it interesting but there's more information here.

*Does but is officially part of East Timor.