Tag Archives: Burst of Weirdness

A few things for your consideration: :: Liam Neeson’s global reign of violence. :: A brief history of the dominion of the awfullest of apples, the Red Delicious. :: Daily rituals of great writers. More next week, if I’m so … Continue reading →

Just a couple of things this week: :: A fascinating GIF breaks down how we’ve been paying for music over the last 30 years. You can see formats rise and fall, and in the case of the CD, the fall … Continue reading →

A couple of nice items this week: :: Stephen Colbert, known for (among other things) his intense JRR Tolkien fandom, gave a short speech introducing a panel discussion of The Hobbit at ComicCon: I was given hope that finally, finally … Continue reading →

Oddities and items of questionable interest to occupy your time this Sunday morning! :: How Secret Societies Stay Hidden On The Internet. It all started with a Facebook message from a dead guy. Seems to me a wild-and-wooly adventure novel, … Continue reading →

Strange and weird and oh so awesome! :: First, something downright scary: Adolf Hitler’s official photographer managed to save shots he had taken (which Hitler had ordered destroyed) of Hitler practicing his wildly-gesticulating speaking style. No crowds, no audiences at … Continue reading →

Oh, Internet, how weird you are! :: They will make jewelry out of anything these days. Via Cal, who is always a prime source of odd stuff. :: This is weird: not five minutes after I posted the thing below … Continue reading →

Oddity and Awesome go hand in hand! :: Andy called my attention to this (on Google Plus, no less!), and it’s hysterical: kids of today reacting to a computer from when I was their age. A nine-year-old’s take on an … Continue reading →

Time for some oddball stuff, eh? :: Roger e-mailed me the links to these first two items. First, it turns out that this week’s surprise re-emergence of Bill Watterson onto the comics page had a charitable side to it. The … Continue reading →

Stay amazing, Internet! :: I have some idea of how books get written, and how they get acquired by publishers, and how they get sold. But the actual, physical making of the book? Check this out: Obviously this is a … Continue reading →