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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Ever wonder what the sport of parkour looks like to those actually doing the…umm…parkouring? Wonder no more: (This video may be triggery in people with problems with vertigo. Or people who just don’t much like the idea of plummeting great distances to injury.) :: Never let it be said you can’t keep a good idea down! Sure, a disaster involving an enormous fireball and a number of deaths can be a setback, for decades even, but eventually we were bound to get back to the airship, weren’t we? I would love to see these inDown the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Glenn Beck’s psychodelic road show. I actually kinda want to see this, just for how gonzo it sounds. :: Need a reaction GIF from a Hayao Miyazaki movie, tailored to a specific emotion? Here you go. :: Lots of weird stuff in the Amazon. It’s all probably hostile, so hey, Brazil? Could you bulldoze the rest of the Amazon faster, please? Thanks! :: Finally, a salute to a typewriter repairman who died last month at the age of 96, working almost to the end. I used to dink around on a typewriter a lot asDown the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Old School FRP is a Tumblr blog devoted to vintage art and paraphernalia from the early days of role playing games — think late 1970s and early 1980s. This is the image that greeted me the first time I saw the blog: Oh yeah. That’s the stuff. Poor Sheboygan! :: I had no idea that the “Spider Man no more!” image was as iconic as it apparently is: Cal has more. I could do this myself, leaving a pair of overalls in a trash can in a rainy alley. “Jaquandor no more!” (But I won’t.Down the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Ahhh, training videos — the bane of existence of everybody who has ever worked, well, anywhere. Personally, I can’t stand training videos and I invariably find them a giant waste of time. But this one, from Wendy’s in the 80s, is fascinating. It’s just your normal boring training video, dull-as-ditchwater, until you get to about the 3:40 mark. :: James Garfield is the only President to prove a mathematical theorem. Now, there are two things Garfield can be known for! (The other is that he died of a gunshot wound just six months into beingDown the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound…. :: If you go to the cemetery in Texas where Lee Harvey Oswald is buried, beneath a stone simply marked “Oswald”, you’ll see a similar stone right next to it, engraved “Nick Beef”. Just who is Nick Beef? :: I saw this on Twitter yesterday. Some kid lost a part of a Lego toy, and wrote to Lego to ask for a replacement. Witness how Lego does customer service: This originated on the @Fascinatingpics feed. :: I’m on board with overalls, obviously, but this takes them just a bit too far for me. More next week!Down the rabbit hole….

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Think you own the cutest car ever? Well, you DON’T. (I don’t either.) #beetle #VW #Cutemobile, originally uploaded by Jaquandor. Oddities and Awesome abound! I wasn’t online as much this week (beating my book’s final sequence into submission, and no, it’s not done yet), but check out this car. Is that not the cutest car in the history of cars? By pure happenstance, we emerged from a store last night to find this parked next to us. How sweet is that! More next week. And hey, don’t forget to Ask Me Anything! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Remember those old “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey” humor bits on Saturday Night Live? I always figured that they were written by staff writers and just put up under a generic name. I didn’t realize, until last week when I bookmarked this article, that Jack Handey is a real guy. Wow. (Yes, this makes me feel like an idiot.) :: A different hypothesis about vampirism. Wow! :: A Chinese bakery’s plan to use drones to deliver cakes has been shut down. This is very likely a bad idea for obvious reasons, but me being me,Down the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! Just one thing today, but it’s a doozie. If you’re like me, you often lose time on sites like Cracked.com or TV Tropes. That’s because you read one thing end up clicking more things, and next thing you know it’s dinnertime (you sat down at the computer at breakfast), your family is irritated with you, and you have seventy-nine browser tabs open to pages on one of those sites. Well, here’s a new site for the list: The World Geography. Just go. Thank (or curse) me later. I’m spending a bunch of time on the siteDown the rabbit hole….

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Oddities and Awesome abound! :: An oral history of the 1989 Cleveland Indians. Oddly, official Major League Baseball archives don’t seem to have much information about this team, so this oral history and the cinematic documentary on the subject, are likely to remain the only sources of historical data. :: Here is the short tale of a very helpful motorcyclist. :: Another baseball-related item: Baseball’s dying traditions. More next week…. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….