random stuff

[El Pibe]

"sticky wicket" an american term now.

http://britishisms.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/sticky-wicket/

[El Pibe]

The time North Korean commandoes tried to assasinate the South Korean president.

"And it was all going to plan until the afternoon of January 19, when the infiltrators accidentally came upon four woodcutters. A debate ensued among the North Koreans; an ill-fated decision was made. Rather than kill the South Koreans, ensuring their silence, the commandos lectured them for four hours. A communist revolution, they argued with ideological zest, was coming soon to the south. The civilians were sent on their way with a grim warning: tell the authorities and we?ll kill your families.

The woodcutters went to the police immediately."

http://www.nknews.org/2013/01/when-nk-commandos-tried-to-assassinate-south-koreas-president/

[El Pibe]

and the story continued to even more bonkersness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/209th_Detachment,_2325th_Group

[david_carnell]

Love it.

Military incompetence is always worth a snigger.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19981_the-5-most-embarrassing-failures-in-history-war.html

"The emus easily outran the truck and led it over such rough terrain that the gunner didn't even manage a single shot. The chase ended when the truck crashed through a fence, because at that point the universe was just throwing Looney Tunes tropes at them. Having had their share of humiliation, the weary soldiers had no option but to admit defeat after a week's combat. The score: 10,000 fired rounds and less than 1,000 dead emus"

[El Pibe]

http://www.geography-map-games.com/geography-games-Counties-of-England-_pageid161.html

discussing the online citizenship test revamp somebody asked where wiltshere was, so we did this online counties thing.

I wasn't as bas as i thought I was in fairness though quite a few were a second stab.

44,000

http://www.geography-map-games.com/geography-games-Counties-of-England-_pageid161.html

I'm sure I'd struggle with the welsh one and just no point at all my doing the scottish one.

[El Pibe]

youtube compilation of a meteor careening across the skies over Russia.

Very cool.

the link might help

http://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/russian-meteor-150213/

[david_carnell]

Very cool?

Shit scary.

[red devil]

What's really scary is how many people video their mundane car journeys, unfortunately this bloke didn't...http://uk.news.yahoo.com/frank-lecerf-renault-car-acceleration-pedal-stuck-at-125mph-france-belgium-134908648.html#xeTW1DD

[the-e-dealer]

They video for security. Stuff happens on Russian roads

[woodrot]

'parrently, Gypsies are so called as people used to think they were from Egypt ( indeed, in the olden days, they announced themselves as coming from little egypt ), hence the emergence of the EZ to remember Gypsy.

[Annette Curtain]

When you open a packet of lumpwood charcaol, the gun metal colour stuff is Sweet Chestnut wood.

Whereas the Oak is the smaller bits that burn hotter.

[StraferJack]

quite liked this when I saw it today

Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

http://crispian-jago.blogspot.nl/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html

[the-e-dealer]

Blimey its a diagram of the EDF!

[El Pibe]

weather forecasting made lovely

http://forecast.io/#/f/51.5173,-0.1063

[StraferJack]

very very nice - but forecasting quite different weather than my goto source, MeteoGroup

(ETA - I see they aggregate various other data sources.)

I'll keep an eye and see which turns out to be more accurate

[El Pibe]

more graphical goodness, tube map fun from the sublime

to the concise

to the ridiculous

 

[david_carnell]

StraferJack Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> very very nice - but forecasting quite different

> weather than my goto source, MeteoGroup

>

> (ETA - I see they aggregate various other data

> sources.)

>

> I'll keep an eye and see which turns out to be

> more accurate

You'll keep an eye and see which is more accurate?! Seriously?!

Frickin' geek. Just look outside! ;-)

[StraferJack]

geek yes

but looking outside doesn't help forecast, now does it

[the-e-dealer]

Was Sunny Earlier!

[El Pibe]

google maps and street view have gone a bit odd today. has anyone found any treasure yet?

[david_carnell]

Most of my road is suddenly unavailable which is odd. I know nothing of treasure though.

[El Pibe]

https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.464756,-0.077696&spn=0.026522,0.064888&t=8&z=14&layer=c&cbll=51.464756,-0.077696&panoid=7gbOJjWOwTh3AGP0qDXe6w&cbp=12,10.12,,0,13.33

actually can't remember quite where you liv, but there be dragons ish

[Salsaboy]

Something to do with Google's April Fools day pranks?

[El Pibe]

Sure, I was just wondering how people were doing with the puzzle.

We'd managed to follow some clues to a key somewhere in the pacific but got no further.

[????]

100