Month: July 2007

  • Behind the Regan’s Berlin Wall speech

    [The behind-the-scenes story of Reagan’s most famous speech](http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017914.php).

  • From communism to Capitalism

    A 65-year-old man in Poland [has just awoken after 19 years unconscious](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120556.html).

  • Harry Potter and the Invasion of the Fan-Fic

    Another feaure of Harry Potter is the tuly amazing volume of fan fiction (fanfic for short) that have been written.[^1] It’s getting close to overtaking Star Trek… [One site alone](http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/) has over 42,000 stories, written by over 20,000 different authors. Some of it is very, very good. But that’s not any fun… A few highlights…

  • More uses for a credit card

    [Credit card shaped cutlery](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/credit_card_cutlery.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

  • Ten states for Australia?

    [One proposal that never quite made it](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/130-a-ten-state-australia/).

  • Important information

    [One Mazda3 = 476.93 newborn babies](http://www.weirdconverter.com/weight.php) ([Via](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/03/how_many_whaletestic.html))

  • Business gardening

    Design a business card [that grows when you add water](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/03/business_card_that_s.html).

  • Which is real?

    So which of these [houses in unusual places](http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/unusualhouses.asp) is real?

  • Harry Potter and the Surfeit of Blog Posts

    The final book in the *Harry Potter* series will be released world wide this coming weekend. In the leadup (and afterwards) I’d expect a few thousand million posts on Harry Potter and related issues. Never let it be said that this blog is afraid of a bandwagon… I’ll put up a few posts on various…

  • Parking restrictions

    This seems like a [slightly specific no-parking sign](http://the-riotact.com/?p=5043).