Yet more keen links one might want to share

[glatt]

Oh. I didn't include a link. My post was more of a commentary on the prevalence of click bait stories on the internet. This particular one was on FB. If the coat is so freaking amazing, just put in the headline what it's made of. Fuck them. I don't care what the coat is made of. If it's that great, I'll find out eventually through other channels. I didn't click the link and I don't know what the coat is made of.

If we boycott click bait stories, they will go away.

And if you are dying of curiosity, then use google to search for the topic, and then they won't know that their click bait headline drove your traffic there.

[glatt]

This time, I'll include a link.

Here is a cool collection of images of residential skyscrapers in Hong Kong. This photographer has a very good eye. His trademark appears to be centering his camera in a courtyard and aiming the camera straight up, but I also thought this particular image was a nice one.

[Clodfobble]

I like the brave soul with no bars over the door. I bet he's a gangster or something, everyone already knows not to fuck with him.

[xoxoxoBruce]

'cause he's the burglar.

[Gravdigr]

LuckyGunner has conducted a fairly exhaustive ballistics test on 117 self-defense handgun loads in .380ACP, .45ACP, .40S&W, and 9mm (with more in the works), looking at penetration, amount of expansion, and muzzle velocity.

Check it out over at Lucky Gunner.



ETA: They also have free printable targets.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Whew, lot of information there.

[xoxoxoBruce]

"The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today"

In the last decade, most of the big U.S. airlines have shifted major maintenance work to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are F.A.A. certified and inspections have no teeth.

[Gravdigr]

What if the world lost all oxygen for 5 seconds?

I know some of that is basically correct, but is any of it just plain wrong?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Some sound pretty far out, but all the metal fusing together is wrong. Removing the oxygen for 5 seconds doesn't instantly remove the accumulated oxidation. There's also the little matter of paint, oil, and other coatings on said metal. They've taken a scientific known and stretched it to an unrecognizable fat tick, then call it a certainty, a "fact". Short on truth and long on hyperbole... commonly known as bullshit.

[Happy Monkey]

I think they're saying the element itself is removed, not just the free O2 in the air, and oxidized metal minus oxygen would be metal. And they do specify "untreated".

But I don't see how that would work in the "doubled" direction. That seems to be purely atmospheric.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If you have to add qualifiers to 'removing oxygen for 5 seconds', like oh, by the way, and 'all past effects of the oxygen', it make the statement hyperbole, alias bullshit. Any statement is true with enough modifiers, but this list is over the top. I can't address the other statements without research I don't care to invest the time in, but most sound highly suspect without a lot of qualifiers. I think most of the statements would require a lot of probablys, in-some-cases, generallys, and usuallys, to be valid.

[glatt]

FB thought I would be interested in this story, and I am, slightly.

This is the most expensive house currently on the market in the US. $159M

The rendering looks nice enough.



Fly to it in Google Earth and the curb appeal is somewhat lower.
What an ugly service entrance for the utilities. This neighborhood is ugly to me.


And the private docks for your yachts are on the other side of Route A1A! You have to walk across the street to get to your yacht! I suppose if you were the kind of person who lived here, you would drive down your driveway, but then you would have to park your Rolls Royce on the side of the road.


The inside is extravagant, if you go for that kind of thing. And I suppose it's all about the inside. Maybe they will find the right buyer.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, but there's a guy building a spec house in CA which will be done in 2017, that's 100,000 sq ft,, for half a Billion dollars.

He says most these super expensive houses are being snapped up by foreigners, to keep their money safe here, and only visit a couple weeks a year.

http://www.details.com/story/most-ex...ion-nile-niami

[Clodfobble]

Randall Monroe writes the comic xkcd.

Awhile back he wrote a book called "What If?" providing funny but accurate answers to highly theoretical and weird questions, which Minifob loved.

Now he's coming out with a new book called "Thing Explainer," which explains common scientific principles, but only using the 1000 most common words in the English language (which must be called "ten-hundred," because "thousand" isn't one of them.) To illustrate the concept and promote the book, he teamed up with a popular YouTube channel to create a sample video about becoming an astronaut, or "How to Go to Space." It's fucking hiliarious.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Oh, that's how it works.