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Le Transi de René de Chalo
"Prince of Orange René de Chalons died in battle in 1544, at age 25. His widow commissioned the sculptor Ligier Richier to represent him offering his heart to God, set against the painted splendour of...
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In 1996 when members of the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned the first mammal I was in the sixth grade. The cloned animal was a sheep and her name was Dolly. I can remember hearing this story on the...
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Name: Sonic the Hedgehog 3System: Sega GenesisDeveloper: Sonic TeamPublisher: SegaRelease Date: 1994Genre: PlatformerWhile I think I have to give the crown of best Sonic title to Sonic 2, Sonic 3 is a...
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Redrawing the US: 38 States
I found the following map on one of my favorite blogs; Strange Maps, and did a bit of tweaking so that it no longer shows the current state borders. There is also some information about it here. It's...
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Asbestos
I buy most of my textbooks online, not only because it's cheaper, but to stick it to the monopoly that is the university book store, so I get an email every once in a while from AbeBooks. They're...
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Thundercats
Today I have two odd and unrelated Thundercats topics to bring up. The first, and possibly the most awesome discovery in the history of the universe, is that James Lipton, host of BSD favorite Inside...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons
Another day another victory for Strange Maps. This time they bring us The International Square Earth Society, which I can only assume (and hope) is a spoof on the flat earth crazies.It's quite an...
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Fantasy Movie Studios
We've decided to start a friendly game for BSD readers and other bloggers we know. It will be a fantasy movie studio game, where you start with a budge of 100 Euros and purchase movies with it. The...
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MLB Suggestions
Opening Day is almost upon us, which means my yearly opining about baseball. However, instead of rambling on nostalgically about how much I love the game, I'm going to complain about it for once. I...
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When the Weather outside is ...
A friend sent this my way. The designer has a delightfully fun website with a great collection of projects. Put in a city anywhere in the world and this site will tell you the weather conditions there...
View ArticleColonial Winter
I have always liked the term Indian Summer, which is a fairly common term in the northern U.S. I have always taken it to mean unseasonably warm weather in Fall after the first cold spell. I always...
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Mittens
Once again, a post about my map obsession and once again a link to Strange Maps. This time we have an interesting post about BSD's home state, complete with a little German lesson at the bottom. How...
View ArticleUmlaut Education
Being a somewhat competent German speaker, I have wondered for many years why umlauts appear over some English words in some books... coöperate, reënact, naïve, etc. In German, umlauts indicate a...
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Common Sense
"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial...
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Mega Man Soccer
Name: Mega Man’s SoccerSystem: SNESDeveloper: CapcomPublisher: CapcomRelease Date: 1994Genre: SportsWhether this game is actually any good or not, I can’t really say for sure. I am not too familiar...
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A Green Lantern
Earlier I saw some concept images for the upcoming (2011) Green Lantern movie and it got me thinking..."Wouldn't this make a better science fiction movie than it would a super-hero movie?"I know that...
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Sodom and Gomorrah
"Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger,...
View ArticleCategorically Opposed
I used to be a fan of genres. Science fiction, fantasy, gothic... but not westerns, no definitely not westerns. I spent countless hours of my youth reading Star Wars novels. I just chewed through them....
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Destiny Hope is a Stripper's Name
Left: Destiny, a stripper from the HBO series True Blood. Right: Destiny Hope Cyrus (A.K.A. Miley Cyrus.)
View ArticleI'm Not the Man They Think I Am at Home
I've always been a fan of bizarro stuff. Matt and I even spent a year living as a bizarro version of our best friend. I like that, as far as Bizarro Superman is concerned, being bizarro is about not...
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