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Blogging about it
OK, back to blogging after a three-month hiatus. Let's hope the Random Article button gives me something interesting today.
RAF Fowlmere! It's an RAF base near Cambridge. It was used by the RAF in World War I, and primarily by the USAAF in World War II. Article includes some cool pictures of P-51 Mustangs. Then it was sold back to the local ( Read more... ) -
Kirsi Ylijoki
A very dull entry on the very dull Finnish actress Kirsi Ylijoki is enlivened by some silly names. Meet Kirsi! Her husband Eicca! Sons Eelis and Ilmari ( Read more... ) -
Diamond color
OK, so I sit down and decide to blog about one random article today before I leave. And what should I get but Diamond ColorThis is something I happen to know about, cos I used to work on it. Why do diamonds have colours? Because they have individual point defects inside which absorb and re-radiate at various different wavelengths. A defect-free ( Read more... ) -
Cocking-cloth
Hooray for randomness! Today it brings me a cocking-cloth.That could be lots of things, many of which would be more interesting than what it actually is. But instead, it's a big square non-airworthy kite that you hide behind in order to sneak up on pheasants ( Read more... ) -
Blogging about it
Ooh, I've just been reminded (Hi Joel!) that I haven't done my wikipedia thing for a while. So, here's a nice random article for ya: Arranmore Island Transmitter! It's a 45-metre high radio transmission tower on a crappy island off the coast of Ireland. It serves the 528 people of Arranmore Island, who incidentally didn't get electricity until ( Read more... ) -
Laffey Matrix
The wikipedia article on the Laffey Matrix is really apallingly written, and I have no idea what the hell it's on about. Apparently it's some kind of matrix that determines the appropriate rates at which legal fees are charged. In my experience this means every element of the matrix probably just says "an absolute fuckload". Apart from that, I'm ( Read more... ) -
Optic atrophy
Ooh. I knew that a large proportion of wikipedia would be composed of horrible diseases, and here's the first optic atrophy is atrophy of the optic nerve, although it's suggested that "atrophy" is the wrong word and it should be called "neuropathy", since atrophied body parts (e.g. muscles) can usually regrow, but the optic nerve can't. ( Read more... ) -
Tekovska Breznica and other unpronouncable crap
Man, I'm glad I don't have to read this shit out loud. Tekovská Breznica is a town in the Žarnovica District of the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia. Wikipedia gives eight centuries of totally unpronouncable history associated with the town. It has a cool-looking castle and shit.
Also, while I'm getting all medieval on your ass, here's Narrow ( Read more... ) -
Too damn close to home
This is getting weird. Out of all the 1.2 million articles, wikipedia randomly gives me the Sydney Sandpipers, a netball team based out of the University of Sydney. It doesn't have much to say about them except that they operated from 1997 to 2003 and wore sky-blue uniforms, which presumably allowed them to be camouflaged when playing much shorter ( Read more... ) -
Three more boring articles
OK, Mr Random Article button, gimme something interesting!
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Sayoko Kawauchi isn't very interesting. She's a Japanese archer. And not an especially good one either. She placed 53rd in the 2004 Olympics, with a 72-arrow score of 601. Okay, that's probably better than I could do, but it's unlikely to be showing up in Trivial Pursuit anytime soon ( Read more... )