Originally posted by "torchuk" from http://ru-travel.livejournal.com/25411164.html

In the end of WW2, the crew of Italian m/v "Umbria" chose to open the kingston valves, rather then to surrender the vessel to the Royal Navy


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It has been pointed out to me that pink is not in the rainbow. In fact there are no pink photons! [1]
As it does not correspond to something physical I think a case can be made for disqualifying pink, along with brown, white and black, as "true colours".
Anyone with me on this?

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[1] http://www.aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the- ( Read more... )

The Power ballad, was popular in the 70's and 80's but have largely fallen out of favour in rock and pop. Like all music, the power ballad describes a sort of feeling or emotional state and it makes the power ballad easily recognizable.

With the power ballad no longer in fashion, have we had a whole feeling going out of fashion? I think we had and ( Read more... )

Jones in the fast lane is back! :-D
http://home.broadpark.no/~kboye/jones/jones.html
Having the music playing in the background while I'm at work makes for a surrealistic yet familiar experience.
Hope I get to drop by monolith burgers on the way home.

PS: You may want to zoom to 200% if you'r running it in Internet Explorer.

I like the idea of a "historical re-enactment" of events from geological eras.

http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=554

Here's something I thought Norway had quit decades ago....

The norwegian government, which is already strict on gambling, has tried curbing gambling-addiction. 
The first move was to remove slot machines from shopping centres, replacing them with government controlled ones that are "not too addictive" and where you identify yourself with a player ( Read more... )

I remember passing time in libraries, chancing upon books on odd and interesting topics. And deep down in the Dewey decimal system, which my favourite library followed to the letter (or the decimal?) there were even whole categories of bizarre sub-topics.

Nowadays I rarely go to the library to look up anything, but the internet has its own ( Read more... )

The guy who tried to blow up the plane between Amsterdam and Detroit recently, has a father that is a former minister and bank director of Nigeria. The father tried to warn the US of his son's radical tendencies ( Read more... )

IEEE transactions writes in their information for authors:

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author's company or institution will be requested to pay a charge of $110 per printed page to cover part of the cost of publication. Page charges for this TRANSACTIONS, like those for journals of other professional societies, are not ( Read more... )

In the late 90's there were a lot of attention awarded on people (mostly girls) that  had public webcams on in their rooms 24/7 ( Read more... )