TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."
22 June 2026
Interesting library chair
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Via Architecture Hub .
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Two videos about techniques for filming movies
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Via Kottke .
New technology for warfare: gyrocopters and paragliders
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"They appear after midnight, slowly crossing Myanmar’s skies. The motorised paragliders are improvised aircraft, suspending small metal...
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21 June 2026
A cure for anthropocentrism
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If you have friends who believe that human beings are the center of everything and humans are the reason for the existence of the universe, ...
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Italian word for the day: coglione
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Here is the definition, from the Wikipedia entry on Italian profanity : Lots of interesting material at that link.
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15 June 2026
Prefix of the day: "pene"
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This rock was identified at the whatsthisrock subreddit as a " penecontemporaneous deformation structure ." It apparently is suc...
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The etymology of "soccer"
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This will be my only post relevant to this year's World Cup. "... in its early days, football was a very "posh" sport. ...
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Postal history of the Telemark coast of Norway
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The video is a full-length recording of an hour-long presentation at the Boston 2026 World Exposition of Philately. The Telemark postal dis...
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13 June 2026
The dark side of Beatrix Potter
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Beatrix Potter, despite the efforts of Graham Greene and many others, is still tarred with a certain National Trust tweeness, even thou...
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Cloche hats
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Here's the Wiki: The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s. (Cloche is the French word for bell.) C...
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Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes in 1973 - his "tremendous machine" performance
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Everyone who watched the Belmont 40 years ago will never forget Secretariat's race that day. He had already won the Kentucky Derby ...
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Some observations re SpaceX
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"By Friday, however, the macro narratives were entirely overshadowed by the excitement of the SpaceX IPO. It’s an IPO that will go down...
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12 June 2026
Why mosquito eggs float
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This hand-coloured scanning electron micrograph was the favourite of the jury in the section "Best Scientific Image". The imag...
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What's wrong with people nowadays?
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"A space in Mankato that promotes reflection and healing for families who have lost a child has been vandalized , according to the nonp...
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11 June 2026
Studying whiskers on an elephant's trunk
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This is the sentence that piqued my curiosity: "Haptic researchers discovered a difference of two orders of magnitude in the elasticity...
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