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 .

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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