TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."

04 July 2016

Glastonbury aftermath

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YouTube link . Amazing.  Not the garbage.  The tents and other camping gear.  Abandoned. Via the always-interesting Nothing To Do With...
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30 June 2016

A breast cancer survivor walks to Washington

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From Biloxi, Mississippi.  Topless . Paulette Leaphart left her hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 30, intent on walking to Was...
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Ja, das ist ein distelfink

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I ran across the word while reading a story by Charles Kuralt, and despite my Pennsylvania German heritage, I had to look it up. A dist...
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Coming July 4: Jupiter orbit insertion

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YouTube link .  This is an awesome trailer for next week's event.  Even if you normally don't care about astronomy and space, g...
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Dolphins recognized as "non-human persons"

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YouTube link . In 2013 India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests forbade the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment : ...
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Bird wing trapped in amber

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Found in a Burmese amber mine: The two new samples, weighing in at only 0.06 and 0.3 ounces (1.6 and 8.51 grams), contain bone structu...

A surprising graph of American gun ownership

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The percent of American households owning guns is at a near-40 year low in the latest CBS News poll released this month. According to t...
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26 June 2016

Divertimento

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Windblown ducklings (all eventually made it to safety). Video shows complication of shooting Dragon's Breath incendiary rounds wi...
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Real Life

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A look at Bulgaria's "bride's market"

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YouTube link . Every year young Roma women attend "bride markets" with the intention of getting married to the highest bidder....
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25 June 2016

Snark-hunting map

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"He had bought a large map representing the sea,     Without the least vestige of land: And the crew were much pleased when they f...
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23 June 2016

Brexit returns surprising so far...

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This evening many sources, including the American BBC broadcast, admitted that the outcome of the voting was too close to call, but that ...
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22 June 2016

"To the manner born"

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I spent the evening of the summer solstice sitting outdoors with a recreational beverage, reading the only first edition I own - a copy o...
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"Enhance the reflection"

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YouTube link .
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Adobe Flash Player critical update recommended

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As reported by Krebs On Security : Adobe on Thursday issued a critical update for its ubiquitous Flash Player software that fixes three d...
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