TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

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

06 February 2017

Don't park like an asshole

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Forward this image to any acquaintances of yours who think it's o.k. to infringe on the broad space next to a handicapped parking spo...
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The Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund

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The image above is a screencap.  You can access a live "donate" button and reveal the creators of the spoof here (safe to clic...
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03 February 2017

Why cartoon characters wear gloves

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YouTube link .
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Aleppo

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Evocative.  Res ipsa loquitur. Photo credit Mohammed Al-Khatieb/AFP/Getty Images, via The Huffington Post .

More ransomware horror stories

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From The Telegraph : "C omputer hackers seized control of the electronic keycard system of a luxury Austrian hotel , releasing it o...
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Pretty in Pink (1986)

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YouTube link . YouTube link . Just a quick shout-out to a movie that I rewatched the other night.  Pretty in Pink is a movie that d...
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Some feral animals choose to run on an exercise wheel

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Researchers in the Netherlands placed a running wheel in wild settings and monitored its use. "If wheel running is indeed caused b...
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"Puer aeternus" ("man-child")

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Puer aeternus ..., Latin for "eternal boy", in mythology, is a child-god who is forever young. In psychology, it is an older per...
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E.T. was a vegetable

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Or a fruit perhaps.  On the "animal/vegetable/mineral" scale he was designated a "vegetable." "E.T. and his ex...
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"Oxymoron" is an oxymoron

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"First attested in the 17th century, noun use of 5th century Latin oxymōrum ‎(adj), neut. nom. form of oxymōrus ‎(adj), from Ancient G...
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30 January 2017

Divertimento #122

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The archaic term for mustard seed is eye of newt ." Often misunderstood for an actual eye of a newt, this name has been popularly as...
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29 January 2017

It's perfectly ok to feed candy to cows

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In the news this past week was a report that a truck spilled hundreds of thousands of Skittles on a rural road in Wisconsin, and that be...
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Selectively limiting immigration

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Much has been made of Trump's assertion that he would give favorable consideration to Christians from Muslim countries.  This point dese...
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It's hard to win a race when you fall down

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YouTube link .  Especially at the start of the bell lap. This event was part of the 2008 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships....
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Introducing the Curonians

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YouTube link . All of this totally new to me (despite a decent education).  Readers in too much of a hurry to spend time on a video may ...
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