88 Topps Cards: One by one Baseball statistician Andy is going through all 792 cards one by one of the 1988 Topps set, posting bits about what makes the card awesome and cool stats about the player or team featured on the card.
Graph showing public transit increase versus gas prices It's amazing to see how traffic to public transit sites have risen almost exactly to the same increase in gas price. We know that this makes sense, but the percent of increase for both is almost exactly the same.
The 10 Most Ridiculous Weapons in Batman's Arsenal 10) Bat-Shark Repellent from the '60 Batman movie
9) Lockpick from Batman: The Last Arkham
8) Assorted Dumb Boots from various
5 sights the U.S. government won't let Google show you The White House's rooftop defense system
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Shatt-Al-Arab Hotel in Basra, Iraq
Dick Cheney's house
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
2.21 trillion gallons of water evaporate from lake michigan every day Lake Michigan's 22,300 square miles of surface area loses 29.5 inches of water annually via evaporation.
Crolf three-way croquettish golf hole/hoops
Give southern Illinois to Missouri Northern Illinois (especially Chicago) always contrasted with southern Illinois. So I say, "screw it". Let's give southern Illinois to Missouri. Blago and all the Chicago-hating southerners will fit in perfectly with St. Louis.
45 Amazing and Incredible Artificial Islands whoa. I barely got beyond the Dubai islands, and the list just goes on and on. Amazing.
Chocolate Calculator If you like chocolate plus numbers, you'll love the sum of this equation
Man Flies Helium Balloons Over State Lines! Each balloon can carry 4 lbs, the chair alone was 400 lbs along with Ken Couch and his parachute adding 200 more. “I'd go to 30,000 feet if I didn't shoot a balloon down periodically,”
teach my cat to fly I don't get why there are three people in the world who want to teach their cat to fly
Toast Wallet I'm gonna get one of these. $9.95 at Archie McPhee
