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What are Markov chains? And why are they so useful? Veritasium Does a good job of explaining how Google works, which is remarkably sim...

Oregon Lottery Just completed a phone survey about gambling. It was kind of obnoxious. The lady claimed she needed to read all of the questi...

1919 Savage Rifle Advertisement Body of text: CHARLES COTTAR'S SURPRISE AT THE .250-3000 Is anything much harder to kill than the rhinoc...

Hosseiniyeh Ershad in Tehran, Iran Technically, this building is not a mosque, but it is an old Islamic building. RT  has a story about the ...

Watched most of the game this afternoon. Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49-ers by 3 points in overtime. My wife recognized two of...

I would really like to see the Biden administration and the majority of Congress accused, tried, convicted and locked up in jail for their c...

Miller Lite, Coors Light & Blue Moon Big Game Commercial | The High Stakes Beer Ad (Extended) Miller Lite Saw this ad while I was w...

Pretty great. Murder mystery set in Cairns in northeast Australia, which is well into the tropics . We've got crocodiles and venomous sn...

I usually play  0hh1 three or four times a day. It's fairly mindless, takes about three minutes to play. During the last few days I...

Spam Once every couple of months or so I get a spam comment on one of my old posts. Yesterday I got a comment from a pest control company in...

Saab 35 Draken - Rahal Racing in town for a Indy 500 race back in the 90's. The Saab Draken is a 1950's era jet fighter. Rahal Raci...

Flares Into Darkness  posted a bunch of old beer advertisements. Very enjoyable. Here are a few I though worth mentioning. Presumably a WW2 ...

NBA | Trade Up | American Express American Express I was watching a bit of NBA basketball this evening and this ad showed up at halftime...

Ash and smoke from Popocatepetl volcano seen from Puebla, central Mexico A KLM flight from Amsterdam to Mexico City turned back because ...

Renshobo on Horseback by Hakuin Ekaku “What is the sound of one finger clicking?” -  BJ Campbell Link goes to good story about how...

Bogus Time Magazine Cover It just occurred to me that much of the outrage we see and hear in our digital information world is fueled by ...

Vin Mariani Poster Vin Mariani was a tonic and patent medicine was made from wine and coca leaves. It was created about 1863 by Angelo M...

Oh Henry 4:25 Candy Bar Rumor has it that 4:20 was the time a group of stoners would get together to get stoned. Getting stoned sometime...