Category: Esoteric and Weird Stuff

Home DIY - The Wonderful World of iPod battery replacement

by Graham Email

For some time I have been aware of a deterioration in the play time of my iPod. When new it had a playback time between recharges of over 10 hours. It reached the point in January this year where I was barely getting 2 hours of playback time, which is… more »

This week's WTF? collection - 9th January 2014

by Graham Email

I introduce you to this highly wacky and doozy article about pleomorphism... more »

The First Colonoscopy adventure

by Graham Email

Via a combination of inertia, and a certain amount of blase conviction that bad medical stuff happens to The Other Guy, I had managed to get all the way to my 58th year without having my colon inspected in any way shape or form. Now...I do have a prett… more »

The Economics of Bank Robbery

by Graham Email

Many years ago, I watched a TV chat show with the late Quentin Crisp, a most interesting man on many levels (he is the subject of Sting's 1987 song "An Englishman In New York"). During the show, Crisp launched into a monologue where he lamented what he s… more »

Are we getting closer to solving the Mallory and Irvine mystery?

by Graham Email

On June 8th 1924, two members of the British Mount Everest Expedition, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine left their camp high on Mount Everest to attempt to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain. They never made it back to camp, both men disappe… more »

Tired of Voice Response Hell - here is a possible answer

by Graham Email

The website GetHuman.com, which lists major customer service organizations and how to get through their Voice Response front-ends and talk to a real live human... more »

Robert Anton Wilson

by Graham Email

Interviews with Wilson are available here. more »

A lovely photo...

by Graham Email

...of the USS Iowa moored in the sunset, covered with Christmas lights at NAS Norfolk, VA, in December 1984. more »

The Thames Estuary Forts

by Graham Email

In World War II the UK government built and sank a number of (supposedly temporary) sea forts in the Thames Estuary. One of the forts (HM Tongue Sands) was visible several miles off the shore in my home town of Margate. In 2007, one of the forts, Seala… more »

An interesting article about power

by Graham Email

...which tends to undercut the long-established conventional wisdom about how to acquire, keep and expand power, many of which derive from the works of Machiavelli. more »

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