TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s
I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
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I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
No joke...
Learned something new today while listening to a podcast about US politics.
Tin in solder or some other meals can form spiky crystals when under stress. These whiskers can form short circuits if not properly insulated or not alloyed with other metals....
In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one....
Some government employee made the “new logo” in the 90s for NCSA software (the Common Gateway Interface), and government work is public domain....
Mercury poisoning of hat-makers – In 18th and 19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was commonly used in the hat-making trade at the time. Long-term use of mercury products often resulted in mercury poisoning-induced erethism among hat-makers.[1][2] In the late 19th-century United States, a...
Long but good.
Borderline Personality Disorder...
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Video of people making crazy crystal balls
Busytown
The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiroshima. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the...
So the tailor doesn’t touch your penis when they’re measuring you
Apparently he was an advocate for financial austerity, so his name became connected with cheap or discount things. A silhouette was an affordable type of portrait.
Photo credit: Matt Minnich...
The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts … men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and...