August 31, 2010
Because you can't get good toilet paper news just anywhere.
• Interesting toilet paper holders.
• The toilet paper wedding dress. (I do. Eww.)
• Newark, New Jersey mayor: No toilet paper for city offices. (Read it and wipe weep.)
• One more thing to do at work that's not work!
• Say hello to my two-ply friend!
August 25, 2010
If you haven't seen this story, get a wallet or something to bite on first:
Mary Bale, 45, was caught on CCTV petting four-year-old tabby cat Lola before picking her up, tossing her into a trash can and closing the lid.
August 24, 2010
This story almost has the feel of a hoax:
"It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is commonly used through the world to inflate party balloons. But helium is also a non-renewable resource and the world's reserves of the precious gas are about to run out, a shortage that is likely to have far-reaching repercussions.
August 20, 2010
We're deep on deadline here at BRI headquarters, and I'm just polishing up a page on fascinating brain facts—"Your brain is so soft it can be cut with a butter knife" is a fun one. I just came across this bit of info: The earliest known realistic depiction of a human brain was made just 500 or so years ago. Imagine that. Of all the tens of thousands of years that modern humans have been around, we didn't, at least according to the article linked, get a good drawing of that most vital of organs—the brain—until just a few centuries ago. Almost makes you feel young, doesn't it?
August 19, 2010
Inside Uncle John's Briefs are the most entertaining, myth-busting, and thought-provoking brief articles from Uncle John's enormous Bathroom Reader library. So plunge in and see for yourself why the Bathroom Reader series has sold more than 10 million books.
Here is a bit of what awaits you…
- Corn Crackos and other cereal flops
- Baseball's most bizarre injuries
- The timeless wisdom of Mr. T
- The origins of the warerbed, tarter sauce, and the polka
- How to talk like a mobster
- The anatomy of a hiccup
…and much, much more!
Now to the fun part—Giveaway!!!
August 18, 2010
If we didn't already have a toilet at the office, we might have all pitched in to buy J.D. Salinger's "Throne."
The description reads: "Here's an item you won't come across everyday! This is the toilet that was personally owned AND used by J.D. Salinger for many years! It sat in his home in Cornish, New Hampshire, and was installed in the 'new wing' of his house. When he died, his wife inherited all of his manuscripts with plans to eventually release some of them! Who knows how many of these stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!"
But, we're not sure $1 million is a fair price. What do you think?
August 18, 2010
Thank you Greg Wolcott for sending us a great cartoon today. Thanks for making us smile!
Free Range cartoon by Bill Whitehead
August 14, 2010
A creepy yet fascinating insect story from Discover:
"Hyper-violent males can sometimes wear the female down but some opt for a subtler approach – they tap intricate rhythms on the water with their legs. When Han and Jablonski discovered these rituals last year, they suggested that the males might be trying to demonstrate their quality, by tapping out the most consistent rhythms. Now, they have another explanation – the tapping is a form of blackmail, a way of coercing sex from the female with the threat of death.
The duo studied the preferences of the backswimmer – a predatory bug that floats upside-down at the water’s surface and listens out for the vibrations of potential prey. When given a choice between a silent male water strider and a mating pair with a tapping male, the backswimmer always headed towards the vibrating duo. And since these predators attack from below, the female was always the one who was injured while the male strode off to tap another day."
The Confederate warship Virginia was made from part of the captured Union warship Merrimack.
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