Every day, the same, again
The budget for toilet paper at the state’s 280 parks is $250,000 every year, and the allocation of that money is one of the key ways that department heads in Sacramento measure a park’s popularity.
The Apple Shop, in Norfolk, UK is a little corner store that sells apple products. Not Apple products, but apple products, in this case, cider. However, it’s been forced to change its name to the Norfolk Cider Shop.
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science . Related: The 15 Rules of Web Disruption.
Don’t Panic, But Thousands of Dolphins Were Spotted Swimming Away Off the Coast of San Diego.
Shane had died a week before he was to return to the US. Singapore police said he had drilled holes into his bathroom wall, bolted in a pulley, then slipped a black strap through the pulley and wrapped it around the toilet several times. He then tethered the strap to his neck and jumped from a chair. Shane, 6ft 1in and nearly 200lb, hanged himself from the bathroom door, the autopsy report said. […] She wanted to see exactly how Shane had died – and she saw nothing that fitted the police description. The marble bathroom walls had no holes in them. Nor were there any bolts or screws. The toilet was not where the police had said. Beyond the bathroom, Shane’s home looked like a snapshot of a man in the middle of a move. There was laundry in the dryer and dirty washing on the floor. Clean clothes were folded on the couch. Boxes were packed. […] “Mom, I’m going to call you every week, and if you don’t hear from me for a week, call the American embassy,” Mrs Todd recalled him as saying. [Financial Times | Thanks Stella]
A Chinese Hacker’s Identity Unmasked.
Grandmaster Melle Mel was the first rapper to call himself “MC” (Master of Ceremony). Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole, Scorpio, Rahiem, and Cowboy. While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term “hip-hop” while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words “hip/hop/hip/hop” in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. [Wikipedia]
Who’s Sending Out Fake Lesbian Wedding Announcements to Small Papers?
What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark?
Midas and Medusa: A very brief affair.
15 Celebrities You Might Not Know Are Twins.
Last Meals of Executed Innocent Men.
Pictures of hipsters taking pictures of food.
