Hilarious rundown of the items and characters in The Legend of Zelda, pointing out the obviously ridiculous nature of many of them. Fun reading.

The Spaniards that day sustained great loss and damage, having many of their shippes shot thorow and thorow, and they discharged likewise great store of ordnance against the English.

Sir Francis Drake’s ship was pierced with shot aboue forty times, and his very cabben was twice shot thorow, and about the conclusion of the fight the bed of a certaine gentleman lying weary thereupon, was taken quite from under him with the force of a bullet.

Likewise, as the Earle of Northumberland and Sir Charles Blunt were at dinner upon a time, the bullet of a demy-culvering brake thorow the middest of their cabben, touched their feet, and strooke downe two of the standers-by, with many such accidents befalling the English shippes, which it were tedious to rehearse.

ibid.

Wow, that’s interesting. Viewing the contributions to an open source project in accelerated real time, if that makes any sense. Click through and watch it in HD.

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An interesting and very straightforward evaluation of faith and evidence when it comes to proving or disproving god. I think he undervalues the revelatory nature of some people’s faith (i.e. they have “evidence” that no one else saw, like god spoke to them), which for them is reason enough. It’s addressed, but it assumes that people have a desire to question their own processes. For the most part, that’s just not true.

But check out this freaky related video.

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They were so well stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere they might allow each person in the whole fleete halfe a quintall every moneth, whereof the whole summe amounteth unto a hundreth thousand quintals.

Likewise of wine they had 147,000 pipes, sufficient also for halfe a yeere’s expedition. Of bacon, 6500 quintals. Of cheese, 3000 quintals. Besides fish, rise, beanes, pease, oile, vinegar, &c.

ibid.

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The Fruit Bats – “Seaweed”
Mouthfuls

I love the guitar in this song. So calming. This is a great album, by the way, one of the few albums I have with a distinct twang to it. I’m okay with that.

Oh, this is excellent. The 9/12 rally, but in video form. Haven’t seen any of these yet. Hope there are more.

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Good lord. Say what you will about the service, but that’s the ugliest logo Google’s ever made.

Their pieces of brazen ordinance were 1600, and of yron a 1000.

The bullets thereto belonging were 120,000.

Item of gun-poulder, 5600 quintals. Of matche, 1200 quintals. Of muskets and kaleivers, 7000. Of haleberts and partisans, 10,000.

Moreover they had great stores of canons, double-canons, culverings and field-pieces for land services.

ibid.