Yet more keen links one might want to share

[xoxoxoBruce]

Those are cool, but the one that caught my attention was...

WTF? One arm? OK, squadron leader, desk job... but standing beside HIS fighter???

1940-41, Eight kills (two at night).
February 1941, loses arm.
1941-42, five kills, (all at night)
1942-43, USA lecture tour.
1943, three kills, shot down over France, Germans reported he was a POW, but died in a hospital.
Wiki says...

James was not academically talented although he did excel at poetry and attracted trouble from his school masters by forming libelous rhymes about his contemporaries and members of staff. He played rugby and enjoyed rowing but was not a sporty child. He enjoyed wildlife and animals. It encouraged in him a fascination with biology, and he regularly supplied rabbits and other specimens to the laboratory. He was never appointed a prefect and did not rise to a notable rank in the School Officer Training Corps. He engaged in carpentry and metal work. He and his friends built and manufactured a .22 pistol in the workshops. It test fired and worked. Keen to acquire a real firearm, he obtained a service revolver but shot himself in the hand.

But the lad could fly... boy, could he fly.

[Gravdigr]

Wow.

[Lamplighter]

Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war
Washington Post - Philip Bump - May 25,2015

<snip>
We used whole years for both the age and the war,
so the brief Gulf War is given a full year,
and World War II includes 1941.
These are estimates.

But the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan in (late) 2001 means that
anyone born in the past 13 years has never known an America that isn't at war.
Anyone born after 1984 has likely seen America at war for at least half of his or her life.
And that's a lot of Americans

[xoxoxoBruce]

Upload a picture of a bird to Merlin, and it will ID the bird's type.

[Gravdigr]

Wow. That works very well.

Thanks for posting that, Bruce.

[Gravdigr]

It got everything from hummingbirds to wild turkeys. It had a bit of trouble with mockingbirds, though. They were in the possibles list, but, pretty far down. It called my wild turkey a turkey vulture, but, the next thing on the list was wild turkey. I assume you're helping it learn when you click "This is my bird.".

[xoxoxoBruce]

My work here is done... YoYo Copper, awaaaayyyy.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Wordinary helps you find any of the 411331 English words in the dictionary.

[DanaC]

wild turkeys

The one bird I have no problem identifying ;p

[Gravdigr]

A vid of kids doing awesome shit, and some of that shit pretty damn awesome.

[xoxoxoBruce]

"a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase"

The Internet Archive has a complete scan of James Redding Ware’s wonderful 1909 treatise “Passing English of the Victorian era: a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase,” ganked from the University of Toronto’s Robarts library.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

A vid of kids doing awesome shit, and some of that shit pretty damn awesome.

The kid at 0:16 sec's gets my vote !

[BigV]

Impressive, yes. But my favorite was the young lady ninja at 1:45. And the phase-shifting soccer striker at 1:51 is the most baffling. Excellent video Gravdigr.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Where old clothes go.
Trailer...


The full 15 minute video.

[Gravdigr]

Danny Luckett made Louisville Sluggers for 45 years, nine months, and eight days.

Among other notable bats, he made the bat Hank Aaron used to swat homerun number 715. Many of the bats he made are in museums.