Five Great Stories You Didn't Read in 2005
From the Columbia Journalism Review, one of my must-reads.
Five Things
These are more addictive than potato chips.
Fixin' To Die?
New Scientist explains what it will feel like—from drowning to decapitation.
Fixing Monk
Joe Harley sends along this YouTube goodie wherein Hans Groiner helpfully "fixes" the music of Thelonious Monk.
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Fly Boys and Guinea Pigs
Who taught us the facts of life? Jim Enderby's A Guinea Pig's History of Biology argues that it was close observation of just a few species.
Flying First Class
By blimp, of course.
Flying V Ukulele
If I got one of these for KwanzMasAka, I could pretend I was Stephen Mejias.
FOIA Turns 40
Jimmy Carter says happy birthday FOIA and tells us why we need less secrecy, not more.
Following the Supersonic Trail
Using the acoustics of gunfire to calculate the location of snipers. It doesn't work the way you might imagine.
Food Fit for Heroes
A hand-written">http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/news/uknews/2505034/Culinary-secrets-of-D… cookbook of 58 dishes, meticulously hand-written and illustrated by Corporal James Abraham Harrison will be auctioned next month. The gimmick to this cookbook? Harrison was one of Montgomery's Desert Rats and served as mess chef in the North African desert.