Extra likes for mentions of West African polyrhythms, An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (known as Salah ad-Din or Saladin) and soap.
Open Thread For April
Skip to content
Aardvarchaeology – by Dr. Martin Rundkvist
Scandinavian archaeology, history, skepticism, books and music
Aardvarchaeology - by Dr. Martin Rundkvist 
With a bit of cunning*, the pair from Mythbusters escape Death again http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3979.html (*see No. 3964 for explanation)
LikeLike
Aaand…compulsory Tolkien reference.
Infinite Ents http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3973.html
The author makes a good point. If each additional Ent is half the size of the previous one, you can fit an infinite number into a finite wood.
LikeLike
Why American S&M is different ! http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/work-it
LikeLike
This is pretty funny. When you need to start a fire, never mind popping into the nearest convenience store to buy a cheap disposable lighter. Tramp to IKEA instead, buy a whole trolley load of stuff costing far more than a lighter, and then proceed to wreck it all.
And notice the band-aid on the guy’s finger where he has cut himself with the knife. It’s not there at the beginning, before he has unpacked the knife, but then it suddenly appears after he has started to use the knife 🙂
Yes, we get the idea of a fire-drill aka bow drill (as opposed to a fire drill), but you can actually make one with stuff that you don’t need to go to IKEA to get. Any San hunter could tell you that.
LikeLike
That guy seems to be on the road to constructing Rube Goldberg machines. I will quote the description of the device (a self-operating napkin) illustrated on the Wikipedia page:
LikeLiked by 1 person
Soft spring rain falls outside, as the almost-summer of the last weeks is replaced by cold, near-freezing air, overcast, occasional snow-mixed rain and rain-mixed snow.
Actually, the ground is dangerously dry so I welcome the change but without enthusiasm.
LikeLike