{"id":3235,"date":"2014-09-13T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2014-09-13T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T19:01:25","slug":"odd-lots-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Stonehenge may be the largest neolithic monument in its immediate area, but it is not alone: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/stonehenge-not-alone-more-monuments-detected-nearby-n200221\" target=\"_blank\">New research shows that dozens of smaller monuments exist around it and may be related to it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a beefy, detailed description of <a href= \"http:\/\/foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com\/lockheeds-senior-peg-the-forgotten-stealth-bomber-1534057907\" target=\"_blank\">how the B-2 stealth bomber could have been something else entirely<\/a>, if Lockheed&#8217;s Skunk Works had won the day.<\/li>\n<li>That piece led to <a href= \"http:\/\/aviationintel.com\/northrop-xst-loser-become-f-117-nighthawk\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>, about the deep roots of the F-117 Nighthawk.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/09\/eruption-update-sulfur-dioxide-threatens-iceland-lava-flows-continue-kilauea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iceland&#8217;s Holuhraun eruption is throwing off a growing cloud of sulfur dioxide that has reached 1 ppm in eastern Iceland<\/a>, and has been detected all the way across the Atlantic in Norway and Scotland. Please let this not be <a href= \"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/06\/local-and-global-impacts-1793-laki-eruption-iceland\/\" target=\"_blank\">another Laki<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Reports like that make me wonder <a href= \"http:\/\/www.abc2news.com\/weather\/weather-blogs\/winter-of-2014-2015-signals-tell-a-very-ominous-tale\" target=\"_blank\">if this won&#8217;t be a buttwhumping winter in the Northern Hemisphere<\/a>. We had our first snow of the season yesterday, which is earlier than I&#8217;ve seen since we moved to Colorado Springs in 2003. Last winter was brutal.<\/li>\n<li>Most people outside the US do not refrigerate eggs. <a href= \"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/09\/11\/336330502\/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s why<\/a>. (Thanks to Tony Kyle for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>As I&#8217;ve said several times, Carol and I no longer refrigerate butter. A stick lasts us about five days (used to be a week before I started eating two eggs fried in butter every morning) and that&#8217;s nowhere near long enough for butter to go bad. <a href= \"http:\/\/thevivant.com\/mythbusters-refrigerate-butter\/\" target= \"_blank\">Part of the reason is the salt<\/a>. I find it intriguing that not one of ten or twelve sites I read about butter spoilage would quote a time limit of how long butter can sit &#8220;out&#8221; without refrigeration. This suggests that the answer is &#8220;so long that we would lose face for admitting it, so we won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From the Words-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: <em><a href= \"https:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\/orthorexia-nervosa\" target=\"_blank\">Orthorexia<\/a><\/em>, an eating disorder characterized by obsession with &#8220;righteous eating;&#8221; that is, making yourself sick over whether or not you&#8217;re &#8220;eating healthy.&#8221; (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for bringing this to my attention.)<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20140908\/04435128452\/turns-out-cell-phone-location-data-is-not-even-close-to-accurate-everyone-falls-it.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Cell phone location data is imprecise, to put it mildly<\/a>. (I&#8217;d use stronger terms if I were in a worse mood.)<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/09\/the-evil-reign-of-the-red-delicious\/379892\/?single_page=true\" target=\"_blank\">A lousy article about apples<\/a>. Plus <a href= \"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2013\/04\/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">a good one<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I may have posted links to <a href= \"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2007\/08\/worlds-smallest-vehicles.html\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a> or <a href= \"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/05\/worlds-smallest-cars-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a> of <a href= \"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2010\/07\/adorable-micro-cars-part-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a> DRB collections before. I don&#8217;t care. You just can&#8217;t have too many pictures of screwy little tiny cars, plus a little tank and other minuscule laughable things having wheels.<\/li>\n<li>Or <a href= \"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2011\/03\/radical-screw-propelled-vehicles.html\" target=\"_blank\">screws<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stonehenge may be the largest neolithic monument in its immediate area, but it is not alone: New research shows that dozens of smaller monuments exist around it and may be related to it. 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