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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Mr. Yuk
Do you remember Mr. Yuk? I sure do. We had him plastered to cleaning product bottles under my kitchen sink as a child. I knew not to drink stuff with Mr. Yuk on the bottle – but apparently not everyone kid did. The campaign was considered ineffective. I didn’t know (until now), however, that Mr Yuk had a theme tune.
FLV Embed Plugin
I have been recently using a great new wordpress plugin on Artifacting to display flash movies. Examples of it in use can be seen here and here. The plugin is called FLV Embed and was created by Yaosan Yeo. I’ve tried several other plugins that perform a similar functions and this is by far the best one I’ve found so far. Ultra simple installation, tons of options and customizations, and ease of use make this a plugin worth looking into if you want to display .flv movies on your site.
Robinson “Hubs” Crusoe
I’ve wrote about purchasing an island before. I think I’ve found the one I want. Now I just need to come up with the $75,000,000
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: The Grandfather Paradox
The paradox is this: Suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the traveler’s grandmother. As a result, one of the traveller’s parents and by extension, the traveler himself would never have been conceived. This would imply that he could not have traveled back in time after all, which in turn implies the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveler would have been conceived, allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather. Thus each possibility seems to imply its own negation, a type of logical paradox. The grandfather paradox has been used to argue that backwards time travel must be impossible. However, other resolutions have also been advanced.
An equivalent paradox is known in philosophy as autoinfanticide — that is, going back in time and killing oneself as a baby — though when the word was first coined in a paper by Paul Horwich it was in the malformed version autofanticide.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: The Mongolian Death Worm
The Mongolian Death Worm is a cryptid reported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally considered a cryptozoological creature, one whose sightings and reports are disputed or unconfirmed. There are a number of extraordinary claims by Mongolian locals (such as the ability of the worm to spew forth a yellow poison that is lethal on contact, and its purported ability to kill at a distance by means of electric discharge). However, there are no known reliable sightings.
Big, Hard, Throbbing Buildings
Speaking of threatening wieners, check out this gallery of phallic buildings. The winner of their “most phallic building ever” award goes to the “big brick dick” in Ann Arbor, Michigan.