0063.

Wagonaire.

0062.

"Stephen Dolan, a student at Trinity College Dublin, applied graph theory to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article, to find the "center" of Wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness), and to find out the shortest route between any two articles. As of 2008, the center of Wikipedia is 2007. From that article, it takes on average 3.45 clicks to get to any of the 2,111,479 articles reachable from it. Disregarding all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the center is United Kingdom, at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else."

0061.

Jerrycan.

0060.

"Unlike humans, horseshoe crabs do not have hemoglobin in their blood, but instead use hemocyanin to carry oxygen. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue."

0059.

"In 1965, two Amphicars successfully navigated the Yukon River."

0058.

"Theoretical projections place the top speed of a scramjet between Mach 12 and Mach 24, which is near orbital velocity."

0057.

Surviving falls from planes

and

List of sole survivors of airline accidents or incidents.

056.

"Peasants usually only had one set of clothing, two at most."

055.

World Sauna Championships.

0054.

0053.

I'm quite sure my life would gain a deeper, fuller, altogether greater sense of meaning, had I the periodic need to send some kind of object through a pneumatic tube.

0052.

Drill bit auction.

Oil rig auction.

0051.

Dueling scars.

0050.

Old dudes racing sidecars.

0049.

Namesake of the supercar,

"Murciélago was a Navarra fighting bull known for having survived 28 sword strokes in an October 5, 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain.

Murciélago fought with such passion and spirit that the crowd called for his life to be spared, an honor which the matador bestowed."

0048.

Sights of interest to roadgeeks.

0047.

Windscreen delamination.

0046.

Right on cue, indeed.

0045.

The Kaiser Traveler Hatchback Sedan.

0044.o

Fool's Gold Nuggets!

0043.

The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers.

0042.

Air bearing.

0041.

Mouse.

0040.

"Although [Sentinal Island] is likely to have suffered seriously from the effects of the December 2004 tsunami, the survival of the Sentinelese was confirmed when, some days after the event, an Indian government helicopter observed several of them, who shot arrows at the hovering aircraft to repel it."

0039.

Esperanto.

0038.

"As the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner. Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs. This, combined with intensive training, gave them unrivalled lung-power and breath capacity. Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice, as well as higher vocal ranges of the uncastrated adult male."

0037.

Canal inclined plane.

0036.

Falkirk Wheel.

0035.

Caisson lock.

0034.

Jackie Chan filmography.

0033.

"COFFEE POT? no, it's a KALEIDOSCOPE... Mr. Kaleidoscope is doing it again."

0032.

Social Security Cards Issued by Woolworth.

0031.

Punch perm.

0030.

0029.

"One way to examine the history of drafting pencils, and maybe pencils as a whole, is to understand today's thin lead mechanical pencils as the finest expression of pencil technology and that the history of drafting pencils has been a constant march toward thinner and thinner leads, ending in mechanisms and leads the precise thickness of the lines to be drawn with them.

"Fuck. That."

History of Leadholders.

0028.

Railbikes.

0027.

0026.

0025.

Radio Tower of the Week.

(2010 calendar, $18 + shipping).

0024.

"In the universe of hobby is not the single which is some-more sparkling than pciking up ball cards."

0023.

List of ghost ships.

0022.

You have bad taste in furniture.

0021.

"Deep 'V' hulls are the traditional solution for traveling at high speeds in offshore waters. By their nature they are planing craft and spend their time on the surface of the water. They are therefore, on occasion, subject to extreme vertical accelerations created by waves. Wave piercers are not completely novel as designers have been developing slim sharp fronted boats for years that are encouraged to cut through the waves rather than bouncing over them. The VSV™ (Very Slender Vessel) applies these principles to high-speed patrol vessels. This has enabled crews to travel at high speeds in adverse sea conditions in relative comfort and safety."

0020.

"Top 13 Polar Super Vehicles from Antarctic."

0019.

0018.

"Whale found with century-old harpoon under its skin."

0017.

Taupe.

0016.

"Building a fully submersible submarine is complicated and indiscreet, requiring highly skilled workers and a manufacturing facility that’s too big to be easily hidden. The alternative: semisubmersibles that, though considerably smaller than the sub found in the warehouse, can carry five times as much cocaine as a common fishing vessel."

0015.

"While the realities of fluid dynamics dictate that a teardrop shape is the ideal aerodynamic form, Kamm found that by cutting off / flattening the streamlined end of the tear at an intermediate point, and bringing that edge down towards the ground, he could gain most of the benefit of the teardrop shape without incurring such a large material, structural, and size problem. The airflow, once given the suggestion of the beginning of a turbulence-eliminating streamlined teardrop tail, tended to flow in an approximation of that manner regardless of the fact that the entire tail wasn't there. This is called the Kamm effect."

0014.

Borehole.

0013.

"Mammoth teeth grew similar to the process of a conveyor belt. Once a set of teeth was being completely worn down, a new set would be ready to grow in its place. This process would take place six times in a mammoth’s lifetime. In the final set, when the teeth wore down, the mammoth would slowly starve to death."

0012.

"Alexander Bichkov had lived a semi-feral existence in the woods for 20 years, terrorising locals and the police if they ventured near him..."

0011.

The creepiest.

0010.

"The most distinctive feature of the Oil Rocks is that it is actually a functional city with a population of about 5,000 and over 200 km (120 mi) of streets built on piles of dirt and landfill. Most of the inhabitants work on shifts; a week on Oil Rocks followed by a week on the shore. The small city includes shops, school and a library."

0009.

Iceberg B-15.

0008.

0007.

Tip jet.

0006.

Theoretical Megastructures.

0005.

Pipe.

0004.

"A drill bit in the shape of a Reuleaux triangle can, if mounted in a special chuck which allows for the bit not having a fixed centre of rotation, drill a hole that is very nearly a perfect square. Other Reuleaux polygons are used for drill bits for pentagonal, hexagonal, and octagonal holes."

0003.

Stapler Of The Week.

0002.

Battle Beasts.

0001.

Burden Carriers.