Yet more keen links one might want to share

[Diaphone Jim]

Are ambulances trucks?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'd say technically yes, but practically no.

[glatt]

I understand they have special shocks for a smoother ride. Other than that, I would say trucks.

[Gravdigr]

I often wonder why it takes a thirty thousand pound truck to carry three ppl, a resuscitator, an O2 tank, and some band-aids.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You don't have to be into basketball to appreciate Steve francis' story.

Just think about this.…
At 18, I’m selling baggies on the corner in Takoma Park, getting robbed at gunpoint.
At 22, I’m getting drafted into the National Basketball Association, shaking David Stern’s hand.
Guess where the draft was held that year? Washington, D.C.
How the hell do you explain that?

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex.

A wide variety of powerpoints none of which reveal secrets but are interesting nonetheless. Things like...

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is a very good article on driftwood and the relationship between forests, rivers and the ocean.

Driftwood makes an enormous if underappreciated contribution to the food web connecting the forests and the sea. From streams to estuaries to the deep ocean floor, driftwood shapes every environment it passes through. While there’s an awareness that temperate rainforests are enriched with nitrogen from the marine environment, delivered by decomposing salmon, less well known is the fact that dead trees from those same forests travel to the sea and become a vital source of food and habitat. Driftwood is in need of a PR campaign, celebrity spokesperson, or publicist at the very least. Driftwood, it turns out, is also rapidly disappearing.

[Gravdigr]

Calvin and Hobbes, and Bloom County, titans of newspaper comics pages, team up

Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County crossed over today in a throwback comics-page mega-team-up 30 years in the making. Pardon me, Avengers: Infinity War, this is the most ambitious crossover event in history.

The strip, titled “Calvin County,” ran today on Bloom County creator Berkeley Breathed’s Facebook page. If you’re a fan of one or both features, or just have a deep nostalgia for 1980s popular culture (which may be keener because of a certain flick that’s out right now), go visit, read it, and say thanks.

[Happy Monkey]

I just saw an episode of Blue Planet 2 (excellent) that said that scientists now think that baby sea turtles spend much of their time growing to adulthood on and around a piece of driftwood they find. Without something to rest on, and a source of algae (when they're tiny) or crustaceans/limpets/small fish as they get bigger, they won't live long enough to do open ocean hunting.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Merriam-Webster dictionary added these words the year I was born. Being during the Big One, WW II, some are expected, but a lot of them like Autism and Garbanzo bean surprised me.

ACTH, aerosolize, after-tax, agamospermy, airwave, allicin, amtrac, antigravitym, anti-radar, arrestee, autism, auxotrophic, babysit, banzai attack, battle fatigue, bigeye tuna, black-legged tick, block diagram, booster shot, boxer shorts, brain cramp, Bronze Star, buddy-buddy, bungee cord, butcher block, Byelorussian, caprolactam, carpet-bomb, chad, choke point, coliphage, collision course, corticosteroid, countercountermeasure, countercyclical, craton, crib death, cutthroat contract, cyclicity, dead presidents, death camp, debone, debrief, debug, deck shoe, depressurize, descramble, desert locust, deskbound, diapausing, dishpan hands, DNA, double-check, dough box, DP, echolocation, economy of scale, electromyography, electrophotography, elevon, encrypt, epoxidation, escalate, expressway, eye lift, FAD, fan fiction, federalese, flash back, flight suit, fluxgate, flying bomb, folate, footsie, forklift, garbanzo bean, garrison cap, gas-operated, gasser, general of the army, genocide, glop, gobbledygook, granulocytopoiesis, grease pencil, G suit, gunslinging, hardstand, hiatal hernia, in-flight, inseminator, island-hop, isoline, jade plant, jellied gasoline, jug-eared, jumpsuit, junker, kamikaze, kolkhoznik, kombucha, lamebrain, latchkey child, lawman, layaway, lead time, Lewis acid, lignan, limited-access, lithium fluoride, live-in, livetrap, lysergic acid, diethylamide, Markovian, MIA, microform, miracle drug, mouton, mud flap, multidisciplinary, musculoskeletal, nonbehavioral, nonsecretor, nose job, numero uno, offtrack, old-shoe, osmolality, pachygyria, palletize, palynology, paraglider, PBX, pec, perinatal, periodontics, permanent press, perv, PETN, photo-essay, photophase, place setting, platform rocker, ploughman's lunch, point man, Polonia, polyacrylamide, posttransfusion, potline, premenstrual syndrome, prepackage, prestructure, prill, primary atypical pneumonia, Progressive Conservative, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyrolysate, quiz show, radome, rappel, returnee, R factor, rimland, rotator cuff, rust bucket, sacrifice fly, scalogram, sclerotherapy, sealant, Security Council, self-worth, shigellosis, short subject, silicone rubber, sinusoidal projection, skimobile, small screen, snorkel, sock in, soilborne, spanakopita, spelunking, spider plant, spinto, spiral binding, split screen, split-second, stanine, staycation, streptokinase, streptomyces, streptomycin, superglue, swabbie, tephra, terminal leave, thalassemia major, thalassemia minor, theory of games, theta rhythm, thin film, thrift shop, top secret, tow truck, transdermal, transmembrane, transponder, trash fish, trickle-down, troland, turbojet engine, unadult, undershorts, V-1, V-2, vegan, vesting, videogenic, videophone, wingding, Winnie, zero-sum.

You can check on any year here.

[Undertoad]

1963

phat

!

[Clodfobble]

1980: homeschool

[Pamela]

1967:


aerobics, agroecology, air ball, andropause, anti-marijuana, anti-pot, antisocial personality disorder, Asian carp, assertiveness training, audiocassette, automatic teller machine, b-ball, Beeb, bias-belted tire, bikie, biotech, blue flu, boardsailing, B-school, cannabinoid, cannellini bean, cephalexin, Chicana, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chump change, circular file, cluster bomb, cochair, codec, command sergeant major, conceptual art, crackback, credentialism, cutoff man, DBCP, delocutive, dextromethorphan, dietary supplement, dirtbag, dirty laundry, disintermediation, doobie, dork, DOS, downhiller, echocardiogram, ego trip, eiswein, el cheapo, encounter group, endonucleolytic, estrogen replacement therapy, fanny pack, fantasyland, fast-pitch, fast-track, fido, firmware, first world, flokati rug, floor-through, flower child, flower people, flower power, franchisor, frostnip, fry-up, full-bore, gap junction, gastric bypass, gazar, geminal, gofer, G-protein, green paper, group home, hand-holding, haplotype, heliosphere, hip pointer, hissy fit, honeybell, house dust mite, humongous, ibuprofen, idiotype, informatics, interrobang, Inupiat, jihadist, jukeki, Korat, Krugerrand, labelmate, land yacht, likuta, locked-in, loogie, love-in, low-tech, lunar module, maxi, max out, megacity, melanize, merc, microquake, midi, mid-rise, midsize, minicomputer, minipark, MIRV, monohull, muffuletta, mycoplasma-like organism, networking, no-fault, nonoxynol-9, nonprint, nonprogrammer, nonstory, nurse practitioner, ocicat, omega-3, on-target, original equipment manufacturer, overstored, owie, panda car, paramedic, Peter Principle, platemaker, postcode, prepsychedelic, preregistration, primary care, proabortion, proteoglycan, psychedelia, radioallergosorbent, recreational drug, resid, rip off, RV, samizdat, scag, self-professed, self-similarity, sene, seniti, shabu-shabu, she-crab, shiatsu, Shoah, sickie, side-scan sonar, slimmer, slimnastics, slo-pitch, slow-pitch, slow-wave sleep, sound-and-light show, spaghetti western, speed freak, SQUID, staff sergeant major, STP, stun gun, subemployed, subemployment, sudser, supergraphics, supermodel, tachyon, tae kwon do, technetronic, technostructure, teenybop, tender offer, THC, thebe, trackball, trank, tree ear, trijet, turfski, unflashy, user fee, verapamil, vibe, videoconferencing, videoland, voc-ed, water pill, wet bar, whacked-out, wideout, word processing, yada yada, Yanomami, Z, zaire, zester, zonked-out



Z???

[BigV]

nonword

Hahahaha!

[xoxoxoBruce]

You can make your own at http://thousandsunder90.com/