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fark.com This site is like Google News, but less high-tech and a lot less serious. Users submit links to news stories, which are categorized and labeled by the wiseacres at fark.com. (Labels include “stupid,” “asinine” and, the pinnacle, “Florida.”) Check the site daily for a dose of offbeat news, such as a recent story about London Zoo workers smearing cellphones with hot mustard to deter squirrel monkeys who have been stealing them. A link to another story includes this blurb: “If you see a sweatshirt hanging from [a] power line, using a metal pole to knock it down isn’t really a great idea. Trying to sue your employer for $195,990 in medical bills isn’t a great idea, either.” This actually happened, folks.
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MythBusters The best reality show at 8 p.m. Wednesday nights isn’t “American Idol.” It’s a show about blowing up stuff in the name of science. There’s an urban legend that using your cellphone while filling your gas tank will blow up your car. There’s another one that dropping a penny from the top of the Empire State Building will kill pedestrians below. But are they true? Special-effects pros Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate myths like these with a blend of entertainment and pseudo-science in this highly charged and educational Discovery Channel program. Discovery runs repeats of the show all week long, so you can catch up on old myths – and find out whether the above are true.
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Mesa Verde National Park: The First 100 Years The mysterious, thousand-year-old Pueblo Indian cliff dwellings in southwest Colorado have fascinated modern man since they were discovered by European settlers. To preserve the area, President Theodore Roosevelt christened it Mesa Verde National Park in 1906. The United Nations has since designated Mesa Verde a World Heritage Cultural Site. Colorado historian Tom Noel says “from the U.N.’s global perspective, it may be the most important historic site in this country.” The park turns 100 on June 29. The book, with a poetic foreward by former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, digs into Mesa Verde’s archaeological history and belongs on the coffee table of every historically conscious Coloradan.
