Tuesday, January 06, 2015

Miss Cellania's Links

The Name’s the Same. But two famous people with the same moniker can be very different.

Europe has a lot of American football teams and their names are hilarious. Who knew?

His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside.

The Worst (And Most Important) Smuggling Job in the History of Literature.

The Video for The End of the World. (via Uproxx)

The Mars Curiosity rover’s wheels are displaying severe damage due to the rough Martian rocks. Emily Lakdawalla found out exactly what’s happening to the wheels and how it will affect Curiosity’s mission. (via Metafilter)

Marvel had a Star Wars comic book series running between the release of the original trilogy movies, but they didn’t know what would happen in the sequels. That’s the part you have to remember when you read this letter to the editor printed in one of those comics in 1979.

When an Avalanche of Trash Killed 143 People. Unmanaged garbage in mountain-sized piles does not just sit there -there’s dangerous stuff going on inside.

Not prestige, not trash: The rise of “mid-reputable” TV. The midpoint between “award-winning” and “guilty pleasure” could be just plain entertainment.

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is where novelist Stephen King was inspired to write The Shining. The current owners are building a hedge maze, and holding a contest to design it.  (via OTIS (Odd Things I’ve Seen))

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