Ghost

 

Swindon back in the news*

Tired of Daylight-Saving Time Confusion? Just Opt Out

Stefano Pavone from Swindon, England, lives year-round on Greenwich Mean Time, the original standard time. He wears a watch on each wrist as a protest when the U.K. shifts to daylight-saving time from spring until fall. He says he has slept better since making the switch four years ago. “I just need to remember which one to look at when I have an appointment,” he says.

Since 1972, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) has been called Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). It is maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). It is also known as "Z time" or "Zulu Time".

*[H/T Jasper Fforde]

Coming to you from 1605

Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot
We see no reason
Why Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot….

 

"Fun" has a moment

How Morticians Are Putting the Fun in Funerals

At an industry convention in Baltimore last month, funeral directors were invited to a workshop on how to “build your preneed customer pipeline” and “generate warm leads.” Among the pro tips some have implemented: Dinners at cemeteries, so-called death cafes and burial-plot lotteries.

Beer on the rocks, and other campaign cuisine

Political Candidates Choke on Food, Drink Issues: Crudités, Corn Husks, Ice in Beer

Controversy bubbled over when word spread that the Colorado Republican sipped Michelob Ultra in a glass of ice during an interview. The partisan outrage spilled in a state awash in craft breweries, 428 at last count….

Infrastructure

 

Coffee studying: Is it the perfect job?

Starbucks secret: Dark French Roast ‘is not 100% coffee,’ says complaint

“This is strange and hard to believe,” said Taka Shibamoto, a distinguished emeritus professor at the UC Davis Coffee Center, which bills itself as the first academic facility entirely dedicated to studying coffee.”

I can see a whole new career. 

 

Maybe you shouldn't try this at home

Man slices through apples while bouncing on pogo stick for world record

He said the most difficult aspect of what he called the "pogo stick fruit ninja" record was learning to bounce on a pogo stick without using his hands.

Not everybody gets a Nobel

Geologist hopes to secure state honor for armored mud balls

Franklin County is understood to be the only place in the world to have easily observable Jurassic armored mud balls…