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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    I remember the event clearly. There was a famous statement about the attempted coverup of the mistakes made by Air New Zealand and how they tried to shift the blame to the pilots by Justice Mahon where he described evidence given by Air New Zealand as "an orchestrated litany of lies".
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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    Not one of the good ones. At least now there are treatments such as chelation therapy for both mercury and lead poisoning.
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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    All the sources I have checked say it was the mercury vapour inhaled during the felting process. Lead was certainly an issue for painters and has different symptoms to mercury exposure. Another mercury related factoid, one of the first photographic processes, the daguerreotype, used vaporised...
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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    The highest mountain in the world, if measured from the center of the earth and not sea level, is Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.
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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    We have checked the data, and the result is statistically significant when adjustment is made for outliers.
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    Fun Factoid Of The Day

    The expression "mad as a hatter" comes from the use of mercury in the felting process. Mercury exposure is not great for the ongoing health of the brain.
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    Most Underrated Album from the Mid-1980s

    Should have been much bigger. The Bailter Space Tanker album. Their previous incarnation, the Gordons, was a big influence on bands like Sonic Youth. Not bad for a bunch of guys from a small town in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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    Revitalizing AK

    And if you live with other people you can listen whenever you want. At volumes you want to and not disturb others. Add to that the fact high res players are getting really affordable and that you can load a lot of music onto them without needing to cart a huge stack of CD's with you it's a win...
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    Revitalizing AK

    Yeap, the sad "get off my lawn" BS I hear from my generation so often.
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    Revitalizing AK

    A lot of the ones I know stream hi res music at home, and not to Bluetooth speakers You need to listen to some good quality headphones. Often better sound than speakers as no room effects to get in the way. Try some Grado's or Shennheiser. I like my HD660S2's.
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    Revitalizing AK

    I have been here for a while now so I'm going to make a couple of suggestions about ways to encourage people to stay here after they find the site: Less of the "this is a Boys Club Only" attitude that is pretty strong amongst a subset of people here. Stop bitching about young people and the...
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    Bad Chinese translations make the world go round

    B and P, kind of look the same ....
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    Bad Chinese translations make the world go round

    I've seen similar miss-spelling all over the supposedly English speaking world. At least in most Asian countries they at least try to have an English equivalent for foreigners.
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    Bad Chinese translations make the world go round

    Didn't meet him, but there is/was a white guy in Hong Kong who went with his then local girlfriend to get a tattoo. Unfortunately he didn't know that she knew he had been somewhat liberal with his affections and she was about to dump him. She gave the tattooist the characters for something like...
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    Bad Chinese translations make the world go round

    I can remeber when Japanese kanji was very popular in the 80's. People walking around with Tshirts that said "Fire Sale" "Large Bird" and Where is the Fire Station?" in kanji. One of my friends was a Japanese translator and they would often laugh when she saw people wearing them.
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