From the Conditions of Contest for KO teams:

Should any head-to-head match end in a tie, a 4-board play-off will be played (2 boards in Compact KO events). Should the first play-off end in a tie, continuing 2 board play-offs will be played until the tie is resolved. In the special case of Compact Knockouts where there is another match to play in ( Read more... )

America's worst charities: "organizations that took in more than $1 billion over the past 10 years, and gave almost all of that money to their own staffs and professional solicitors."

The first things ever posted at famous websites: includes links to the first YouTube upload, the first tweet, and the first LJ post ( Read more... )

Did you know: there's a national competition for the best-tasting tap water? "in 2008, twelve years after being trademarked, Pure Tap lived up to its name by winning the "Best of the Best" tap water national title in a blind taste test at the American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference & Exhibition." via boingboing

Why do trains stay ( Read more... )

On tonight's After the Catch, they included footage of the Hillstrands on a celebrity edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, including the following $100,000 question:

Before becoming a celebrity doctor, which of the following advice-givers was a trained sniper?

A. Dr. Oz
B. Dr. Laura
C. Dr. Ruth
D. Dr. Phil

( Answer below cut. Don't look down at the entry tags either... )

A while back I ran across Stigler's Law on Wikipedia:

In its simplest and strongest form it says: "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." Stigler named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law", consciously making "Stigler's law" exemplify Stigler's law."Naturally, there is also ( Read more... )

... besides A, B, and O, there are *30* other blood types, including two only recently discovered/confirmed?

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and a postscript:

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As for me, I'm still wondering why Squidward only has 6 appendages and doesn't wear pants.

I am mildly surprised that Wikipedia does not have a page for "List of carton characters that don't wear pants." But Google turns up several links, for example:

What cartoon characters wear only shirts, not pants? (Yahoo Answers)

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New Species Named For SpongeBob SquarePants

"Sing it with us: What lives in the rainforest, under a tree? Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of mushroom almost as strange as its cartoon namesake. Scientists from the San Francisco State University have discovered a new species of mushroom in Borneo with sponge-like properties. Its strange ( Read more... )

I've been fighting a ear/throat/head cold thing since my birthday. Naturally I picked up some of my good old friend, NyQuil. This stuff fucking rocks ( Read more... )

via slashdot, the BBC reports that Libya is cracking down on inappropriate .ly domains:

Co-founder of vb.ly Ben Metcalfe warned that "other ly domains are being deregistered and removed without warning ( Read more... )