January 18, 2008
Origami, rodents, flags, and chess
Japanese scientists will launch a paper airplane from the International Space Station.Two million years ago, bull-sized, hippo-headed rodents roamed South America.
New Zealand philosophy lecturer Josh Parsons ranks the world's flags.
Chess master Bobby Fischer died in Reykjavik Thursday. Obits: 1, 2.
Labels: animals, news, science, space, weird
by Econ at 12:06 PM |
5 Comments:
Read the flag grading methodology if you do nothing else: here
Personally, I like Brazil's flag.
This guy's a hack. I'm a big fan of the tricolor. Plus, I think he misses the point on a few of these designs. An example (Pakistan): "Best use of the star and crescent. Unfortunately, it depicts something astronomically impossible, namely the eclipse of the moon by a star."
How is that relevent?
And how the hell is the Swedish flag "too garish"?
Oh, and he hates Nepal's flag. How can anyone hate a flag that's two triangles put together?
Well, he didn't naysay all tri-colors. He said the classic ones are fine, just not the wannabes who came to the tri-color scene post-nineteenth century.
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