How are we ignoring our productive work today? Let me count the ways: Before you get those Chinese characters tatooed onto your body, you may want to make sure you know what they mean . WFMU's amazing Beware of the Blog examines the great TV episode titles of the 1980s , complete with a quiz. "A Lease With an Option to Die", anyone? Bullfighting for pacifists: bull-jumping . This 1952 Popular Mechanics article about how TV networks will cover that year's political conventions is worth a look for the swell-looking diagrams alone. Was there anything that didn't look better back then? I don't know who held the old world record for bike theft, but Canadian Igor Kenk's 2,396 stolen bicycles have to be the new record. The New York Times looks at what's at the last stop of the various lines of the NYC subway . Some great photos of the Big Apple's far reaches. Four O'Clock Flash: another Rube Goldberg-style game where you assemble convoluted machines? Sign me up. This one's called Fantastic Contraption , and it is pretty fantastic. ...
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