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January 10, 2014 04:47 pm PST
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Incredibly Interesting Authors 004: Greg Ross of FutilityCloset
For nine years the popular website Futility Closet has collected arresting curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics. This book presents the best of them: pipe-smoking robots, clairvoyant pennies, zoo jailbreaks, literary cannibals, corned beef in space, revolving squirrels, disappearing Scottish lighthouse keepers, reincarnated pussycats, dueling Churchills, horse spectacles, onrushing molasses, and hundreds more.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FvcgVXswRrs/story01.htm
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