Led Zeppelin‘s classic “Whole Lotta Love” was a blatant ripoff of Willie Dixon‘s song “You Need Love” but you knew that already, yah?
Early on, the band was predicted to fail “like a lead balloon,” so they adopted the name, replaced “balloon” with “zeppelin” then spelled their name “Led Zeppelin” instead of “Lead Zeppelin” to keep people from pronouncing it “leed“. Not sure if it’s true, but it sounds plausible.
The Stick – Jonathan Winters.
The Pencil – Milton Friedman.
The Axe – Ed Ames.
Double muscling is the result of a genetic mutation that causes a lack of Myostatin. It’s been observed in cattle, goats, sheep, dogs, rabbits and mice. (In rabbits, their tongues also enlarge and get really strong. Hunh.)
Double muscling occurs in humans as well.
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[Top image: Best Salesman Trophy Figurine. Source undetermined.]
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Heh.
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[Found in here. Warning – every link I clicked to find the original source sent me somewhere I didn’t want to go. There are more Rear Heads here.]
[Found at the University of California website.]
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Finally, some hand-crafted Javascript.
A Proportional-Integral-Derivative controlled (PID), 6 degree of freedom (6-DOF) Stewart platform is very cool.
Fake Hate Crimes in the U.S. Database [via].
Although my kids drew it on their notebooks, I still don’t know what it means.
[Top image coopted and edited from here. She once lived here. Related post here.]
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