http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/jay-z-and-alan-lomax/ How a folk song collector wound up as the legal co-author of a Jay-Z diss track.

http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/ This guy reverse engineered these Christmas lights and published a guide on programming them. They're kinda expensive but otherwise a really nifty Christmas decoration.

http://civilwarstoriesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/rebel-snowball-wars-fighting-winter-boredom/ Historical accounts of a snowball battle between northern and southern armies in the Civil War.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/23/how-to-get-12-billion-of-gold-to-venezuela/ An analysis of the challenge of transporting gold across the Atlantic.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6667949/pappy-van-winkle A short story on Pappy Van Winkle, a rare bourbon. Bonus Bourbon recipe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick Wikipedia on the history of tally sticks throughout the ages and how they were used.

http://fuckyouziggy.blogspot.com/ No love for Ziggy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0RZbrzOBxg A video of one of the explosions done to mine out the future Second Avenue Subway in NYC.

http://buttersafe.com/2011/09/08/disaster/ Disaster.

http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831 A guide to configuring your hardware serial terminal with MacOS X's gettys.