Sometimes you learn things about history that tear apart all your old assumptions. For example: the Twitter account @History_Pics tweeted out this amazing photo, with the caption "The battleship Missouri second before being struck by a kamikaze in 1945."
You might wonder why they didn't react quicker. That's because they are toys.
I had no idea we drafted plastic toys to fight in WW2. As it turns out, though, we didn't. Wikipedia:
The entry has the following picture:
It's a fine idea; the next thing should be THAT, which points people to the worst thing on the web that day, then THE OTHER THING, which consists of one link to the most irrelevant thing. The three sites will eventually form PronounMedia, which will raise $350 million in its first round, hire a bunch of people to grow the brand, spend $65 million on an app, get bought by yo.com, which then shutters THAT and THE OTHER THING in order to "concentrate on core strengths."
Speaking of which, remember ello? Everyone wanted to be on it because only a few people could be on it. Then they let more people in, and the people who wanted to be in had forgotten about it. I got my invite last week, and shrugged: oh, right, that. Go to the home page. They have a nifty effect. And by "nifty" I mean it's quite possible you will feel your stomach turn. It's the most polarizing thing I've ever seen; everyone to whom I've shown the effect rears back a bit, as if they've just seen someone cheerfully bend his forearm or pull his earlobe down four inches like a Command adhesive tab.
SPQR Rome's Flavian Amphitheater is being cleaned and repaired, and they're finding interesting details:
