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Jenga!

In fun, wikipedia on 17 September 2006 with no comments

Jenga: taking the world by storm again
Jenga is a game of physical and mental skill, marketed by Hasbro, in which players remove blocks from a tower and put them on top. The player who causes the tower to collapse loses. The word jenga is derived from kujenga the Swahili word for “build”, jenga is the […]

Vespa mandarinia

In nature, science, wikipedia on 3 September 2006 with no comments

The world’s largest wasp.
The hornets often attack honeybee hives with the goal of obtaining the honeybee larvae. The hornets can devastate a colony of honeybees: a single hornet can kill as many as 40 honeybees per minute; it takes only a few of these hornets a few hours to exterminate the population of a 30,000-member […]

Wikipedia roundup

In architecture, culture, science, wikipedia on 18 June 2006 with no comments

Some interesting, late night Sunday reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_metro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory