Look What I Found Today!

It’s been one of those days. Nothing interesting has caught my eye. Consider this an open thread. What have YOU found today?

It’s not just celebrities who come up with bizarre names for their kids. How about Emma Royd? Who would saddle their kid with the cringe-inducing Mayo Head? Ancestry.com dug up all those real names, and more.

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Via msnbc.com.

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue … and thought he landed in India.

5OO+ years later, we celebrate it as a holiday. Of course, the Vikings were here first. They apparently had the good sense not to declare it to the world.

At any rate, this is a Federal Holiday, which means nothing to those of us who toil away at a computer all day long, crafting words from the ether. Or something like that.

I take it back: the day does have some meaning. No mail delivery. No checks in the mail, but no rejections in the mail, either. And even if a check did have the temerity to make its way through the Postal Service to the mailbox (read: it got delivered to a neighbor who put it in my box, and I managed to find it before the neighborhood thieves), the bank wouldn’t be open to cash it.

The holiday didn’t stop the stock markets. Nor did it stop the news cycle.

Ah, perhaps I’m just still feeling down from the con crud.

That, or just the fact that it’s Monday. That must be it.

I’m about to date myself: I grew up during the tail end of the “cast iron bra” era of SF art. A woman wasn’t a woman unless she wore metal undergarments. Rust must have been a real problem.

I suppose that’s why this story at Gizmodo grabbed my attention. It seems that police in Germany have developed the undergarment for female officers. If I read the article correctly, it says that a woman can get injured when wearing a regular bra under a bulletproof vest because of the metal and plastic parts. This bra doesn’t have any of that. Indeed, it looks pretty much like a jogging bra.

(I was going to grab a picture, but the web site was experiencing problems. You can see a picture and the full story in German at Bild.)

I wonder if they’ll hold up to ray guns and bug-eyed monsters.

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