[Amazing] Link25 (228) – Friday The 13th Edition
It’s Friday the 13th. For some, this day is just like any other day. However, for others, this Friday is a day charged with negative energy brimming with bad luck. But not to worry. If you feel like staying home, safe from all the potential dangers this dark day may present, we got you covered. On today’s Link25 we explore this week’s most exciting content on the internet such as Honest Trailers’ The Princess Bride, how a lawsuit over hot coffee helped erode the 7th amendment, how did Friday the 13th become so unlucky, and so much more. So get ready, because this is Link25 (228) – Friday the 13th Edition.
Usually, when you hear stories like this, they come from our mates over in the US of A. However on this occasion a member of our great nation has deemed it necessary to do something outrageous and install a train horn on his or her car.
God bless dash cams. Without those beautiful little devices, how would we be able to delight in such delightfully shameful feats as a motorist upgrading their car horn purely for the purpose of (click on the title to read the full article).
Friday the 13th, considered by many as one of the unluckiest days of the year, is almost here again.
If you are worried about what’s in store this time, then you’re not alone. Psychologists have even come up with a word for how you’re feeling – paraskavedekatriaphobia, or fear of Friday the 13th.
One option is to stay tucked up in bed all day to avoid any (Click on the title to read the full article).
Like much of the Pacific Northwest, Washington’s Puget Sound is a lush landscape full of extensive waterways and incredible scenery. To build a sensible home among this gorgeous landscape, remaining keenly aware of the area’s natural surrounding should undoubtedly be any architect’s chief concern — something the Seattle-based architecture firm MW Works pulled off with ease on a recent project. Designed and built with local hikers, climbers, and campers in mind, this sleek cabin exudes (click on the title to read the full article).
In 1890, a group of eight large New York City bakeries combined to form the New York Biscuit Company and built a giant six-story factory in West Chelsea. Eight years later, they merged with their competitor, Chicago’s American Biscuit and Manufacturing to form an even larger conglomerate – the National Biscuit Company, but the factory and headquarters remained in (click on the title to read the full article).
Whether it’s from a surgical procedure, clumsy shaving, or that traumatic biking incident that happened when you were five, just about everyone has a scar they wish would just fade away.
And while there’s not a whole lot that can be done for scars that are (Click on the title to read the full article).
In 1992, an elderly woman in New Mexico bought coffee at a McDonald’s drive through, spilled it on herself, and successfully sued for nearly $3 million.
This story is the poster child for the absurdity of the American legal system. Nearly every late night comic has a bit about suing over hot coffee. In a Seinfeld episode, Kramer burns himself while hiding coffee in his pants as he enters a movie theater. “You’re gonna walk out of [the courtroom] a rich man,” his lawyer tells him confidently as they (click on the title to read the full article).
MARK ZUCKERBERG HASN’T said he wants to be president. But if someone were to run for office, that someone might want to line up a few things to prepare for the possibility. A few things that Facebook’s CEO has done. Uncanny, right?
To be clear, setting the table doesn’t mean Zuckerberg plans to sink his teeth into electoral politics. But he’s made some moves in the past few days that (click on the title to read the full article).
