A surprising passage in The Adventure of the Dancing Men:
[Sherlock] Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
“I thought so,” said he; “the revolver had an ejector, and here is the third cartridge. . . .”
Were ejecting revolvers ever common?
The price of eternal vigilance is indifference. —Marshall McLuhan
noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.
I see that in Yahoo’s Chinese translation my name is “安東 Sherwood”, i.e. Anton becomes ‘peace+east’ (which in Japanese is pronounced antō, unfortunately).
Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.
I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock