Ultimate Bloggability

Here are far too many links that I've come across since last week's post:

First of all the story of Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet Lt. Col. who plausibly averted a worldwide nuclear disaster by keeping a cool head when his computers told him America was launching an all-out nuclear attack on the USSR.

From the heroic to the more sordid history of Britain, an archived sex survey of Britons taken in 1949 has just been opened and apparently that British stereotype we all know and love must have been a relatively new invention. Reuters

Next is something more handy than cool: the site PDFOnline lets anyone convert a bunch of the most common file types into PDFs for free!

Airline security has been a contentious subject lately but Israel's El Al has 'em all beat (USA Today); and apparently some airlines are going all out to get passengers to turn off their phones...including lying to them. Freakonomics

Brief summary of a humorous story: When a lady in Surrey changed the battery in her electronic car key fob she could no longer start her car, the AA guy who turned up found that the RFID chip had been eaten by the family dog, thus the solution is to now place the dog in the driver's seat before the lady can start her car.

According to a study in the U.K., the length of a woman's ring-finger is a fair judge of how good she could be at sport. Reuters

A link here to an article in the Register about a giant insect in Germany. It's pretty clearly a scrwed up shot from GoogleEarth. What's a bit cooler is the set of links to 'Related Stories' at the end of the page with all manner of satellite-spotted suprises.

And finally, for a bit of fun: this might just be the worst source of 'good' music I've ever seen.
And this is the best ad for the iPod Shuffle I've seen yet.