Tumblrus Maximus

Too cool too ignore. Too tangential to blog about. Perfectly tumblable.

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Please feel free to use, and circulate widely amongst all true lovers of real cricket.

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For a while, their message was everywhere. They paid for billboards, took out full-page ads in newspapers, distributed thousands of tracts. They drove across the county in RVs emblazoned with verses from the books of Revelation and Daniel. They marched around Manhattan holding signs. They broadcasted day and night on their network of radio stations. They warned the world. That warning turned out to be a false alarm. No giant earthquake rippled across the surface of the earth, nor were any believers caught up in the clouds. Harold Camping, the octogenarian whose nightly Bible call-in show fomented doomsday mania, suffered a stroke soon afterward and mostly disappeared from sight. The press coverage, which had been intense in the weeks leading up to May 21, 2011, dwindled to nothing. The story, as far as most people were concerned, was over. But I wanted to know what happens next. If you’re absolutely sure the world is going to end on a specific day, and it doesn’t, what do you do? How do you explain it to yourself? What happens to your faith in God? Can you just scrape the bumper stickers off your car, throw away the t-shirts, and move on?

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now? | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches

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Bono and Richard Dawkins running for pope? This betting site seems to think so. 

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Once it was a killing field, the site of one of the most notorious massacres in the 1994 genocide. Now, a few miles away from this small patch of land near the Rwandan capital, Kigali, there are plans to build a world-class cricket stadium, with the first phase to be completed by April next year, the 20th anniversary of the killings. It will replace the ground the Rwanda Cricket Association has been using since 2002 located within the grounds of a college in Kicukiro where the massacre took place.

Cricket stadium to rise in shadow of Rwandan massacre | World news | The Guardian

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OH MY GOD I WANT THIS NOW!

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In February, 2013, Tate Modern mounts a retrospective into one of the great American artists of the twentieth century, Roy Lichtenstein. It’s not the first time London has hosted an exhibition from the Pop Art master.

Highly evocative of the period, this 1968 film – part of the Art Council’s archive collection – captures an intriguing and intelligent set of responses to a previous Lichtenstein show at the Tate.

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Why does this never happen to me?

(via BBC News - Van Dyck painting 'found online')

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Gangnam Han Solo Style (by KhalidSMShahin)

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

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5 Stars Kyle B. Good brick. Perfect for the family.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Yelp Reviews of a Brick, a Twig, and the 8th Click Sound Made by Six Flags’ Kingda Ka Rollercoaster During its Initial Ascent.

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A series of trenches dug in 1914, used by soldiers in Scotland for training purposes, are set to be preserved. (via WWI training trenches to be preserved | A Blog About History - History News)

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(via 25 Kitchen Items You Can Replace With a Stand Mixer: A Visual Guide | The Kitchn)

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- AJP Taylor: The Origins of the Second World War (by Russel Tarr)

I just completed reading the book referred to in this video two weeks ago. I am by no means an expert on the Second World War. But a lot of Taylor's analyses completely caught me by surprise. Highly recommended, especially if you enjoy contradicting views.

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Gastrell was already in the town's bad books after chopping down a mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare in the garden. Then, in an extraordinary fit of spite, he demolished the whole house in 1759. It was never rebuilt and only the foundations remain.

BBC News - The man who demolished Shakespeare's house

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Nine things that would make Apple's smart watch really smart. According to me.

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I louwe things that can be made in a microwave.

Mirowave milk pedas. Mmm.

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When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela’s did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter – and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore. It suddenly looks like a threat to the corporate capitalism, especially when said country has valuable oil resources that global powerhouses like the United States rely on.

Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle - Salon.com

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One fine morning in early 1965, Singh agreed to meet Megh Singh who had come up with an idea to augment operations in the Western Theatre through commando forces.

PC Katoch and Saikat Datta’s India’s Special Forces - History and Future of Indian Special Forces releases in May 2013.

Sample chapter and more details here.