Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

Have you built a time machine?

Have you been sitting putting off using it, for fear of the grandfather paradox?

Fear no more! Grandfather paradox-free time travel is now available!

(Math from Tenso Graphics.)

There are plenty of people in the world who cannot read Chinese (or Japanese). Yet a significant portion of these people insist on getting tattooed with Chinese (or Japanese) characters. Here are their stories.

London is amazingly unfriendly to the disabled. It has many old buildings which are (unsurprisingly) inaccessible. Most of the tube stations require that patrons traverse stairs, nevermind the conundrum of minding the gap while in a wheelchair. Apparently the brains behind the 2012 Olympics are extending this inaccessibility to the internet, as well.

Do you want to have sex in space? Too bad — the International Space Station is a sex-free zone. Perhaps they are trying to join Texas.

(Found at FFFFound. Photographer unknown.)

Awkward Family Photos normally features family portraits that have gone awry. Occasionally they deviate from the theme and feature stories about cakes to celebrate a child’s first period. Note to self: do not do this to your own child.

It turns out that Archimedes might not have set invading Roman ships on fire with a giant mirror, but instead he might have used a steam-based cannon. I am not sure if this makes the story better or worse. I think better. Now I find myself imagining Archimedes as a goggle-and-toga wearing Greek steampunk mad scientist/genius.