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Now that we’re up to Hurricane Epsilon in the 2005 season (which ended officially on November 30th), here are the previously retired hurricane names and future tropical cyclone names of the North Atlantic and elsewhere. Interestingly, the naming convention systems and types of names vary by region of of the world. It’s a safe bet that Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita will have their names retired. Now if only Hurricane Naveen or Hurricane Nacho were on the list (there has never been a hurricane named with the letter ‘n’ retired since the North Atlantic naming convention started in 1954). Too bad they don’t give Mexico naming rights.

Probably offensive to most: oh yeah, the nazi forest. WARNING: has sound and is an annoying YTMND thingy. Other good YTMND thingies include the picard song and nigga stole my bike. It’s one of my favorite websites, but you need to be a little ingrained in internet culture and geekery to enjoy it. It’s based on a famous line from Sean Connery’s Finding Forrester

I came across this article on the most underrated inventions in history. It was kind of interesting to see how concrete changed the world. But the authors sometimes extrapolated a little too much. Horse collars allowed a farmer surplus which allowed an Adam Smith’s type professional stratification which destroyed the feudal system and allowed for the industrial age? I’m sure there are a few extra inventions and political events in there that allowed that sequence to progress. It’s still interesting though.

By the way, this is my first aside, a la crazymonk.