Remaindered

Latest linkdump:

• Here's a link to a video of a Honda Civic with a Corvette engine [streetfire.net] dropped into it. It looks like it would be incredible to drive, albeit really scary. And at the same time, I can't help but think how much work that would that have been, for something so pointless...


• PostSecret [blogspot.com] has a bunch of postcards on display from people who have sent in their Mother's Day secrets. After reading them all, it is clear that there are a lot of disfunctional family relationships out there, some of which are caused by issues that seem so simple to solve. It is yet another reminder of how easy it is to take loved ones for granted.


• On kottke.org [kottke.org], I saw a link to an interesting article about Niagara Falls [newsweek.com]. Did you know that they adjust the flow of water over the falls to make them more dramatic during the tourist season? Here's a quote:

  "...of all the world's natural wonders, Niagara Falls may be the most artificial. Upriver, technicians turn up the falls for the tourist season, by diverting less water for hydropower. From April through mid-September, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., they let 100,000 cubic feet per second go over the falls—double the usual 50,000, but still only half the natural volume. Starting as early as the 1830s, the topography has been tweaked, even rebuilt... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has blasted and excavated, filled and graded; it has added eight acres to Goat Island, between the Bridal Veil and Horseshoe Falls, implanted sensors to detect rocks coming loose and reshaped the Horseshoe's American edge; the Canadian falls is now 400 feet narrower than it used to be.