Museums; Toilets; Drunks; Skylab

Chase Studio
You ever wonder who makes all those models and dioramas you see in museums? Chase Studio might have made a few of them. Well-illustrated site with lots of explanations.

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Toilets of the World
One man's gallery of toilets he's seen from all over. Fortunately, he refuses to show us the worst of the worst:

Toilets I WON'T Show...
the flat-out scariest toilet I've ever seen, a vision of Hell to give Dante the heebie-jeebies, was an underground public toilet in a park near Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. The "toilets" were knee-high stubs of culvert drainage pipes. The floor was covered in about an inch of liquified filth continuously replenished by a couple of "toilets" in reverse ooze mode. The atmosphere had an ammonia content about equal to that of Venus.

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Off the Cuff and Under the Table
Glossary and etymology of terms for drunkeness. Lots of them I already knew, but a some of them ("to be plastered", "to be tight", or "three sheets to the wind") had interesting origins. (Thanks, Kirby!)

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Figure 28. Astronaut activities during a typical 24-hour period.

SKYLAB: A Guidebook
All-inclusive guidebook on Skylab's design, operation, and research programs.


Skylab, first operational in 1973 (that's 32 years ago).

(via Skylab Program Overview.)