Front towards enemy

Creating a Claymore mine out of office materials. Nifty.

Flutie folds

Doug Flutie retired from pro football Monday, ending a 21-year career in which the Heisman Trophy winner puzzled both opposing defenses and his own coaches with his unconventional style at quarterback.

The decision by the 43-year-old Flutie was announced by the New England Patriots, for whom he played five games last season.

Flutie has agreed to work as a college football analyst for ABC and ESPN.

All hail Doug Flutie. Five-foot-ten, 43 years old, and yet still a gridiron giant.

Events occur in real time, but not real typography

Someone's putting entirely too much thought into the digital clock from 24.

And that's how I stumbled onto this weird pattern: The clock never shows a 0 turning into a 1, and it never shows a 1 turning into a 2. (There are some very rare exceptions, which I explain below.) Check it out the next time you watch the show, if you watch it. The clock will display a sequence like "04:42:24, 04:42:25, 04:42:26, 04:42:27, 04:42:28," then stop, or "04:21:16, 04:21:17, 04:21:18, 04:21:19," then stop. I've only been watching for this pattern for six or eight episodes, so I don't know if it's been like this since the first episode of the first season—but I'm betting that's the case. The onscreen time sequences are dictated partly by the typographic limitations of the clock font.

I'd noticed the serifs on the 1 before, but then I moved on.