Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Around 85 million people speak Cantonese globally. Cantonese is part of the Yue branch of Sinitic languages in the Sino Tibetan family. Even though written characters in traditional Hanzi are the same, spoken Cantonese and Mandarin are generally not mutually intelligible. Cantonese is known for its complex tonal system, commonly said to have six to…
Things I Like: Maxi (Soul Calibur II)
Maxi is a pretty decent character in Soul Calibur II, along with the rest of the Soul Calibur series. In a weapon-based fighting game, even though some weapons make very little sense compared to swords and spears, you still need to have a nunchaku-wielding warrior in the cast. I had assumed he was Japanese, but…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Rocks
A rock is defined by geologists as a natural solid substance composed of one or more minerals fused together. Rocks are not the same as minerals. Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic crystalline solids with a fixed chemical composition, while rocks are aggregates of minerals or sometimes mineraloids. There are 3 main types of rocks: igneous,…
Things (My Son) Likes: Hot Wheels Let’s Race (TV Series)
Hot Wheels Let’s Race became one of my son Alexander’s newest obsessions. I did not know the show was on Netflix until Alex pointed it out and asked to watch it. He maintained a strong fascination with the show for about a month. Obviously, it is based on the Hot Wheels toy line, which does…
7 Random Fun Facts and Trivia For December 2025
The most common French name for lovebirds (as in the literal birds) is les inséparables. Charles Foussard, a French Australian man, spent most of his life confined in the J Ward mental asylum in Ararat, Victoria, after murdering an elderly man and stealing his boots. At his death in 1974, he had spent over 71…
