time-travel 3

250 BC is when I’d pick to time-travel to. Ashoka was turning into one of the most famous emperors of India and Archimedes was growing into one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Parallel Lives is a beautiful visualization by Jan Willem Tulp that shows who lived when, showing overlaps, and sized by their prevalence on Wikipedia. I’m a history fan and have spent several hours scrolling through the site: ...

Yahoo on a time traveler busted for insider trading. Unfortunately, the urban legends site denounces it. via Sid

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site. But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?