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It is akin to dieting by switching from solid chocolate bars to chocolate bars with nuts.
 
I saw the headline and got real excited. Then I read the article...
 
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Hahahaha statler I just came here right now to post video of what might be the derpiest moment in the history of the NFL, if not of all sports. Your gif is funnier but I'll still share the vid because Cris Collinsworth's reaction is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbuwVWY_JZQ
 
The link at the end doesn't work -- "The server at %3Cobject%20width%3D can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed"
 
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Bagelville in Quincy Market. There's more than 1 error... ;-)
 
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/

THEY CRACKED THIS 250-YEAR-OLD CODE, and found a secret society inside. “For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, one of thousands produced by secret societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak of their power, these clandestine organizations, most notably the Freemasons, had hundreds of thousands of adherents, from colonial New York to imperial St. Petersburg. Dismissed today as fodder for conspiracy theorists and History Channel specials, they once served an important purpose: Their lodges were safe houses where freethinkers could explore everything from the laws of physics to the rights of man to the nature of God, all hidden from the oppressive, authoritarian eyes of church and state. But largely because they were so secretive, little is known about most of these organizations. Membership in all but the biggest died out over a century ago, and many of their encrypted texts have remained uncracked, dismissed by historians as impenetrable novelties.”

If you are a cryptography fan this is worth reading to the end.
 
Would anyone have suggestions on how to find out more about the Boston Pneumatic Transit Company and the pneumatic tube system in use by the postal service in the early 1900's?

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The tubes ran to the post office in Post Office Square. Several of the old office buildings and the department stores downtown had messenger tube systems with a direct connection in the central mail room to the post office.
 
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