“Lt. Colonel (United Kingdom) Percival Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 – in or after 1925) was a British artillery officer, archaeologist and South American explorer.
Along with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find "Z" – his name for what he believed to be an ancient lost city in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.”

Dude was a real-life Indiana Jones.

"Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages. [...] Features of Googie include upswept roofs, curvaceous, geometric shapes, and bold use of glass, steel and neon. Googie was also characterized by Space Age designs depicting motion, such as boomerangs, flying saucers, atoms and parabolas, and free-form designs such as "soft" parallelograms and an artist's palette motif."

It's that Jetsons-American-Graffiti-Jack-Rabbit-Slim's look.

"There is a popular belief in Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型?) is predictive of his or her personality, temperament, and compatibility with others,[1] similar to how astrological signs are used, though blood type plays a much more prominent role in Japanese society than astrology does in the West."

"The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess."

Over time, Theseus replaces parts of his ship. Eventually, he has replaced all of the parts. Is it still Thesus's ship?

In addition, what if you gathered the discarded parts from Theseus's ship and eventually used them to build a second ship? Would _that_ be Theseus's ship?

"Examples of qualia are the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the redness of an evening sky."

"George Lucas has acknowledged the key influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. This influence remains particularly evident in the technique of telling the story from the points of view of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2. Kurosawa's use of frame wipes (sometimes cleverly hidden by motion within the frame) as a transition device also influenced Star Wars."

"A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original."

Indirectly via Gruber (http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/push_pop_press):

"I think Apple went with the wrong type of show-offy-ness with iBooks. Apple went in the direction of skeuomorphically aping the paper book — a spine, the outline of paper pages rendered on screen, animation that mimics paper page turning."

"Embrace, extend and extinguish," also known as "Embrace, extend and exterminate," is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors.

The Menger sponge is a fractal that "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."

The Ouroboros (or Uroborus) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.

E-Prime (short for English-Prime, sometimes spelled E′) is a form of the English language in which the verb to be does not appear in any of its forms.

The just-world phenomenon refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is just so strongly that when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it.

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence with correct grammar (logical form) but semantics that are nonsensical. The sentence therefore has no understandable meaning.

The paradox of the heap is an example of this paradox which arises when one considers a heap of sand, from which grains are individually removed. Is it still a heap when only one grain remains? If not, when did it change from a heap to a non-heap?

"Initially a weak copy protection system in 1980s Apple Macintosh Operating System, the term 'flipping the bozo bit' was later reused to describe a decision to ignore a person's input."

"Poe's Law points out that it is hard to tell parodies of fundamentalism (or, more generally, any crackpot theory) from the real thing, since they both seem equally insane."

"This is not a pipe."

"Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing."

"It is p, but I don't believe it is p."

Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols -- dummy text, "lorem ipsum," etc.

The fictional currency in Cory Doctorow's novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom." The idea is that there is no scarcity to the whuffie. It's analogous to 'stars', 'hearts', 'faves', 'likes', etc on the Internet.

A mulligan, in a game, happens when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action. The practice is also sometimes referred to as a "do over."

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

An apparently scientific argument is said to be not even wrong if it is based on assumptions that are known to be incorrect, or alternatively, theories which cannot possibly be falsified or used to predict anything.