Flares into Darkness

Have a good Thanksgiving

From Bore Patch

A lot of the posting about the CRU document hack revolves around how it will play in the press. There is a certain amount of cynicism that, ...

As you may have heard, a hacker has released data implicating CRU as less than straightforward about AGW. Our own Charlie Martin has a piec...

On May 8th, 1781, a shell penetrated the magazine in the Queen’s Redoubt. The explosion of the magazine killed nearly 100 English defenders ...

Yoani Sánchez, runs the blog Generation Y which is on our blog roll. If you haven't followed our link to her site and read her you shou...

"Some wind in the morning, then nice sunny weather. Ground has dried up somewhat. In the evening violent wind & a few drops of rain...

The guitarist Peter Bocking has passed away. I wasn't familiar with his musical work. In the blogosphere he was known as PeterUK. The l...

Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima play a duet using one guitar. Via neatorama

A friend of mine has a Granddaughter named Piper. She has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes mucous to build up in her body, par...

Oh man, my childhood microscope, chemistry set, plastic Babbage's machine, short wave radio, all of it -- even my brother's toy ste...

A creative re-engineering of paper flip animation, although the laugh track is irritating. Be warned -- parts of it are rather crude and it ...

In 2007 Peter Silverman bought a portrait titled Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress for $19,000 . Christie's had previously sold...

Narcissism, that is. This from Algore : "Never before in human history has a single generation been asked to make such difficult and ...

He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where h...

Nadine Jarvis is selling a rather unique product . She makes pencils from the carbon of human cremations. She says about 240 pencils can be ...

HT: Holger Awakens

Oh-oh. Have the Japanese beaten the Australians to the capture of a Mongolian Death Worm ? Fear not, as we've seen before, the ...

Our Gadsden flag predates the Tea Parties. It was chosen as a symbol of the Yargbee's support of Western Values in the fight against I...