Flares into Darkness

Mighty Optical Illusions is an always interesting site to visit. Some of my favorite illusions at their site are there Lego illusions. They...

First off, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my fellow Yargbees and our readers. Now, on to the mystery... my wife and I gave our son ...

“I started getting on to wine and other stuff for a while, but I became an outcast among my geology friends,” said geologist Laura Webb of t...

  The website Honkiat has a post, Evolution of Horror Movie Poster Designs: 1922 – 2009 , that uses over 50 movie posters to show their ev...

In legislative news today some House subcommittee or another approved a bill that would establish a playoff system for college football. Th...

The Wall Street Journal reports that, as expected, the EPA has just declared C02 to be a pollutant. We have unelected bureaucrats making ...

My earlier post Weird Corner of the Internet featured people holding up album covers so that the pose and the cover art blend into a singl...

Chris Mathews reports from behind enemy lines

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...