Flares into Darkness

"Our original plan called for skirting the north edge of the Allegheny Mountains, where the peaks are lower and there would be less tur...

Gah! It has been a lot longer than I thought since I've last posted. In the past I have posted pictures of people blending themselve...

Whoops, I forgot Draw Mohamed Day. I never drew a picture of Mohammed which naturally makes posting one a bit of a problem.  Facing that q...

Well, ok... actually I'm not. In fact, I don't even know if she's Moslem. I'll admit, since I've goofed off for a coup...

If you're a monster, you know you've hit the big time when the SyFy Channel makes a movie about you.

  The above video is of the first 30 seconds, from the ignition of the engines to the rocket clearing the tower, of the launch of Apollo 1...

As soon as I read the title of the article, The World's Ugliest Statues , I knew it was coming. Sure enough, weighing in at Number III ...

Once again Obama bows. "So it is you!" said Xi-feng with a chilling smile. "I suppose you thought that because you have a s...

A real Turing machine . All by themselves, words can cause pain . iPad lockin . Chinese quality strikes again . The newest Gulf war...

At first I thought that was a can of beer bundled with the two packs of cigarettes, but it turns out to be a can of coffee. Regardless, for...

In the 1980s the appearance of VCRs lead to the growth of Mobile Cinemas. These were small operations which would travel from one small vil...

67 million years ago a snake coiled in a nest of dinosaur eggs and ate the babies as they hatched. A landslide buried the scene and time and...

Why we dream . The joy of mephedrone . Vix doesn't seem to be worth much . Electromagnetic armor. Where's the missing oil ...

Bad stuff coming out of China. Google's delusional arrogance . Chinese jets for Chavez . Travel like a human . Grant redux . ...

Described as a "huge success" folks sat in coffee shops to talk politics. Turnout was higher than expected with an overwhelming 60...

Atrazine emasculates frogs . It's raining men fish . How to solve health care . All your news are belong to us. Grandma in Hu...

This morning, while driving to work, some blather coming out of the radio clued me in to the fact that the Oscar awards happened last night....

Why the recession is lasting so long . Communicating through touch . Revolution in China? Fairness is hard-wired into the brain. ...

Real lives in North Korea . Quark soup at 4 trillion degrees Celsius. Japan's Mengele experiments . The mathematical formula for ...

Retort Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art, To be led a...