Flares into Darkness

Except for the amount it embarrasses his bumbling administration, I can't imagine Obama really being all that upset by the antics of Ju...

While looking for material for a Thanksgiving Day post I got sidetracked when I stumbled upon the Australian Brush Turkey . An interesting...

For those that don't know, Turkmenistan is a county rich in natural gas and lunatic leaders. The combination has led to some strange and...

While my contributions are nearly insignificant I do try to contribute some small amount of money to be used for the benefit of our troops a...

From the EU's Project ASSET (Advanced Safety and Driver Support for Essential Road Transport) web site: The aim of ASSET is to contrib...

I've recently began following a blog called Borderland Beat . It is covering the escalating violence in northern Mexico. It is depress...

I'm in Atlanta this week. To the left is the TV news I can watch here. The local coverage is about Georgia races I know little about. ...

John Kerry, speaking in the Boston Globe (emphasis mine): " We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and ...

I've noticed there has been a huge uptick in articles about biodiversity in the last few weeks. Much of this is driven by that fact that...

The album which morphed into the Buena Vista Social Club was originally intended to be a collaboration between musicians from Cuba ...

Ceth Studio has a post about Kinetic Photography . Above, and after the fold, are some examples of pictures taken using the technique. It i...

It may be my imagination, but the Democrats' national campaign sure appears to have gone off the rails. Colbert's appearance befo...

Below is another article from Stratfor. It concerns the current warning of possible terror operations like those that occurred in Bombay two...

Nokia sells the N8 Smartphone which has a 12 MP camera with Karl Zeis optics. A company called Fletcher has added optics to it and creat...

A Polish man living in Germany went to have a cyst removed from the back of his head. When the doctors did the operation they discovered a b...

We can all sleep a little easier with the news that the UN has appointed Mazlan Othman , a Malaysian astrophysicist, as Earth's offici...

Christine O'Donnell won the Republican primary in Delaware and in the process she created a firestorm of horror in political circles, bo...

Due to the importance of this date, this post needs to be reflective, engaging and thought provoking.  Alas I'm writing it, and me bei...

No comments, just videos by the two great Mali blues musicians, Ali Farka Toure and his son Vieux Farka Toure. 

The picture above was taken by Bill Baggert. Shortly after it was taken the North Tower collapsed. Four days later his body was found in the...