Flares into Darkness

The latest Miss Venezuela, the lovely Reina Bella Guerrero, is a Barbie doll. The contest was held in Caracas in early December, and the ab...

When Ambi Jr. was but a young sprout he used to love claw crane games. Those are the machines where you maneuver a little crane to grab a to...

Continuing my new found sleazy tactic of coupling Strafor articles with hot babe pictures -- I probably should be ashamed of myself for it ...

Crank the volume and shed a tear. Captain Beefheart has passed away at the age of 69.

Above is a rather odd song about the Black Death. I'll warn you, the "fleas on rats" chorus is liable to get stuck in your h...

There was to be no press coverage allowed of Obama's meeting with Clinton. No photos, no questions, not even a written statement about ...

Hah, I never figured one of these Stratfor articles would give me an excuse to post an Angelina Jolie picture.  It has occurred to me that...

No, the above picture doesn't show that pandas have turned to a life of crime and taken up kidnapping, or cubnapping, or whatever you wo...

Yes, it’s a steam powered record player. Playing a punk LP. The Sex Pistols – God save the Queen (Victoria obviously). You can’t really ...

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...