Flares into Darkness

Reality becomes fantasy How to be a Retronaut, a site I've taken to regularly visiting, has a post called 1950s pin-up girls before ...

Time traveling teen introduces old-timey Chinese girl to sexting "The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. Bu...

In this Strafor article Friedman discusses the rising tension between Hamas and Israel in light of the protests, revolutions, civil wars and...

Whaleboat lost on Bouvet Island Bouvet Island is small, only 5 miles (8km) long by 3 miles (4.8km) wide. It is located deep in the Southe...

Cruising the Vegas strip in 1966 One More Middle Aged Guy has a post Indulging in Nostalgia in which he revisits his youthful fascinatio...

A giant hologram of a cutsie Japanese anime girl, accompanied by a live band, dancing and singing J-Pop while the audience goes wild and ...

click to enlarge I don't know what this style of photographic manipulation is, so I've coined my own term -- Ghostscapes. They...

This Stratfor article discusses Al Qaeda's latest push for Muslims in Western countries to conduct lone wolf style attacks. It points ...

I figure that any day now the tedium will kick in and and some other silly fad will knock him off the Pedestal of Momentary Pop Frenzy, but...

This Strafor article examines the contradiction between wars positioned as humanitarian interventions, which Friedman argues are a new type ...

Man, talk about a plan not surviving contact with the enemy. Well, now that we've seen a couple of weeks of Obama's war leadership ...

As a descendant of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka king who founded the Malian empire, Salif Keita was born into a prestigious family. Howeve...

I don't often buy lottery tickets, but the other day I bought one for some reason. Yea, I know the odds of winning are terrible, but I f...

The always interesting website Information Design Watch has numerous charts and graphs that illustrate this and that. Above is a cropped sc...

This Stratfor article deals with the rather complex situation in Yemen and how al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is navigating that c...

Above is a video clip of Ma-Ro, a Turkmenistani pop star. The song is standard, albeit slightly goofy, generic pop music. It is accompan...

" Members of Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, have begun circulating letters to businesses in southeast Wisconsin, ...

When I first read Obama's Libyan speech I thought it was contradictory and faintly incoherent. However, as I thought about it and then r...

Found Films is a website I visit from time to time. The person who runs it finds old cameras with film still in them, or some times just ro...

Of course I'm joking with the title of this post. Flares doesn't generate a lot of comments -- lately even my beloved Chinese Spambo...