Flares into Darkness

A short educational film that shows how to effectively gesture while speechifying.     

But, but, but... aren't we all supposed to be  peace loving vegans? Caption by me, cartoon by Mike Armstrong This morning Instapundi...

Monday morning, start of the work week blues by Johnny Shines, Honeyboy Edwards and Walter Horton .

Travel - Edna St. Vincent Millay The railroad track is miles away, And the day is loud with voices speaking, Yet there isn't a tra...

Click any image to enlarge  Man's Life was an old pulp adventure magazine that featured all manner of lurid covers and ridiculous art...

From FiveThirtyEight click to enlarge From the things you never knew, or at least the things I never knew, department -- when Texas was ...

Mongolian throat singer Bukhchuluun Ganburged performs Waltzing Matilda.  

Scott Stewart has a long piece at Stratfor analyzing the rise of the militant group Boka Haram in Nigeria. Demographically Nigeria is split ...

On this Veterans Day get ready for the weekend with an acoustic Alice in Chains.  

Click any image to enlarge  The Spanish artist Max de Esteban has created a series of photographs called Proposition One . At first appea...

  The details of design, when looked at closely, are often fascinating. Things that are taken for granted, but which have had a lot of thou...

As we know Chinese farmer Shu Mansheng is trying to create the first craft that will allow octocopter-assisted human flight . As the above...

Above is a video of two young ladies who while canoeing in Ireland encounter a huge flock, called a murmuration, of thousands of starlings...

The European Union was an attempt to subsume European nationalism under its banner and bureaucracy. The intent was to forestall the wars tha...

Glassblower Michal Zahradník built a working, blown glass model of George Stephenson's steam engine. I don't know anything about g...

Above is Dark Helmet taunting Lone Star when they finally meet, below is Andrew Klavan, although admittedly he's buttering the bread k...

Monday morning, start of the work week blues by R.L.Burnside & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.  

In the old-timey days Hollywood used to use western actors to portray orientals. Chinese films of the same era used Asian actors in makeup ...

The comment attached to the video said it was the 4th race at Del Mar on 9/1/10 and the jockey was Joel Rosario. I was surprised by how qu...

  Nick Cannon, in his post Insane Money Origami , has a number of origami creations from folded bills. Some of them are so elaborate it is ...