Fake terracotta warrior invades tomb …And more or less gets away with it

Fawlty Towers reopens …But John Cleese sits out the opening ceremony

Will New York ban transfats? …Should be interesting to see how this plays out…

But not ever going to be forgotten around here. Old friend, houseguest, fellow writer: we genuinely will not see his like again. Mike had the unique gift of making the…

(sigh) I was going to be up bright and early this morning to watch the golfing proceedings start…but in the wild post-hurricane weather of last night, power lines went down…

I’ve been thinking about the redesign of EuropeanCuisines.com for a while now: while there’s a lot of data there, the site’s started to seem very static in terms of what…

Duane “Dog” Chapman of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” fame has just been released on bail after an arrest on foot of an extradition request from Mexico. They want him on…

Wow, more than a thousand fifteen hundred of you have been in since Glenn put up that posting. Welcome! For those of you curious about what’s going on around here…

From an article about the deploying of the International Space Station’s new solar panels: one astronaut is mentioned… …Christopher J. Ferguson, another Navy captain, who is on his first shuttle…

Or the second planette. (Or dwarf planet, or planetoid, or whatever-the-F we’re calling the Small Guys Out Past Neptune this week.) Anyway: the planet formerly known as Xena is now…

Or so they say. [tags]transformers, transformers movie, transformers film[/tags]

A word of explanation before we go on. This is not an apple pie as such (the techniques are a lot different though the flavorings are similar). This is a…

It’s about to start happening — that most gloriously seasonal of desserts. The tree in the paddock is so loaded down with Bramleys, the branches are bending halfway to the…

I lived there for a total of seven years or so, and miss the place often. Just don’t ask me to be rational about the reasons. Here’s one: Palm Springs Police…

I’m going to be posting this over at MetaFilter as well, but I thought I’d put this up here first. The hat in this picture is an oddity. It belongs…

Our major satellite TV provider, Sky, will shortly be showing all six Star Wars films at once on Sky Movies. As part of the promotional campaign for this, they’ve constructed…

Yes, it’s almost that time of year again, and even the Powers that Be are getting out the pasta drainers for the yearly celebration of Their valued colleague’s contributions to…

(chuckle) Trekking well beyond the Dark Side of the Moon, a Calgary indie rock band has forged a musical force-field in defence of embattled Pluto. In a five-man band mission,…

hanukit01 Originally uploaded by designsponge. …Though I imagine you’d have to say the blessing real fast on the eighth night… [tags]minimalism, minimalist, Hanukkah, Chanukah[/tags]

(Greetings to all our visitors from BoingBoing, StumbleUpon and Digg!) You may have seen the cool posting in BoingBoing some weeks ago about the hummingbird hawkmoth. If you did, this…

I am a big fan of Benvenuto Cellini’s. Okay, maybe it sounds a little strange to say that, at this end of time: but the man’s personality is an endless…

So CopperCon was a blast (as was the heat in Tempe: like a blast furnace…). Met many cool people, and had a super time. Had time to touch base with…

A present to him from Gracie Allen… [tags]George Burns, Gracie Allen, eBay, Hermes[/tags]

Okay, now I’m rolling my eyes really hard. Not yet completely freaked…until this happens twice. Via the excellent kerithwyn: Unfortunately, I need to report an “oops” regarding the lulu.com printing…