A gentleman with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford has created a street-legal Beetle with a jet engine stuffed in the back. Best line from his erudite and fascinating…

Don’t know if I’d call them that, but unquestionably the find is important. Fragments of an ancient manuscript, possibly more than 1,000 years old, have been uncovered in a bog.…

I love these.  

Peter sent me this link to a very charming animation: Cake Dance (Sorry, it’s Flash again.) [tags]anime, animation, humor, sweet[/tags]

Over at Kittenbreak.com, things are looking cute… But some things are rather broken. May a kindly Providence guard us from the day when we need an adoption lawyer to take…

The International Eating Etiquette Test. “Don’t Gross Out the World”

The question comes up once again, as the one-cent piece now costs more to produce than it’s worth. …The U.S. Mint could lose a mint, or $43.5 million, producing the…

I thought this had been removed from YouTube. So happy to be wrong. 🙂 Monty Python’s “Camelot” on the Starship Enterprise

for an Evil Overlord: 34. I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.  

He spent all yesterday writing an entry about the hunting wasps who’ve been setting up housekeeping in our upstairs bathroom.  He thinks he’s going to post this on my weblog.…

It’s not that I haven’t been annoyed enough by events in the Middle East these past couple weeks. But now it turns out that, as if it all wasn’t bad…

A proud title, and one I don’t much like to see in the obits column…especially in this case. Mickey Spillane has died at the age of 88. Spillane had no…

No sooner do I find out that they did a fifth season of the animated Teen Titans — which our SkyPlus box seems to hate, as it keeps dropping scheduled…

Or it’s corny this year, anyway. From Reuters: A British fan of the cult TV show “Star Trek” has boldly gone where no man has gone before and created a…

(Other than in the usual context of the epic battle of good against evil, etc etc.) Flash required…. Icon’s Story Now playing: Bill Whelan – Andalucia

Some nice stuff here: Cosmotions: timelapse photo animations of the real cosmos Now playing: Leech – Studer- Van Dam. Dir: Plasson – “Ainsi que la brise légère”

Won’t need sugar in the tea this morning… Bengal Cats of Adventure Beach (Hmm… I wonder if anyone in Ireland is breeding these guys…) Now playing: Kenneth Gilbert – Air…

And what either Nietzsche or George Bernard Shaw would have made of this, I have no idea. The chart above represents development of power levels of both God and Superman…

On summer evenings, when the little ultrasonic things that keep bugs and mice out of the house are turned on, if the windows are going to be open, turn the…

…whose stuff I’ve always loved, especially the line about the new definition of “apostrophe”: “Look out, an S is coming!”. But these is so much good sense here that I’ve…

I love it when things like this happen. Once again neuroscience gets stood on its ear… Terry Wallis awoke from a coma-like state 19 years after tumbling over a guardrail…

Looks like something a little unusual was going on recently up on the slopes of one of Europe’s highest mountains. Last week, like a thunderbolt from Zeus himself, an unexpectedly…

Stephanie Jaworski’s venerable JoyOfCakes.com has been beautifully redesigned. I wandered over there this morning and instantly started drooling. (sigh) Duane’s Twelfth Law: You will always come across a particularly scrumptious-looking…

Lots of people come to our Irish recipe pages at the European Cuisines website in search of “the genuine Irish Coffee” recipe. We’ve had the recipe in text form for…