“Why did the two cyanide groups go to see a psychiatrist? Because they were both ‘in dinile’…” Oww! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! …The site linked to above is probably…
Live from the Black Forest…getcha wild boar streaming video here.
Some of you aren’t sure what this creature is. The scientific name is Gallinago gallinago, as far as I can tell: whether this taxonomy is Linnaean, your guess would be…
Busy busy busy, and not much time to blog. I liked this interview, though: Gothamist interviews Clay Shirky …Otherwise this past week has been spent (a) writing or (b) trying…
While wandering through I Want One Of Those.com, I ran across this. It’s the “Buy A Piece of Real Estate Not On Earth” thing again, this time on the Moon.…
In this morning’s Globe and Mail: “A paper published today in the journal Science records the discovery of a cat that may have been a pet, buried 9,500 years ago…
From Variety this morning: (Subscription link, sorry: alternately, see this link at Superherohype.com…) “Robert Rodriguez’s resignation from the DGA has jeopardized Paramount’s development of its tentpole pic ‘A Princess of…
This is a lot of fun. Wishful thinking of the best kind…
It’s going to be fascinating to watch the figures and see if anything like this starts happening here: “Every year Helena, Montana, counts how many people suffer heart attacks. Every…
“In 1977 the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement in honor of the tenth anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting…
I’ve had Mars on the brain for some weeks now, due to events shaping up for the “Young Wizards” book which will follow Wizards at War. But mostly I’d been…
For those of you who might want to look in and see what’s going on, feel free to stop by: from now until 8 PM today (US Eastern time), you…
More or less. “A new guide to ‘the land untouched by modern dentistry,’ published in Britain on Thursday, lists some of Molvania’s highlights, including its nuclear reactor with genuine 1950s-era…
Winners of M-Law’s seventh annual Wacky Warning Labels contest are here. Among past years’ winners, this one has a certain Zen quality: “A warning on a pair of shin guards…
“All right,” said the weary adult voice from downstairs. “Let’s try it again. How many is that for breakfast now?” “Three humans,” came the reply, also from downstairs but a…
“…U.S. officials told NBC News that the full record of Clarke’s testimony two years ago would not be declassified. They said that at the request of the White House, however,…
“Although the interrogation transcripts are prefaced with the warning that ‘the detainee has been known to withhold information or deliberately mislead’, it is clear that he is talking — and…
So Ireland has survived its first night of The Ban. Some news stories about it: “‘It’s the most stupid law I ever heard of,’ he complained. ‘Telling people how to…
“Ireland has become the first country in the world to outlaw cigarettes in all its restaurants and pubs, to the delight of non-smokers but the dismay of some publicans worried…
This sounds familiar somehow…
A revolutionary jet engine flew faster than seven times the speed of sound in a high altitude test over the Pacific on Saturday, marking what NASA scientists hailed as a…
“In a time when a clearcutting proposal is named the “Healthy Forests Initiative” and the “Clean Air Act” allows for more rather than less air pollution, ‘Constitution Restoration Act’ is…
I’ve got my fingers crossed… (See also NASA’s press release.)
Robo-rats. Of course, it would be much harder to do this to a human. …Wouldn’t it?