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The Big Lebowski 2 with Tara Reid from Tara Reid A trailer for The Big Lebowski 2 with Tara Reid playing all the parts. She incorrectly pre...

It's $820,000. Neatorama.

Currently (9:30 PM EST) you can hear (at 7175 kHz) on SSB the ham radio station OL1911VP in the Czech Republic. It's a special callsign ...

Friday was a beautiful day. Bright overcast, high seventies. No wind to speak of. So I took a long bike ride. Packed a lunch and set off fro...

His obit is in the NYT here. And there's a 2007 article about him in Rolling Stone here. Excerpt: Over the course of the next fourteen ...

Screengrab from the New York Times: Screengrab from Boing-Boing: Notice the very curious misspelling of the word "imminent" in bot...

Story in the WaPo here. Read it and weep. See if you don't agree with me that the Small Business Administration should be closed; shutte...

It was the worst solar storm in history, the Carrington Event in 1859: In addition, the geomagnetic disturbances were strong enough that U.S...

Actually it was something that Uncle said. Thanks for the link, Unc!

Looks like the ATF's public relations arm is now making arrests. Reuters via Yahoo. They'll probably round up every suspect and ther...

I've been working on getting my ham radio station back on the air. The new place is a tiny apartment, so a stealth antenna is called for...

Boing-boing.

Several hundred gallons of ink splattered onto the highway, said Joe Ferson, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental ...

Crazed Gunman Slays Three (In France) Another Crazed Gunman Slays Eight (In France) * How do you say "gun-show loophole" en franca...

Oddee.com (Link fixed)

Boing-boing.

Food as art: They made a Cuban pork sandwich that looks like a Cuban cigar. "We take the spices that go into the pork shoulder and fas...

2010: 47% of Americans Pay No Income Tax (Source: USA Today) 2011: Government Entitlements Make Up One-Third Of U.S. Wages (Source: The Econ...

Full story here. Excerpt: The frustrations of agents began appearing anonymously on Web sites. Anti-ATF bloggers sympathetic to the militia ...