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Boing-Boing.

Washing our windows Saturday afternoon, the day before the big show.

Seen on gawker.com.

We just had a pretty strong earthquake (at 1:51 PM). Lasted about 30 seconds. The interior walls appeared to be shaking back and forth about...

Hilarious bunch of fans, fanatics and lookalikes.

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...that the U.S. went off the gold standard. And things have just been so utterly peachy-keen ever since. Forbes via Yahoo.

I read the first three chapters here. It's pretty good. h/t boing-boing.

h/t Snowflakes In Hell. I think I may have seen one of these in the parking lot at the Dayton Hamvention, but it might just have been a humo...

Fascinating account of the raid on Abbottabad, in, of all places, The New Yorker. The helicopters traversed Mohmand, one of Pakistan’s seven...

"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice" from "Fast Times." "Vote McFly" from "Back To The Future" Via Neatoram...

Article about after-hours chatter among telegraph operators...the first "texting". From Sunday Magazine. Via Neatorama.

1) Standard & Poor's has already told the Treasury that even if the debt ceiling is raised , odds are 50-50 that they will reduce ...

I went on a 25-mile bike ride today in the middle of this scorcher. It was 90 degrees at 11 AM when I started, 95 at noon and the high was 9...

Today the planet Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since it was first observed on September 23-24, 1846. Voyager 2 photograph...

For several months, the only FFL in the District of Columbia, a man named Charles Sykes, has been without a business location, having lost h...

In Ezell vs Chicago, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and instructed the lower court to issue an i...

A collection of beautiful and unusual pictures of the Space Shuttle, in The Atlantic.

I watched "A Hard Day's Night" on Netflix today. It's still fresh! Pattie Boyd (yes, that Pattie Boyd ) had an uncredite...