First look inside YFZ Ranch
Quiet is unnerving as FLDS members seek answersYFZ RANCH, Texas - The children's shoes still sit neatly, side by side where they last left them. Child-sized shovels and miniature wheelbarrows sit on the porch of their three-story, log cabin-like home ( Read more... )

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69 ( Read more... )

Narwhals smell and taste with their 'horn.' What a fantastic adaptation. And the whole toothy-sensuality/sex thing is...weird...fascinating...kinda makes sense.

I think this video of a girl's choir singing about peace is just awesome. It's a re-write of John Lennon's "So This is Christmas", a tune I've always loved. And I like the sentiment that Bush and his dynasty can be over if enough people will it to be ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. In case you haven't heard, The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, died. Stingray barb to the heart on a reef in Australia. My first coherent thought when I got the news: "Good for him! It would suck to live a life like that, then retire and die in obscurity in a nursing home somewhere." Of course, I am sad for all that ( Read more... )

Copied from darkmane I've been saying this from day one, as I'm sure have others on my friends list. It's not new thought, just stupidly rare thought ( Read more... )

I've watched four or five of the World Cup matches, in bits and pieces. Soccer is one of the few team sports I like to watch, (I thoroughly enjoy things like skiing, diving, ice skating, and hula championships.)

ocicat, evil temptor that he is, coaxed me into watching the final match with him this afternoon, when I was suposed to be getting some work ( Read more... )

Russ found an article on the differences in speech patterns between "mainstream" populations and sci-fi con-goers. Some interesting observations by a trained speech pathologist, some of which I knew about, others which startle me a bit. Text here. The article is by a friend of the speaker who attended a talk by the researcher. As far as I know ( Read more... )

I had a brain flash while reading a friend's post about finding ways to help down South. Does anyone know, or feel like tracking down, a person over there who owns a float-helicopter? What they need right now are ways to get to places where help is needed. So many of the small towns are completely incommunicado. Rescue workers can't get there, ( Read more... )

James Doohan, we salute you.

"James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday. He was 85 ( Read more... )