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Flying Saucers Comics

Painted Ships on Painted Oceans: an Accidental Map of the Doldrums - This is very cool.

Thousand-Year-Old Vineyards Found in Spain - Traces of ancient vineyards that date back 1,000 years were discovered in the terraced fields ( Read more... )

Being right or being happy: pilot study - Which kind of reminds me of my “justice versus peace” parable I sometimes tell. (Via David Goldman.)

Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls? - A new discovery by literary scholars highlights an unexpected inspiration. (Thanks to Dad.)

Stunning photography of man's mightiest shame ( Read more... )

Desolation again strikes Tolkien-themed street signs - Ah, Portland. (Via Dad.)

Alfred Shaheen: Pioneer of the Hawaiian Shirt - Oooh! (Via ( Read more... )

NSA forces novelist to scrap book - Hah. Charlie Stross from the other end of the telescope. (Via Dad.)

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Evidence of Water Vapor Venting Off Jupiter Moon - (Via Bruce Taylor.)

What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into An Ant Hill - Wow…

Strange gelatinous creature gives hints of the first animals on Earth - The ( Read more... )

Elevenses And Then Some: How To Prepare A Feast Fit For A Hobbit - Now that’s a lot of food… (Via Lisa Costello.)

Benedict Cumberbatch sees Smaug as sexy

Misheard for the holidays: When good song lyrics go bad - (Thanks to Dad.)

The Best of the Worst Logo Designs - Oh geeze. (I think I got this from Steve Buchheit, but I have lost the source.

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Dementia: Terry Pratchett 'angry' with government

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters - From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Calvin and Hobbes on ebooks - Hahahah.

Twitter’s World - Languages and Twitter.

Prosthetic Arm Found in Second-Hand Shop - Ah, headlines.

Irrefutable Proof that ( Read more... )

The most beautiful death - Aldous Huxley's "most beautiful death" was described by his wife in a moving letter.

The “Copenhagen left” - A bicycle maneuver I have used without ever knowing it had a name. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Heyday app is the anti-Facebook for the iPhone

Mercier 1937 Moto Chenille 350cc 1 cyl ohv - Wow is that weird. ( ( Read more... )

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Becoming attractions: A brief history of film trailers - (Via ( Read more... )

Novelist Error Messages - Hahahah. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)

Where writers get their ideas - Hahah.

6 Modern Playgrounds to Make Your Inner Child Lose Its Mind - Some weird stuff. Hah. (Via ( Read more... )