(via http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-24/failed-socialist-utopian-dream-helped-dallas-become-major-cityRead more... )

"Children of the Stones [with Gareth Thomas] is the revolutionary 1977 British children's television drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who arrive in the village of Milbury to study the giant Neolithic stones which surround it, and the community which is held in a strange captivity by the psychic forces generated by the stones ( Read more... )

Show me a flooded road, and I can't tell how high the water is because there are no landmarks. Compare flood video to Google Street View, on the other hand...

Compare this video (start at 0:31) to the street view, look at the two businesses, look behind at the house on stilts close to the river, look to the left at the outside staircase next door ( Read more... )

"STARtorialist - Where science meets fashion and scientists get fabulous ( Read more... )

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“Madness is an un-word, dear. It does not exist. There are only varying degrees of sanity. Yours and mine just happen to be more varied than most.”

- Eleanor Bunsall (played by Prunella Scales), “Beyond the Grave,” Midsomer Murders ep 3.4

What's this music? They used it as a bumper on Saturday's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/402029462/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-for-april-25-2015?showDate= ( Read more... )

Cosplay by McCall’s - http://cosplay.mccall.com/Read more... )

Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet Now on Display (AirSpace Blog, National Air and Space Museum)
http://blog.nasm.si.edu/behind-the-scenes/wonder-womans-invisible-jet/

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I've mentioned FriendFeed here a few times, trying to get people to join.

What is FriendFeed? you ask (again). What it is, it's a great place to talk and to meet great people. As I commented elsewhere, "I came for the librarians, I stayed for the FriendFeeders ( Read more... )