Foursquare meets Risk on the London Underground?

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9463441.stm

Hee, I love the Washington Post's Peep diorama contest. This year includes Peep Muppets and  Hieronymus Bosch style Peep Hell.

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/peeps-show-v/2011/04/11/AF3NYHSD_gallery.html

I didn't know how tenderly I felt towards this piece of electronics until I had to part from it.

My laptop -- Magri's it's name -- caught a bad virus on Monday night. It started shooting up pop-ups screaming at me that it was full of viruses and needed me to download a fix. I've gotten wacky pop-ups similar before, and shutting them down and running ( Read more... )

Wanted to share this site -- contains over six thousand images of old maps from around the world, from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Maybe useful for writing or historical research.

http://botany.si.edu/references/mapscatalog/

A statement by the Smithsonian's Secretary on the controversy surrounding the Hide/Seek exhibit.

I've been talking about this controversy with many people over the past several weeks, and still I can't seem to get very worked up about it on a personal level. While I don't agree that the video should have been pulled, I also don't blame Clough for ( Read more... )

One of my coworkers is proofreading lists of scientific names of insects, and came across a publication a genus called Gelae, with this etymology explanation: “This genus is named Gelae (gender neutral), a shortened version of the Latin word gelatus, meaning “congealed” or “jellied” (and pronounced like the English word “jelly”) in reference to the ( Read more... )

Bold whichever books you have finished reading, and Italicize those that you've read at least a portion of. Then tag your friends.

- A number of these I read thanks to Peace Corps - the good book exchange the volunteers had going, my closest fellow volunteers’ voracious reading habits, and the fun of escaping into the books. One or two I was ( Read more... )

I know I've got at least two Slayers fans in my friendslist, possibly three or four.

This is the most frightening drawing of Xellos I have ever seen. It didn't hit me at first, but when I went to bed a few minutes later, I found myself telling myself, "Don't think about Xellos' eye, don't think about Xellos' eye..."
Here is one by the same artist ( Read more... )

How 250,000 US embassy cables were leakedLike this ( Read more... )

Aaaand something to cleanse the mind after that last post.
Neil Patrick Harris as a magical singing fairy… with Muppets.
This one is BEST seen late at night.