Tip of the hat to reader Simon M.:

Forwarded to me by my lovely bride: Debbie would look just like one of those guys in the background...

The fascinating story of some Chinese farmers who were so fed up with Communism that they risked their lives to enter into a capitalist exp...

Here's a fascinating chart by Horace Dediu , showing sales of various kinds of personal computers.  While looking at this, keep in mind ...

Just in case you're one of the four people who hasn't already seen this:

AKA Tibouchina heteromalla .  From BPotD , of course.  They're on a wildflower roll...

 My mom sent me this clip from “Judge Judy” (apparently some kind of TV show).  I don't know anything about this show, but it certainly ...

Reader Jim M. writes: I am really concerned about North Korea's appointment of the "dear leader", Kim Jung Ill's younge...

Via my mom, this collection of ice sculptures from Fairbanks, Alaska .  Brrr!

Someone in the kitchen has way too much time on their hands!  Via reader Simi L., a whole collection of such things ...

AKA the Piketberg conebush.  Known to me as “beautiful”.  From BPotD, of course...

Selected more or less at random from the new Washingon, D.C. regulations (PDF) covering (amongst other things) rat exterminators: (i) A ...

Also from Simon M., this little story about the evolution of mathematics education: I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The cou...

Reader Simon M. passed this along: TEL AVIV, Israel The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy ...

In 2008, Dr. James Annan (a prominent anthropogenic global warming proponent) made a £100 (about $150) bet with Dr. David Whitehouse (a skep...

Court reporters and close-captioners have been “typing” at the high rates of speech (up to 255 words per minute) for a long time.  They aren...

Check out this awesome crow (and read more about it ):

Via my mom (click to enlarge)...

...and now it's going to come down – but nobody really seems to know where ...

The annual index of programming langauge popularity (measured by lines of code produced) is out.  Java and C both still dominate, but are d...