A description of the Joplin tornado by an ER doctor who was on duty at St. John's Hospital when it was hit. more inside

I'm calling out homunculus . With 580 links, and being the most regular (and creative) poster we've been lately fortunate to have, I think we need to give our homunculus three monkey cheers. I, for one, welcome our appreciate the effort Our Guy puts forth! Pop Tarts! Pop Tarts! Yeah!

The story behind the world's oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago.

24 hours of minutes The Los Angeles County Museum is showing a 24-hour film in which the minutes tick by in real time, while the audience sees clocks or watches from movies and television. It starts Monday at 11 AM and ends Tuesday at AM. LACMA is keeping the café open all night to serve the moviegoers. more inside

In Today's Society, Are You Master of Your Own Skin? Having found a publisher's proof copy of The Yankee Way to Simplify Your Life, which principles I'm trying to apply to my own life (up to a point), there is a reference to spanking children with books bound by the flayed flesh of criminals. Not popular today. But looking into it, I was led to the Boston Athenium for the story of the referenced highwayman who claimed to be "master of his own skin," thence on his way to become the book binding on his confession... But it turns out that not only criminals observed the practice. The Athenium link also notes that a famous beautiful lady had her skin put up on a treatise of astronomy. More on such practices here.

Vegan FAIL

Moire weird stuff from Japan Wearable brain-wave controlled cosplay cat ears. Meow!

I do NOT SEE anything to worry about!

But it need not be taken seriously any longer, its deputies merely providing the House with amusement when they indulge in their fantastic outbursts.

Portal Tetris proves that sometimes putting two cool things together is not the best idea.