Grapes 2.0

Like something out of an unusually febrile Michael Crichton novel, the Storm worm is upon us, quietly infecting our computers and waiting pa...

Suspects Arraigned In Pop Can Smuggling Ring Authorities: Smuggling Rings Defrauded Mich. Bottle Deposit Fund

An Australian quantum computing researcher, whatever that is, has been ripped off by two gorgeous models in a TV advertisement. Here's t...

Last night before going to bed, having spent the evening at quite a dreary party, I was fitzing around on the Intertubewires, and came acros...

Most Americans would fail the citizenship test . And that's from a poll of a Science Blogs readership. Look: Shocking, eh? What a turn-u...

Go and vote in the Bloggers Choice Awards .

If you're at all interested in children's books, here's a monster reading-list , courtesy of the readers of the Freakonomics blo...

Quoting from the TV listings sent out by the BBC: 10:15 Postman Pat (Digital Widescreen) Postman Pat and the Magic Lamp. Children’s ani...

A picture that may well be offensive to some people, showing Nazis at their leisure. To add to the insult, the picture was taken in Auschwit...

Atom Films now allow you to embed full-length flims from their site in your blog. So what do we do to say thank you? We watch this Aardman ...

Not only is this gadget uncomfortably similar to a colonoscope, have a look at the discount they're offering, and the discount code. Wh...

I bow down at the knee to Philosophy Dude's sidebar . I don't even know that many things about myself.

Is this the worst pome in the world? It's by the Brussels-born (or not) 19th century eccentric Théophile Marzials, who was a librarian a...

Emma Kennedy off the telly has a blog . Who do these people think they are?

Here's the reprint of an article written in 1900 for Ladies' Home Journal, predicting what would come to pass in the next hundred ye...