TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

This photo was called an "accidental optical illusion" when it was posted at Reddit .  I think that's a very apt descriptio...

An incredible optical illlusion.  I tried covering up the arrow prompts with paper, but the cubes still "move". Sadly I've nev...

I'm posting this for any other English majors who may be followers of this blog.  I've been an avid reader of Faulkner since my coll...

For fox ache.   The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, says that four of its tribal members were recent...

In this "immortal quatrain," Dorothy Parker explained that her limit was two: “I like to have a martini, Two at the very mo...

Photo cropped for size and emphasis from the original posted in The Guardian .

"A woman peddles bouquets of flowers outside the ruins of the passport office in Aleppo. " Photographs from Syria, January 2025, b...

Over the past 15 years I have blogged items about the flying corset , the eternal "man-child"  concept, and about Captain Hook...

Assume the goose (as pictured) is on the bed.  Via Australia Reader's Digest .  Answer below the fold...

Everyone who has a phone understands about the need for upgrading the system periodically, but I was surprised by the urgency implied in thi...

My understanding would be that a "quantum leap" would refer to the distance between one electron orbit to another within an atom [...

Image cropped for size from the original, posted in the antiques subreddit.  I'll place the answer "below the fold" so you ca...

A letter to the editor in the August 2025 issue of American Philatelist magazine commented on a previous article about how the changeover f...

Herewith, selections from a "comprehensive guide to the terms gen Z is using to talk about romance, sex and the pursuit of both." ...