TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

While watching Hunt for the Wilderpeople a couple nights ago, I heard this song in the soundtrack, and remembered hearing it in The Thoma...

"What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4...

A lethal complication in a patient who who had undergone microscopic transoral transsphenoidal surgery for a pituitary tumour.  That's a...

Apparently the phrase on the podium is real rathe than faked.  And it appears to be an official Homeland Security creation: The podium sign ...

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...