TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Reposted from 2013 to add updated incredible numbers (see embed above) for this morning's weather. In 2013 I added this video of Lady Ga...

Explained here : Mad Hatter Day is 10/6. The date was chosen from the illustrations by John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in W...

Here's the owner's story, posted at Reddit : The lamp is a glass jar full of all the things that my mom found in my pockets ...

Instagram influencers are promoting "perineum sunning" as a health practice. “In a mere 30 seconds of sunlight on your buttho...

But now she's Queen of Denmark.  Her story is told in the New York Times . ...when Mary Donaldson, then a 28-year-old from Tasmania work...

Park bench in Brighton, via Bored Panda .

Methodology and discussion of results at FlowingData . Addendum :  data for Europe found by reader Bicycle Rider:

Here are some comments from the Plumbing subreddit: Tell her the people that sell them say they're flushable. The people that repair pl...

I first discovered and blogged about a drainage ditch with duck decoys  back in 2018, then wrote a followup post in 2019 .  After a pandemic...

Light pole wins.  Found at the idiotsincars subreddit, where there are some salient comments.

Image cropped slightly for size from the original at the New York Times , which reports that the recent torrential rains in California have ...

Elon Musk's unmanned SpaceX Starship experienced a failure today: SpaceX’s engineers are still sorting through exactly what went wrong w...

As a synecdoche for the tragedy of our historical moment, consider a news item about the murder of nineteen schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas....

I will 100% guarantee that the device was placed in the newborn's hands by delivery room personnel, perhaps just for laughs or maybe for...

The image is not Photoshopped; the snowman is 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide.  "It took forty hours and the entire weekend, with tempora...

 Somehow I missed this announcement three months ago: According to findings of the 2022 Original Tooth Fairy Poll® released by Delta Dental,...

The blurb embedded at the right was sent to me by a non-blog friend.  It's typical of the "viral" items that circulate via ema...

Astronomers are reporting that there’s a chance that a “meteor storm” could occur on the night of Memorial Day. It probably won’t happen, bu...

Here in the Upper Midwest, one of the rites of spring is to hook up the garden hose and wash away all the crap that has built up on the floo...

The television special in 1964 was off my radar as I headed off to college that year, but an article by Caitlyn Flanagan in The Atlantic wh...