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The Transportation Security Administration must be staffed by the largest group of incompetents in the federal government (and that's sa...

As noted in Neatorama , Elizabeth Barrett of Lubbock, Texas has the reading skills of a school-age child, but is only 17 months old. She app...

A 13-year old girl is the new text-messaging champion of the United States. Morgan Pozgar from Pennsylvania beat 250 competitors and won t...

...belongs to an American Paint stabled in Kansas. It is twelve feet six inches in length, and listed in the Guiness Book of World Records. ...

I found a link today to a grammar blog written by a copyeditor, which has a useful entry clarifying in detail the differences between i.e. ...

As noted by MSNBC , the IRS is going to spend $42 million tax dollars to send out letters to taxpayers to notify them that rebate checks wil...

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...or, more precisely, people who are owned by cats. When I started this blog I vowed it would not devolve into a series of pictures of cut...

An interesting graphic which schematically portrays the interstate highway system. The image will be too small here in the blog; the origin...

The top one above is the 1984 television commercial introducing the Apple Macintosh to the world. I think it was 1985 when I got my first o...

Last week ABC news reported that sea level in the canals of Venice has plunged to the lowest level in fourteen years. While the scientist ...

In anticipation of the primary results tonight, I offer the following from an article in the Timesonline (U.K.) about Obama's campaign ...

This is a schematic drawing of a school bus. Which way is the bus going? A) Toward the left B) Toward the right C) It could be going either...

...you still have to be impressed by the data from the past year. The graph above comes from the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction; it s...