TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

My mother remembers having lighted candles on the tree. I remember the "bubble lights" shown above. Those and other lights are d...

"Nail art is a huge business in Japan, with more than A$2 million reportedly being spent on the industry last year .' More pix at ...

"Artist Anish Kapoor’s “Shooting into the Corner” was photographed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London Thursday. The exhibit is crea...

Two Germans were hospitalized after a battle in which the weapons were salamis and Parmesan cheese. He clubbed the younger man with a salam...

41,300 lights, on an oak tree in Bloomington, Minnesota. Story at the Star Tribune . Photo credit: Marlin Levison.

Counter-terrorist police in the UK are now visiting nursery schools. A police memo emailed to community groups in the West Midlands asks ...

Those of us who live "up north" often assume that trees are metabolically dormant in the winter, but under certain conditions they...

Skillfully performed. Notes from the band's website : But I see people playing multiple beer bottles…is that right? Yes, everyone was ...

I thought the "Mr. Magoo" helmet was unusual, but this one with a golden praying mantis is extraordinary. It's part of a new...

I had always thought that honeybees killed giant hornets by overheating them inside the "bee ball," but a new study reported in Sc...

Alexis Ohanian was one of the founders of Reddit, which is one of my favorite websites. In the brief (4 minute) TED talk above, he talks n...

TYWKIWDBI doesn't intend to become a consumer advice blog, but I would like to echo the sentiments of an article at the NYT this week. T...

A visually intriguing game. The video above is a promotional trailer. You can play a free (but very brief) demo at the game's website....

Yesterday we celebrated TYWKIWDBI's two-year "blogiversary" with an appropriate libation. As the photo above suggests, "b...

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