TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

Image cropped for size from the one at the nocontextpics subreddit.

I like the "interior route" because it heads north from Madison, Wisconsin through Minneapolis to Duluth and then right past Leech...

Identification at the HomeMaintenance subreddit.

Via Twitter .

This pipevine (planted seven years ago in a so-far-futile attempt to lure Pipevine Swallowtails ) has extended above the adjacent trellis. ...

YouTube link . This captivating 2008 performance of "Il Silenzio" features a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed b...

The sculpture in the photo is the Animals in War Memorial in Hyde Park. The memorial was inspired by Jilly Cooper's book Anima...

From Take Action for Libraries , via Kottke . Related : School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison

I missed two on my first read of the cartoon.  Answers are in the reader comments at the GoComics source. Part two :   Name the world capit...

I encountered the term for the first time today in a post at Explain Like I'm Five .  Here are some comments from that thread: It's ...

It distresses me to no end to see that the news cycle is already going full-blast on the next presidential election cycle.  Everything I hav...

Embedded above is her performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 A recently re-discovered recording of a...

I don't believe I've ever posted any symphonic music by Mahler on the blog before.  It's time to correct that.  His " Resur...

Nothing really new, but entertaingly presented.  Via Neatorama .

Three selections from  The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons by the World's Greatest Cartoonists  (Princeton Architectural Press, N...