I scribbled this in between Rummy 500 games, and it reflects my take on the current thought in physics on the shape of the local spacetime b...

Next time you wonder what we're doing here, what's the point, what could we ever accomplish, rest easy! Look above at all the great ...

Deep thoughts Brahs and Brahettes: There's no "up" in space, no "down". These directional words are only meaningful ...

Pic from the ISS, our last bastion of space travel, and a near complete waste of time and resources - little will ever be accomplished on th...

Lookee real close here - that's a sunspot, and an International Space Station (Click for big). Did you know that a full solar eclipse is...

As I've said many times in many ways, the closer you look at something, the weirder it gets. In fact, when you focus on anything directl...

  Two recent examples of insect sized robots - flying ones at that. The limiting factor as of now to how small these types of robots can get...

WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME? GAME OVER! NEXT! Seriously: A ping pong playing robot. Fairly impressive. In fact, this entire storylin...

Say hello to the latest creepy invention of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro - who excels at making creepy robots. It's his "thing",...

If you lack or have learned to lose a certain sense of shame, pimpin' is certainly easy. Here's an expert: Mike Damone : I mean don...

It's from the intertube - it doesn't have to make sense. Which made me think: The absurd is funny because our brains recognize that ...

Say what you will about the Queen, and royalty in general, but she knows how to handle a Bat'Leth pretty well. Look at that forearm stre...

"Odin the Traveler", (1886) by Georg Van Rosen.  Santa Claus like, but also like the hobo down at the 7-11, picking through trash...

What I find fascinating about this somewhat cheesy drawing: JRR Tolkien basically invented these genres of Swords and Sorcerers, Dungeons an...

Or it might be Huginn. I get those two mixed up all the time. Regardless, watch your garbage pails - you know how ravens like trash.

An amusing sub-category of "Funny Animal Pictures" is the topic of "Animals Smoking". It's usually monkey related, b...

This is Koko. She knows thousands of words in sign language, understands English but cannot speak it, had a kitten, lost a kitten, had a sa...

Everyone needs at least one person who's got their back. L'il Fido here's hooked up. Ain't it the cutest thing?!

Some recent, and brief, guerrilla art by Olek (one name only!). Guerrilla art is the best art, since by definition it is not co-opted. I als...

Real pic. Fido here done got his head stuck in a hole in the wall, and needed the fire department to rescue him. Which they did, and he'...

You've heard of this cat, yes? The thought experiment goes like this: At the quantum level, it is impossible to both determine the locat...

Why dontchya toss me a wee biscuit for Jah now Mon, won't ya?! Jah-Jahhhhh, Jah-Jah-Jahhhhhh. I heard a reggae song recently that ha...

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I spent WAAAY too long today searching for this picture on the intertubes, only to fail. :( I have it at home, and thus my overzealous attem...

To be clear, it's all Reagan's fault. Well, he's the symbol of it, the guy who led the charge. But it's really of course the...

Under the theory that the first three years of any new decade is actually part of the previous decade, culturally (Consider: 1963 was part o...