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Last night I attended Ethan's second LARP. He was running a published (freely available online) game, The Final Voyage of...

Two computer-security things: Y'all know not to open unsolicited attachments, yes? And that the huge number of emails you've probably...

nj points to the University of Minnesota's remarkable collection of social hygiene posters. Everything from the 1922 "Danger in Familiarity"...

Thanks to Kam, I now have a couple of new favorite places: Favorite place in Salt Lake City even though...

A hurricane FAQ (from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) explains why we can't use nukes to stop hurricanes ('cause,...

I've been seeing grammatical constructions like this a lot lately (examples made up by me), both in fiction and elsewhere:...

According to a Voice of America article, Condoleezza Rice sez the administration never said Saddam Hussein was involved in the...

Cute little article from Columbia News Service about gay penguins at the New York Aquarium. The best thing, though, is...

More excellent optical illusions from a Japanese site that appears to specialize in them, along the same lines as an...

Sometimes the results of allegedly scientific studies end up sounding about as valid and relevant as web-based personality quizzes. For...

Interesting story: "throughout the 1990s," a rotating group of MIT students took regular trips to Vegas, where they used expert...