A post on Slumbering Lungfish that made me wince slightly.

Joining the ThinkGeek Binary Watch in the category of “cool but completely impractical timepieces” comes this clock which mimics planetary orbits to tell time. Link (via Neatorama)

There was a recent news article about a woman who murdered her young daughter. The crime itself is horrific, but this quote simply boggled me: Spann’s father, Gary Spann, told The Sacramento Bee in 2005 his daughter… belonged to a cult that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of the 16th century…

Lore Sjöberg’s Alt Text column this week is a reductio ad absurdum about easy-to-use technology. Even though he’s being humorous, this line kind of struck me: Did you know that it’s possible to calculate a cosine even if you think “cosine” is a brand of nasal decongestant? We don’t allow people to walk around with…

With removable saucer section, no less. Link (via BoingBoing)

If I wasn’t afraid that Shadow would divorce me, I would immediately be heading for the tattoo parlor.Link (via Wil Wheaton)

“It’s another day without the internets. Man, it feels like 1993 all over again. Sure, I have a computer, but it doesn’t know anything I hadn’t told it.” — From James Lileks’ blogThat’s one of the nicest summations of what the Internet does for us that I’ve ever run into.

I’ve never watched Lost because hello? I have a toddler. I haven’t had access to a television since he discovered Barney. For those of you who aren’t massively betoddlered and have some idea of what’s going on with the show, the folks at Insanely Great Tees have created downloadable labels so you can have your…

Link (Yaknow, this would have made a great present for Chip’s birthday … )