Mar 30, 2012

8-year-old Jake Ryan writes an advertisement for the Sony Xperia phone.

Mar 30, 2012

Man, just for once I want the Doctor Who villain-of-the-week to end up being a guy in a suit trying to to scare people away from buried treasure, or attract customers to his amusement park or something (via skyedelviscio:...

Mar 30, 2012

Anyone who’s puzzled by the current “Prosperity Gospel” should read The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, or at least be familiar with it. Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, and others who preach bluntly that God wants you to be rich are not making up their beliefs in a vacuum. They are building on a foundation laid by...

Mar 29, 2012

When the sea is calm, the fisherman's eyes can see the movements of the fish deep down...

Mar 27, 2012

This is a thing that is real.

Mar 21, 2012

Chinese artist Li Wei performs in the sky over the Fontaine of Lyons at La Villette in Paris.

Mar 21, 2012

The text says, “Your pocket change; his life-saving water.”

Mar 20, 2012

Parts of US law that engineers need to know in order to do their jobs are secret – you are only allowed to read them if you pay thousands of dollars for the right to find out what the law of the land is. Today at BoingBoing: Did you know that vital parts of the US law are secret, and you’re only allowed to read them if you pay a standards body...

Mar 18, 2012

Not gonna fall for it...

Mar 16, 2012

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed.