Don't stop here. It's white rabbit country!

And in 1967, Ralph Steadman illustrated Alice in Wonderland.

It's Alan Grant's world

Robotic wardens to patrol South Korean prisons.

So they came back?

Just announced: the discovery of eleven new species of bees, four of which are within the environs of New York City.

Zorro was Irish?

Irish caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.

Here comes the sun

A US-based team of scientists claims to have invented a material that releases over two weeks of night-vision light after just one minute's exposure to the sun.

No, no drug connection at all. At all.

Salvador Dali illustrated an edition of Alice in Wonderland in 1969. Here's the art.

And the GOP doesn't believe in climate change?

The Pentagon wants information on how climate change will affect national security.

More bull worship, eh, Mike?

Bloomberg LP is moving and restoring the Roman Temple of Mithras to it's original site.

WWHPLD

Antarctica's Gamburtsev "ghost mountains" explained.

Surfing the lakes of Europa

Current best available evidence says that lakes of water exist 3km under the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

But if they didn't have gov't funded free labor, might they not actually hire people? For wages?

Young job seekers in the UK are told to work for Tesco's for free or get kicked off the dole.

Taking STOCK

Senators Scott Brown and Kirsten Gillibrand introduce a bill that make it illegal for members of Congress to make money on Wall Street from information gleaned during performing their job.  Huh. I thought just enforcing insider trading laws on Congress should and would do the trick.

Scam scam scam scam

We've had multiple calls today from someone claiming to be Dr Max Peters representing the Pennsylvania Hospital Association. He refuses to believe the man he's calling for no longer works here. of course, he himself is dead. Filing this here so I can find it later.

Moist towelette part two

The female orgasm captured in a series of brain scans.

Thanks for helping the cause, Mike

New York court orders Bloomberg to show just cause for this morning's eviction.

Heavy metal flute and fiddle. You're welcome.

Vote the bastards out

Congress gets a pass on insider trading.

Project Repurpose

Turning an unfinished bank office building into a vertical park.

Erlik Part Two

More on the Garamantes, a lost civilization that lived in what is now Libya.

My Hatred For the Business Mentality Part 28

Borders closed not because people stopped reading or even stopped buying books at their chain. Borders closed because management didn't know how to sell books.

Dangerous reactionaries

Scotland Yard arrests UK hate group over planned terrorist activities against Occupy London.

Erlik & Crom!

Satellite images show cities from a lost civilization under the Sahara. Archaeologists are hoping to study them better with Qaddafy gone.

Libertine Bubble Theory

The origin of sex was interaction not reproduction.

He was most holy at behaving quite foully

Aleister Crowley is being credited with the blame for the deaths associated with Howard Carter's opening of King Tut's tomb, all filed under the banner "the Curse of Tutankhamun."

I want yesterday's future

Artistic renderings of O'Neill L-5 space habitats from the 1970s. 

"Your love is like a crocodile, chewing on an old bone..."

Erotic/love poetry from Ancient Egypt and Sumer. And, no, nothing ever changes.

Wild Horses

Cave art implies that leopard-spotted (dappled) horses existed beside humans in Europe 25,000 years ago.

"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."

How Klout makes Facebook look like a bunch of privacy loving hippies.

Caution: Probably needs more tests, but looks good

A mixture of green tea and a red laser destroy rogue beta-amyloid plaques that crowd the brains of people with the disease.

Now Arzach, maybe?

Trailer for an unmade Incal movie, based on the work of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius.

Remember remember

For quick and easy protest covering. The money for Guy Fawkes bandannas doesn't go to an evil faceless multinational corporation.

Aging halted?

Doctor Rufo in Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road said he liked having the appearance of a mature man and the hidden musculature and stamina of a man in his twenties (despite his circadian years) because it permitted him to surprise younger men in a fight and women in the bedroom. I endorse this opinion, and it looks like such a thing may be possible in the near future.