Black Vinyl Rituals and the Madness of Crowds
You know, if you’d asked me yesterday, “What fascinating topics do you expect get all excited about tomorrow?” I...
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Rash of Egyptian Shark Attacks
Three snorkelers have been injured, and a German woman killed, in shark attacks off the Egyptian resort town of...
Murder in Celebration: Axe Bludgeoned in a Time of Artificial Innocence
For Autumn, the lampposts lining the streets of downtown Celebration, Florida belch out leaf-shaped confetti onto the sidewalks to...
Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Take Down Swiss Bank
Late Monday evening Swiss time, a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack by hackers took down the website of PostFinance, the...
Carbon Nanotubes Are the New Blacker Than Black
The third-best thing about NASA’s announcement that it’s created carbon nanotubes one-nanometer diameter to make a paint blacker than...
Making Child Abuse Facebook Famous
You see…I am what they call a “fantasy-prone personality.” While dodging “suggestions” from people who, on most days, wisely...
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale – The Santa Flick From Hell
Holiday movie fare being typically comprised of the intellectual equivalent of a DIY trepanning kit, most of us would...
Teddy Roosevelt, Monster Hunter?
Did you know Theodore Roosevelt came this close to hunting a South American plesiosaur? “This” close being not at...
Cryonics in Fiction: More Fun With Frozen Dead People
Cryonic fiction! In case you either just can’t get enough information about freezing your head, or you just keep...
Christ Comes to Omaha
Look, I know you probably already know this, but you should be really, really careful what you search for...