UK Company Proposes Space Journey to the Global Death Asteroid In case you missed the news last summer that we’re all gonna die gonna die gonna die — relax,...
Plague Graves Unearthed in Italy Today’s National Geographic feed has an amazing photo gallery of the Italian island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, an Italian site...
20 Strangest Experiments in Science The Museum of Hoaxes recently posted a list of the 20 strangest experiments in science. It makes for a...
How to Use a Sextant If you’re as big a geek as I am, you’ve often wondered how people found anything or got anywhere...
Map of Strange Is My New TV Without a doubt, sometimes Google Maps does some really weird stuff when stitching together images (like above), or catches...
Analysis of An Advanced, Ongoing Spam Attack It might be a post-mortem issue for spinn3r and Tailrank, but Jonathan Moore writes up this incredibly detailed post...
Pixel Cathedral: Gerhard Richter’s Window in the Köln Cathedral Wonderfully nerdy and absolutely beautiful. Just unveiled to the world last Saturday: this piece in Spiegel (image via) has...
Otaku Gas Tank Covers One of my favorite blogs, Pink Tentacle has this wonderfully detailed, photo-filled and translated post on gas tank covers...
If Hitchcock Made Housewares This seems to me like one of the best ideas ever. Fancy a shower, dearie? Just spotted at Martin...
World’s Biggest Diamond? Maybe. Image via. A variety of outlets are reporting on the hyooge diamond find in South Africa, supposedly a stone...