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John Shuster : U.S. curling captain John Shuster stuck out his tongue in the middle of a match and uttered for all to hear on television at...

DrawMyTweets is drawing Tweets, such as this one : "My friend Dave the Moose was just named North American Moose Lawyer of the Year! H...

I'm generally not a huge fan of the Pakistani army, but this (retired) Colonel Innocent Shams seems like a worthy person. Abseiling down...

Grampian Horn: Master 5 on Asphalt Flat Roof from Alex Morris on Vimeo . Lovely. Through and through.

For someone who doesn't appreciate sports, I've been enjoying my share of the Winter Olympics on US television via NBC. Some tangent...

Habitina was the catchy name for a proprietary concoction, available in USA in the early 1900s, meant to cure opium and morphine addicts. ...

Advertisement found in the Eclectic medical gleaner, Vol 2. 1906 . Let's see. Chloral Hydrate and Cannabis and hyoscyamine in one eas...

Senator Evan Bayh may try to run for something else in the future. The manner in which he announced his retirement yesterda y -- making it...

Photo: Life Magazine Early Woody Allen : At WFMU's Beware of the Blog , Kliph Nesteroff writes another wonderful post, this time abou...

Voltaire's Candide was published 250 years ago. There's a lot of genuinely funny stuff today that isn't as funny as that book....

A fine compendium of many well known (make what well seen ) character actors. Not sure why Harry Dean Stanton isn't there -- but it...

Kim statue image from The Telegraph . Morecambe statue image from Panoramio . Saw a photo of the Kim Jong-Il statue and it reminded me of ...

Scott Cohen won the Democratic Party slot for Illinois Lieutenant Governor thanks to spending $2 million and to a large field that split the...

I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain, Since I am myself my own fever and pain. No more now, fond heart, with pride no more swel...

Criterion Out of Print Sale Criterion Collection does generally fantastic releases of movies -- excellent prints transferred with great ca...

I studied immortal HeLa cells * at university. I knew there was a mystery about their origin, but had no idea anyone involved thought some...

Heroic Grump I caught a wonderful line while watching BBC News America's report on the Blair testimony at the Chilcot Inquiry today. Pa...

The other day I made passing reference to the ubiquity of the plainchant tune Dies Irae . Ever helpful, the BBC has put together a program ...

Image by Cwluc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwluc/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 For years we've all watched more and more people texting while walki...

Overweight Woman Sentenced in Boyfriend's 'Sitting' Death : "'So basically you can say that I can go sit on somebody an...