The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

From a little elf.

Though not frickin’ sharks with frickin’ lazer beams, Project Orcon, for “organic control,” was funded by the US military in World War II.
The control system involved a lens at the front of the missile projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while a pigeon trained (by operant conditioning) to recognize the target [...]

I don’t mean to make any connection to the Connecticut senator’s politics, as I actually don’t mind the guy, but this is just awesome.

Many people who have ridden the economical and unbelievably fast Fung Wah Bus around the northeast have had adventurous experience on the road, which makes this pretty much the best costume of all time.

Bravo.

The Baron spent about 20 minutes last night trying to get some leftover pasta in the middle of our coffee table. It was one of the cutest and funniest things I’ve ever seen. I captured some of it and uploaded it to video on YouTube. He’s brought so much joy and entertainment [...]

A great set of commercials from Bangkok Insurance.

From the first post in Michelle’s shiny new blog.

Awesome post analyzing the frequency of all the various ways one may spell the Piratical greeting, “Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!” Fitting mathematical exercise as September 19th was National Talk Like a Pirate Day, commemorated even on Wife Swap’s opening show this season. Nice work, Mah Rabu!

From a recently received email:
And you thought those people that set up roomfulls of dominos to knock
over were amazing…
There are no computer graphics or digital tricks in the film.
Everything you see really happened in [...]