Wonderchicken o-rama!

“Ransom kidnapping is a rare crime in America. Most cops go their entire careers without handling one. These days, most kidnappings involve a husband taking a child from an estranged wife. That’s…

Scintillation
a short film by Xavier Chassaing.

What does happiness sound like? Maybe Anna knows. Charles Spearin explores. Mrs. Morris - Vanessa
Two more tracks on the myspace page.

Despite being a kid’s show on PBS, Marc Brown’s Arthur series is still the favorite of many older viewers for its elaborate parodies and references to things like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner,

In April, an extraordinary auction will provide an unprecedented look into the private world of Michael Jackson. More than 2,000 items, ranging from personal effects and costumes to…

Leo Baxendale, Hunt Emerson
Neil Gaiman, Melinda Gebbie, Brendan McCarthy, Pat Mills, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Posy Simmonds, Bryan Talbot - Paul Gravett’s Heroes of UK Comics

black tea, green tea and white tea.
I’ve tried white tea for the first time today, the internet say that it’s the most healty, I don’t know, but surely it’s the most tasteless.

Early images of Egypt (via)

Boris Indrikov Gallery. [Via musecrack]

“The FAA has looked into the recommendations [which might have prevented the crash of Flight 3407], but not adopted them. Canada’s government adopted the suggested changes in 1999.” Learn more…

“The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British politics. Labour is moribund. But David Cameron has a chance to develop a “red Tory” communitarianism, socially…

Journalist Jill Homer writes about and takes media of snow cycling Up in Alaska. Now deputy managing editor of the Juneau Empire, she has written for NPR about being a snow cyclist. From the …

In 2000, the Spanish Pyrenean Ibex (a type of mountain goat) went extinct. In early 2009 it was brought back to life, the first time an extinct species has been “successfully” cloned. The newborn…

Super Robot Red Baron : Opening : The HQ : YOR! : Matsubara Mari

After ten years of legal battles, three federal judges rejected the theory that the MMR vaccine causes autism. “Petitioners’ theories of causation were speculative and unpersuasive,” wrote …