Crime scene photos from the 1920's to the 60's

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23/crime-scene-photographs_n_5193672.html

A very creepy film noir look to some of these.


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Somebody needs a hug!

https://www.behance.net/gallery/10283577/celebrity


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

The Taxidermy of William Potter

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029798/exposure/the-insane-victorian-taxidermy-of-walter-potter?partner=rss

Very odd, almost cute, and then veering into the disturbing...



(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Wedding Cakes for Nerds

http://mashable.com/2014/04/30/nerdy-wedding-cakes/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedly&utm_reader=feedly

Fun stuff!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Those damn kids!

http://happynicetimepeople.com/time-us-call-police-lazy-grandchildren/

RIP Bob Hoskins

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27224995#%22

New eye witness accounts discovered about the Charge of the Light Brigade

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10776275/New-accounts-emerge-of-Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade.html

The original Facebook

http://artdaily.com/news/69560/Getty-Research-Institute-in-Los-Angeles-acquires-a-rare-16th-century--Book-of-Friends#.U2DgB1dNx7M

Reenacting Waterloo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10784959/Re-enacting-the-Battle-of-Waterloo-via-a-trip-to-thePortaloo.html

The Ravens and their poetry market

http://blog.nyhistory.org/quoth-the-raven-poetry-circle/
Neat-o!  This is pretty cool.

Interesting article on Password protection

https://medium.com/editors-picks/3a72ab8b17f4
What comes across strongly to me would appall most folks - the whole Internet thing is a sieve - and there doesn't seem to be any real solution to it - within context.  The whole password thing is a mess, this article explains that quite plainly, and its solution strikes me as absurd. The idea that each of us become imitators of the Voynich Manuscript to protect a credit card is silly.   Call me a hopeless Luddite, but I would much prefer that most important financial transactions and records be done through a good old fashioned paper method.  It seems like every week there is some new headline screaming that a billion people have lost control of their credit cards, bank accounts, etc. etc. ad infinitum.  That never happened, couldn't happen, forty years ago.  If you want speed and (supposed) ease - just keep going the way that you are.  If you don't want to be bothered by dozens of  Rube Goldbergesque password equations, and security breaches every other day - go back to paper.  I don't see any way around it.

New technique in archaeology!

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/402693/chinese-mans-pee-unearths-ancient.html

Happy Birthday Wayne Kramer!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Kramer_%28guitarist%29

Happy Birthday Al Lewis!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506891/

Happy National Raisin Day!

Yum!

Happy International Jazz Day!

http://jazzday.com/

Happy Halfoween!

We're half-way to Halloween!!!

Happy Beltane/Walpurgisnacht!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane

Happy Birthday Tommy James!

https://www.tommyjames.com/

Happy Birthday Tammi Terrell!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammi_Terrell

Rebels!

http://officialfrenchtoast.tumblr.com/post/82707909228/modern-day-rebels-x

(Thanks for the link and title, Mathew!)

Apparently, this is not an article from The Onion

http://www.wtop.com/267/3611783/Teens-turn-lip-balm-into-dangerous-trend

I, for one, am so tired of hearing about the dangers of DUI...

When it's quite clear that the real danger lies in designated driving:

http://fox8.com/2014/04/27/bride-shoots-kills-own-niece-on-wedding-day/




(Thanks for the link, Linda!)

Happy Birthday William Moore!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lewis_Moore

A great martyr, almost forgotten now.

Happy Birthday Carolyn Jones!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427700/

Happy Birthday James Monroe!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe

Happy World Day for Safety and Health at Work!

http://www.ilo.org/safework/events/safeday/lang--en/index.htm

Today is Workers' Memorial Day

https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/workersmemorialday.html

Cousin Mary

http://www.wtae.com/news/murrysville-woman-claims-she-is-virgin-marys-cousin-65-times-removed/25553566

I just know that this is legit...   ;)

Happy Birthday Frank Belknap Long!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Belknap_Long

The death thermometer

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/history_of_innovation/2014/04/edouard_seguin_the_19th_century_doctor_who_tried_to_create_a_necrometer.html

A nice article analyzing Rube Goldberg's 'inventions'

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/history_of_innovation/2014/04/rube_goldberg_heath_robinson_and_the_history_of_fictional_inventions.html

Happy Birthday Carol Burnett!

http://carolburnettfan.com/

Happy Birthday Stevie Nicks!

http://rockalittle.com/

Happy National Pretzel Day!

Yum!

http://www.juliussturgis.com/

No sense of style

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/anthropomorphic-alligators/
I, for one, remember with great pleasure all of the stuffed alligator (and toad) Florida souvenirs of my youth.  It was one of my favorite parts of visiting the State.  Sigh...there's no respect for art...

Today's Star Trek Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfNv9qLvy4

I think that someone just vetoed the sainthood thing...

http://gawker.com/man-crushed-to-death-by-giant-crucifix-dedicated-to-pop-1567360301


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Monty Python movie coming out!

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/monty-python-stage-show-to-play-in-movie-theaters-worldwide-1201162961/

Happy Birthday to The Adventures of Robin Hood!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/

Premiered on this date in 1938.  One of my all-time fave movies.

Happy Birthday Gina Torres!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868659/

Happy Birthday Björn Ulvaeus!

http://www.biography.com/people/bj%C3%B6rn-ulvaeus-17188976#awesm=~oBO6dbf6X4fOy0

Happy Birthday Jerry Leiber!

http://www.leiberstoller.com/

Happy Birthday Meadowlark Lemon!

http://www.meadowlarklemon.org/

Happy Red Hat Society Day!

http://redhatsociety.com/press/fast-facts

Happy Arbor Day!

http://www.arborday.org/arborday/?trackingID=109&gclid=CJvp3rOxpr0CFW1nOgod1xIA-g

For my old age...

http://www.amazon.com/beverage-universal-attached-wheelchairs-walkers/dp/B0062BU3J4/ref=sr_1_2?tag=ohmy0c-20

The 50th anniversary of the cubicle

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/50th-anniversary-of-the-cubicle/
Dante missed this aspect of Hell....


(Thanks for the link, Carol!)

Captain Worf!!!

http://screenrant.com/star-trek-captain-worf-tv-show-michael-dorn/


I would so love to see this happen.

Today's cute Star Trek commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWLcubhc5XU

The Climber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmT80bKmVY

This guy is incredible.

A cute commercial for bus travel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llE8FtJnf-k

Photo Fun from Brock Davis

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/04/conceptual-hilarity-clever-bits-of-instagram-nonsense-from-brock-davis/

Very cute!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

British Pathe Newsreels on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe

This is a real treasure trove for history buffs.

(Thanks for the link, Ed!)

Happy Birthday William Castle!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0145336/

One of my faves!

The strangest meal you're going to see today

http://buzzfeed.tumblr.com/post/83017826560/hallucinists-i-think-about-this-video-almost


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Google's Newspaper Archive

http://news.google.com/newspapers

A very cool reference tool.

The return of airships?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-an-airship-the-size-of-a-football-field-could-revolutionize-air-travel-180950007/?no-ist

We'll see.  I've been hearing this refrain over and over again since high school, and we seem no closer now than we were way back then.

And more Wuss America

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/

Make Love, Not War - The Cutting Edge

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9603913/Anger-as-18th-century-Napoleonic-fort-used-for-porn-film.html

The Human Drum

http://www.strangehistory.net/2014/04/23/jan-ziska-human-drum/

If only Keith Moon and it could have gotten together...

Medical Lycanthropy

http://www.livescience.com/44875-werewolves-in-psychiatry.html?cmpid=557270

I always keep a close watch for one by monitoring the fire hydrant near my house.

Danish Bronze Age Beer on the way!

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2014/a-taste-of-bronze-age-brew
Yum!

NATO and UFO's

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/04/ufos-nato-the-mainbrace-affair/

An interesting story.

A wonderful and humorous blog about evolution

http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/

Wuss Parents

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/name-my-daughter_n_5190770.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

It should've been Cthulhu...

Heartbreak

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/classified-ad-_n_5192749.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Happy Birthday Ed Walker!

A local DC radio legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Walker_%28radio_personality%29

http://thejoyboys.com/

Happy Birthday Roy Orbison!

http://www.royorbison.com/

Happy National Picnic Day!

http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-picnic-day

Happy Birthday William Williams!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Williams_%28Continental_Congress%29

A Patriot.

Happy English Language Day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_English_Language_Day

Happy World Book Night!

http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/

Happy World Book & Copyright Day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day

Powdered alcohol

http://eater.com/archives/2014/04/18/powered-alcohol-gets-us-government-approval.php

This sounds both fake and vile.  Is anyone over the age of 20 really going to waste their money on this?



(Thanks for the link, Audrey!)

Tree Resurrection

http://laughingsquid.com/a-fallen-tree-magically-stands-back-up-in-its-original-position-after-being-cut-with-a-chainsaw/

Wuss America

http://laist.com/2014/04/10/students_harmless_science_projects.php

I never would make it through 3rd grade at this point...


(Thanks for the link, Mike!)

The return of MST3000???

http://io9.com/joel-hodgson-wants-to-resurrect-mystery-science-theater-1566056299

The re-release of the soundtrack to Porky's Revenge!

http://theseconddisc.com/2014/04/22/porkys-is-back-revenge-soundtrack-features-george-harrison-dave-edmunds-robert-plant-more/
Stupid movie, great soundtrack.

Happy Birthday Peter Frampton!

http://www.frampton.com/

Happy Birthday Rondo Hatton!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369061/

Happy Brithday Glen Campbell!

http://glencampbellmusic.com/

Happy Earth Day!

http://www.earthday.org/

Why I don't have any ebooks, and why I never will

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/you-dont-own-your-kindle-books-amazon-reminds-customer-f1C6626211

Anything or person who can destroy/take one of my books, could do the same thing to any ebook that I (supposedly) owned.  But not anyone or anything that could destroy/take an ebook could get to my  REAL books....

My next vehicle and driving lesson...

http://www.driveatank.com/


(Thanks for the link, Ed!)

The World's Fastest Record - from Jack White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGK84Yuihc&sns=em

Fun stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Erik!)

Snoopy Wins!

The red Baron was shot down on this date in 1918.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen

Happy Birthday Iggy Pop!

http://www.iggyandthestoogesmusic.com/us/news

Happy Patriot's Day!

http://www.nps.gov/mima/patriots-day.htm

Happy Dyngus Day!

http://www.dyngusdaybuffalo.com/

Nice artilce on coincidence studies

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/622460-frontier-science-dr-bernard-beitman-on-coincidence-studies/

New studies supporting the existence of precognition

http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2014/04/feeling-future-meta-analysis.html

UFO - or a new stealth aircrarft being tested?

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/clearer-photo-of-mysterious-ufo-taken-in-1564513147/+jesusdiaz

Photos of extoic dancers of the 1890's

Hubba hubba!

http://www.retronaut.com/2012/01/exotic-dancers-1890s/

Robert E. Howard Days is coming in June

http://www.rehupa.com/?page_id=4136

Pulp AdventureCon in New Jersey in November

http://boldventurepress.com/

A new Cthulhu collection!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0993718000

The delicious irony...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597411/Was-Adolf-Hitlers-lover-Eva-Braun-Jewish-family.html

A cute Dragnet parody/mashup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcwkioSe5BI&feature=youtu.be

Nice little article on Northeastern Breweries

http://www.buzzfeed.com/h2/fbsp/amtrak/awesome-northeast-breweries-you-should-know-about

Happy Birthday L'Auberge Chez Francois!

One of my fave restaurants, opened on this date in 1976.

http://www.laubergechezfrancois.com/

Happy Birthday George Takei!

http://www.georgetakei.com/

Beginning of month of Floreal in French revolutionary calendar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor%C3%A9al

Happy Easter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJaDzI_wVg&feature=kp

My Next Lair...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poveglia-worlds-most-haunted-island-up-for-auctionis-anyone-be-brave-enough-to-buy-it-9264797.html

Happy Birthday Tim Curry!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/

Happy Birthday Dudley Moore!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001545/

Happy Brithday

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/sherman.htm

A Patriot.

Happy National Amaretto Day!

Yum!

http://www.disaronno.com/

Happy Birthday Phlorescent Leech!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Volman

Happy National Garlic Day!

http://www.nationalgarlicday.com/

Yum!

Happy Record Store Day!

http://www.recordstoreday.com/

Remind me never to visit Peoria

http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/18/peoria-mayor-calls-out-police-to-track-d

The mustache fits...

The cutting edge of Tetra Min

http://www.thelocal.no/20140411/man-finds-dildo-in-cods-stomach


I do believe that the Beach Boys were ahead of the curve on this new type of fish food:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab_beh07HU

The cutting edge of not going silently into the night...

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2014/04/n32343.html

I believe that this is referred to as Amateur Night

http://www.thelocal.de/20140411/school-kids-hospitalized-after-porno-party

Headline of the day

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2014/04/n32363.html

The Black Ring

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2604240/What-Black-Ring-Leamington-Spa-Mysterious-object-sky-captured-girl-16-iPhone.html
Interesting, if true...

A wonderful collection of WWII propaganda cartoons

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/04/17/bugs-bunny-goes-to-war-how-hollywood-animators-turned-their-toons-loose-on-the-axis/
A lot of these have been circulating as pirate copies for years, but it's nice to see them online now.

Prince album and reissues on the way!

http://variety.com/2014/music/news/prince-makes-peace-with-warner-music-sets-new-album-and-reissues-1201159487/

Dreams In the Witch House - A Lovecraftian Rock Opera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxWH3HEJIHo

P:reviously unreleased Jefferson Airplane recordings

http://www.willardswormholes.com/?p=22745

Very strange...

Happy Birthday to Legend!

Premiered on this date in 1995, a very under-rated TV show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112045/

Happy Birthday Clarence Darrow!

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/darrow.htm

Happy Brithday Ebenezer Learned!

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/learned.html

A Patriot.

Happy International Day for Monuments and Sites!

http://www.icomos.org/en/what-we-do/focus/18-april-international-day-for-monuments-and-sites

Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/

A great interview with Nils Lofgren

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/nils-lofgren-talks-guitars-springsteen-neil-young-and-box-set-face-the-music-598485/1

Am really looking forward to the box set.

An interesting article on the state of the beer industry in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-state-of-american-beer/360583/

It's amusing to see how bland the top 10 brands and wimpy the top ten brands are.  Am proud to say that I honestly don't think I've tasted one in close to twenty years.  Stone Rules!

Happy Birthday Liz Phair!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Phair

Happy Birthday Kristine Sutherland!

http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Kristine_Sutherland

Happy Birthday Senor Wences!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%B1or_Wences

Genius.

Happy Birthday Benjamin Tucker!

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/tucker/biography.html

Happy Birthday Samuel Chase!

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/chase.htm

A Patriot.

Happy National Cheeseball Day!

http://cheesetique.com/

Yum!

Muppet Christ Superstar

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/16/muppet_christ_superstar_why_songwriter_christo_graham_created_the_hilarious.html

A Jewish Arabia?

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/04/07/A-Jewish-state-in-Saudi-Arabia-New-British-document-reveals-1917-idea-to-do-so.html

An interesting little footnote to the history of Zionism.

Britain's accents in 1:24 take!

http://twentytwowords.com/tour-accents-across-british-isles-performed-single-unedited-take/

Fun stuff!


(Thanks for the link, Ed!)

Am I old fashioned - or just edjumicated?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/10/word-meaning_n_5113730.html
I am a bit curious about this article.  With the exception of the word 'literally', I believe that I use all of the words listed here the way that the article states that they were originally intended to be used.  Would this be a generational problem?  Because I honestly didn't get any shock value out of the explanations:  "Oh!  I've been saying it wrong all of this time!", etc. 

Happy Birthday Gerry Rafferty!

http://www.gerryrafferty.com/clientsites/20541/hold.html

Happy Birthday Sean Maher!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0536883/

Happy Birthday Dusty Springfield!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield

Happy Birthday Jacob Coxey!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_S._Coxey,_Sr.

Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin!

http://www.charliechaplin.com/

Happy Emancipation Day!

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/emancipation-day-dc

Ten Reasons Why Librarians Are Awesome

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jul13hong/10-reasons-why-librarians-are-awesome


(Thanks for the link, Carol!)

Some old time baseball portraits - with a mysteriously suspended baseball

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/posed-portraits-of-19th-century-baseball-stars/

Fun stuff!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Dick Cavett talks about Groucho and others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SCOBqosyk#t=232

Fantastic!  Cavett at his best.

Happy Birthday to In Living Color!

Premiered on this date in 1990.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098830/

Happy Birthday Dave Edmunds!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Edmunds

Happy Birthday Hans Conreid!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175788/

One of my fave character actors.

Happy Birthday Leonardo da Vinci!

http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396

A collection of giant statues

http://www.fubiz.net/en/2014/04/13/colosses-by-fabrice-fouillet/

Fascinating pictures.


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Cold War Sauron in North Dakota

http://gizmodo.com/a-pyramid-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-built-to-track-the-e-1562753133

Fascinating images.


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Cuckoo Day!

http://www.projectbritain.com/year/april.htm

Happy Birthday Tony Burrows!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Burrows

Happy Birthday Sarah Michelle Gellar!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001264/

Happy Birthday Gerry Anderson!

http://www.fanderson.org.uk/bios/gerryanderson.html

Anniversary of the Pine Tree Riot of 1772

http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/02/the-pine-tree-riot/

Happy John Hanson Day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanson

The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html?_r=2
A wonderful saga of research into American culture.


(Thanks for the link, Erik!)

The cutting edge of Beatles Reunions?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/use-your-delusion-dentist-wants-to-clone-john-lennon-raise-as-son-20140410

Thai Psychedelia

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/mindblowing_psychedelia_from_thailand

Very cool.

Food Maps

https://www.yahoo.com/food/food-maps-informative-delicious-freaking-beautiful-79465307961.html

Cute!

Some fun facts about the TV series Firefly

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56022/23-fun-facts-about-firefly

I miss that show...

Happy Birthday Don Adams!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/

Happy Birthday Mighty Max!

http://www.maxweinberg.com/

Happy Birthday Charles Armand Tuffin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Armand_Tuffin,_marquis_de_la_Rouerie

A Patriot.

Happy Birthday Al Green!

http://www.algreenmusic.com/

Happy Birthday Harold Stassen!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stassen

Only 200 Days Until Halloween!

A nice article about the induction of the E Street Band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

http://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/music/emotional-tribute-spotlights-e-street-s-belated-hall-date-1.918309

Anniversary of the recording of Rock Around The Clock in 1954!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock

Happy Birthday Tiny Tim!

http://www.tinytim.org/

Happy Birthday Nicholas Brendon!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107183/

Happy National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day!

Yum!

Anniversary of the Halifax Resolves of 1776

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Resolves

A precursor to the Declaration of Independence.

Happy National Licorice Day!

Yum!

Happy International Day of Human Space Flight!

https://www.un.org/en/events/humanspaceflightday/

Album covers - The Reverse Side...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/93699963@N04/with/8519201133/

Fun stuff!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Beer from Marky Ramone!

http://www.musicianswithoutborders.org/2014/04/marky-ramone-supports-mwb/

We're going to need more cocktail sauce....

http://www.livescience.com/44381-filter-feeding-cambrian-creature-unearthed.html?cmpid=556803

How to Carouse during the Regency

http://historyofloveblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/how-to-carouse-like-a-proper-regency-gent/

Sounds like college to me...

A new map for the States?

http://geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2014/01/03/alternative-us-large.jpg
Of course, I love the idea of the state of NoVa, (I'd call in Potomac, myself).  I'd also suggest making the Western Slope of Colorado separate from the East. 

The ultimate spoon

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/09/ancient-egyptian-mummy-spatula_n_5116337.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Happy Birthday Richard Berry! And Happy Louie Louie Day!

http://www.louieday.org/default.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vae_AkLb4Q

Happy Birthday Alferd Packer!

http://www.museumtrail.org/alferdpacker.asp

Mr. Hamburger Helper!

Happy 8 Track Tape Day!

http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/April/eighttracktapeday.htm

Happy National Cheese Fondue Day!

Yum!

http://cheesetique.com/

The last of the Navajo Code Talkers

http://www.dvidshub.net/image/1229305/building-rededication#.U0cP91dvCLU

Giants.

Anniversary of the breakup of the Beatles

On this date in 1970...

http://www.thebeatles.com/

Happy Birthday Bobby Smith!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Smith_%28rhythm_and_blues_singer%29

A great soul singer.

Happy Birthday Alfred Kubin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kubin

Happy National Siblings Day!

http://www.siblingsday.org/

Album Art as Street Views

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/07/classic-album-covers-in-google-street-view-in-pictures

This is pretty neat!


(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

I, for one, Welcome our new alien baboon overlords

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/alien-corpse-turns-out-to-be-a-female-mummified-baboon-8703737.html

Napoleon's secret supporters

http://theoddmentemporium.tumblr.com/post/76318142513/ratak-monodosico-when-napoleon-left-france-for

Pretty neat!

Beethoven of 167 theremins!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51929/167-theremin-players-perform-beethoven

This is something you won't see/hear every day...

Weapons of the Polish Underground

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/04/07/home-made-arsenal-nine-ingenious-weapons-of-the-polish-underground/

An interesting footnote to the War.  I seem to remember reading that there was much more of this improvisational stuff going on - including gas masks. 

Happy Birthday Carl Perkins!

http://rockhall.com/inductees/carl-perkins/bio/

Happy Birthday Paul Robeson!

http://www.biography.com/people/paul-robeson-9460451

Happy Birthday Avery Schreiber!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Schreiber

Happy Birthday Tom Lehrer!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

Vaccinations - the Onion explains the Pros and Cons

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-pros-and-cons-of-vaccinating-children,35731/

Apparently, Kate Mulgrew will say anything for money...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/star-trek-actress-lends-her-gravitas-to-film-promoting-idea-that-sun-revolves-around-earth/

Happy Birthday Emma Caulfield!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0146536/

A nice article on the history and status of 'space guns'

https://medium.com/looking-up/fa2dda0561ec


Pretty interesting how the technology has evolved, as have the reasons.


(Thanks for the link, John!)

A Dave Clark 5 TV special is coming up!

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475603088199062#printMode

Happy National Beer Day!

http://www.stonebrew.com/

(Thanks for the notice on this, Edmund!)

RIP Mickey Rooney

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/arts/mickey-rooney-master-of-putting-on-a-show-dies-at-93.html?emc=edit_na_20140407&nlid=13038199&_r=0

Happy Birthday Janis Ian!

http://www.janisian.com/

Happy Birthday Ravi Shankar!

http://www.ravishankar.org/

Happy World Health Day!

http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2014/en/

Vader The Pooh

http://twentytwowords.com/voice-winnie-pooh-reads-darth-vaders-lines-star-wars/

A possible promo for the new Godzilla movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wML2V6crNc0

And a lifetime in therapy begins....now!

http://sftimes.co/?id=418&src=share_fb_new_418

Happy Birthday Phil Austin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Austin

Happy Birthday John Waterhouse!

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.net/

One of my fave illustrators/painters.

Happy Tartan Day!

http://www.tartanday.org/

Club MST3000!!!

http://www.club-mst3k.com/

You can watch many dozens of episodes online for free, here!

Ten cutting edge technologies that are (maybe) on the way

http://listverse.com/2013/08/29/10-incredible-cutting-edge-technologies-in-development/

Plague Shawls

http://mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/the-plague-shawl-1878/

Shaving in WWI

http://dralun.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/shaving-in-the-trenches-washing-and-grooming-in-the-great-war/

A footnote to life (such as it was) in the trenches.

Egyptians in Australia?

http://humansarefree.com/2014/03/ancient-egyptian-glyphs-found-in.html

Maps of Hell

http://biblioklept.org/2014/03/27/maps-of-hell/
More than a few folks have told me that I'm going to need these....

Before there were bitcoins....

http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/megalithic-money-yap-001518

Monkey Suicide

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26872177

Article about the FBI and ESP

http://groundreport.com/fbi-document-shows-interest-in-using-esp-for-intelligence-gathering-purposes/

Happy Birthday Robert Bloch!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bloch

Happy First Contact Day!

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/First_Contact_Day

In 2063...

Happy Birthday Agnetha Fältskog!

http://www.agnetha.com/

Happy Birthday Nigel Hawthorne!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001329/

Happy Birthday Roger Corman!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/

Happy Tomb Sweeping Day!

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/holidays/qingming.htm

Great Reviews of a Worthless Product

http://www.amazon.com/Quirky-Eggminder-Internet-Connected-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4/ref=sr_1_1?tag=ohmy0c-20

Tinkerbell Lives!

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/british_professor_claims_to_have_photographed_fairies

Happy Birthday Robert Downey, Jr.!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/

Happy Birthday Muddy Waters!

http://www.muddywaters.com/

Happy Birhtday Rumpole!

Premierd on this date (in Britain) in 1978.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078680/

Happy Birthday Tony Benn!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn

Happy Birthday Washington Irving!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Irving

The Boogeyman of Baltimore

http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-horror-in-heights.html

A nice bit of regional folklore.

A Gypsy "Kingdom" in Scotland?

http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/07/13/the-kingdom-of-yetholm/

A fun little bit of history.

Illustrations of 19th century London

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/03/26/long-forgotten-london/
Pretty neat.

The ultimate fruitcake

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/29809

We're rollin' in it

http://www.wtop.com/41/3594972/Americas-wealthiest-counties-Six-of-top-10-richest-counties-in-DC-area

All of those fat government contracts, you know...

Two Sentence Horror Stories

http://m.tickld.com/x/20-two-sentence-horror-stories-that-will-keep-you-up-at-night-7-gave-me-chills

Pretty neat!

DARPA and the "Transhuman Soldier'

http://io9.com/darpas-new-biotech-division-wants-to-create-a-transhum-1556857603

The Vampire Candidate!

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/floridas-vampire-candidate-future-of-american-politics-2014-4

Happy Birthday Leon Russell!

http://www.leonrussellrecords.com/

Happy Birthday Marvin Gaye!

http://www.marvingayepage.net/

Mad Jack

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/scots-sword-wielding-wwii-hero-honoured-by-book-1-3357307

An interesting hero of WWII.

Different styles to declaring war in WWII

http://www.strangehistory.net/2014/03/23/declaring-war-national-styles/
A very interesting article and comparison.

Modern Mammoths

http://www.strangehistory.net/2014/02/27/colonel-fowler-and-the-mammoth/

It was a long time ago that I seem to remember there being one or two reports or diaries by the very earliest European explorers into the American interior citing something that sounded like a mammoth or mastodon that they'd encountered.

Great moments in education and interplanetary understanding

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/1ba2/?cpg=60790773&msg_id=60790773&et_rid=909235805&linkid=60790773_feature2_1ba2

Happy Birthday Pirate Radio! (the film)

Premiered on this date in 2009.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131729/

Happy Birthday Ronnie Lane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Lane

Happy Birthday Lon Chaney, Sr.!

http://lonchaney.com/

Happy National Sourdough Bread Day!

http://www.sourdo.com/

Yum!

Happy St. Stupid's Day!

http://www.saintstupid.com/menu.html

Happy April Fool's Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ