Some experiments make me laugh out loud.
If you filled a swimming pool with gloop, would you swim slower or faster?
I reckoned slower, but then I am not much of a swimmer. I hate any activity where you die if you stop moving, because my natural inclination is to freeze if I get into trouble. [...]

Fifty years ago, Nikita Kruschev strode to the podium of the Twentieth Party Congress in the Kremlin, and began to speak. He revealed the unspoken, the unspeak-able.
“Stalin originated the concept “enemy of the people.” This term automatically made it unnecessary that the ideological errors of a man or men engaged in a controversy [...]

You have probably worked out that I am feral about bureaucratic stupidity. Not for ideological reasons, but I hate to see a powerful apparatus grind people up while they are chained helpless before folly.
Last weekend a very very stupid mother put her four year old son over a four foot wooden fence surrounding the restricted [...]

Voter fraud in the November 2004 US elections?
Scarey stuff via Metafilter.
People come to the Australian electorate and want to use a digital voting system, we should shoot them. As we would any other despoiler of civilisation.

“So where the bloody hell are you?”
“Being eaten by this fucking drop bear, of course.”
I can think of some lovely images for that slogan. A pair of wetsuits floating in a very, very empty ocean. A set of footprints leading away from a campervan. Dragmarks alongside a sleeping crocodile.
And, of course, a [...]

Second Life is an online multiplayer game which is more simulation than combat. As Laputan Logic points out, an avatar has just conducted a three month impromptu experiment of changing her skin colour from black to white.
All the predictable stuff happened.
Wagner James Au, who recorded this sad tale, has a terrific First Monday [...]

From a lovely collection of historical photos of people with pit bull terriers, many of which seem to be designed to show that you can trust these animals with your children. This suggests they have been alarming to ordinary citizens for a long time.
When this photograph was taken, I imagine that fighting, hunting and [...]

Remember this, from the New Orleans aftermath?
That first response has solidified into the Common Grounds Clinic, which took over emergency care from the devastated and evacuated hospitals. This is the place in October:
“Common Ground has drawn an eclectic crew. Michael Kozart, the first doctor to spend substantial time at the clinic, belongs to a group [...]

Somewhere in Japan, an amusement park has been abandoned. Or will be abandoned. Or might not be, in another world, just a glance away.
Via goodshit.

In 1654, Rembrandt painted his wife as Bathsheba at her bath, just at the moment when she is summoned by King David to his bed, a moment of lust which would see her husband destroyed. Rembrandt refused to accept the conventional proportions of the human form, but luxuriated in a slightly romanticised documentary realism for which he was mocked.