Because sometimes the appropriate response to the world is underground cabaret.

LiveJournal users are already familiar with Snap Shots, the little preview balloons that pop up when you hover over a link. I kind of like this feature, even if it is ad-driven. I have just installed it on my main blog site. One nice thing about it is that part of the ad revenues go [...]

As it dawns on people that we are never, ever going back to the era of cheap gasoline, I predict we’ll be seeing more of these early electric cars around. Not quite as curvy as a SmartCar, but you can’t beat it for personality:

Best quote: “Makes you wonder which is the dinosaur, the 27-year-old electric [...]

As it dawns on people that we are never, ever going back to the era of cheap gasoline, I predict we’ll be seeing more of these early electric cars around. Not quite as curvy as a SmartCar, but you can’t beat it for personality:

Best quote: “Makes you wonder which is the dinosaur, the 27-year-old electric [...]

Smell and memory, they say, are bound up tightly together. So why is there no museum devoted to the smells of the past? What better way to immerse ourselves in the life of past times than to recreate the sharp tang of bathtub gin or heavy perfumes masking the putrefaction of the Black Death?
Thinking about, [...]