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Seems an awful waste: Out-of-towners are traveling to New York City with the specific aim of killing themselves in a phenomenon researchers are calling "suicide tourism," a Manhattan public health expert reported Monday. Just as people travel to specific cities for sightseeing or to remote regions of the world for complex, but low-cost surgeries, others are seeing New York City … Read More

Some questions just can’t be answered: So, last night, we’re up in her bed, I’m reading A Bunny for All Seasons to her. She says to me, "Daddy, how do you know that when you shut the book the pictures don’t move all around and run around when you shut the book?" …"Do you want the long answer or the … Read More

I didn’t see the Patriots-Colts game this weekend, but aside from it not being a Patriots blowout, there was another strange anomoly. Check out this YouTube video, and in particular the noise of the crowd: What’s that about?  This: In the past, teams that have visited the RCA Dome have questioned whether the Colts pipe in artificial crowd noise in … Read More

From Mental Floss: 10. Ken: By Request OnlyI can assure you, Ken, we have only one request. 9. Something Special from JeffPoor Jeff looks like death warmed over, from his Herman Munster tan to that funeral director suit. I just hope the “something special” he’s got for us doesn’t involve that hook. (Or perhaps that’s his instrument. After all, Radiohead … Read More

Those who can count, and those who can’t.

US Seeks to Remove Pirates From Ships Aye, matey!  But not without a hearty fight, arrrrrr….. Man with beer takes hearse to go fishing "Drunk man" maybe?  The whole "with beer" thing throws me…. Police seek Nebraska teacher, 25, and 13-year-old boy Yup.  Another naughty (female) schoolteacher. ‘Goat sucker’ actually a hairless coyote Either way, I don’t really want to … Read More

From Frank Ferri: Destroy my driveway with a jackhammer. (I sleep through anything.) Excavate 9 to 11 inches deep. Install brick pavers, arranged in any pattern, but preferably with a dramatic circle of stones in the middle. Hilarious! Carefully sneak around back. I’ll leave the light on so you can see. Situate fine-grained teak furniture—eight chairs and an oversize table—on … Read More

Driving down Robinhood Road.  Early morning frost.  Coming over a hill, I saw a lot of cars pulled over to the side of the road.  I slowed down and rubbernecked.  All eyes were gazing out to the field.  I grabbed my camera and filmed this: There were a couple more in the field, too.  As well as a couple of … Read More

That terrible fire that killed the college students becomes easier to understand when you see this compilation of videos. You would think that college kids would know better than to play with matches and set things on fire within the residence halls. You would think….

The State of Texas generates too many reports. Various state agencies and commissions are required by law to write monthly, quarterly, and/or yearly reports.  A LOT of paperwork apparently, especially when you consider that some reports are obsolete (For example, there are still report requirements for the Human Rights Commission, which the Legislature abolished in 2003). The preparation and storage … Read More

For Halloween, the first screen adaptation of "Frankenstein": Running about 12 minutes, it was made by the Thomas Edison Film Company in 1910.  It was believed to have been lost by fire in 1914, until an archival copy was re-discovered in the 1970’s. No, it’s not very good.  Frankenstein’s monstor looks like a reject from Cats.