…by clowns! White Flower! Tight Shower! Wife Power! (via Neatorama)

So this is one of those stories that I find funny but has no real point to it. One day, one of the guys at work came in with a red-and-pink plaid shirt. Everyone gave him crap for wearing a pink shirt. He’d got it at a western store in Missouri: the shirt cost $25,

It’s too late to tell Lee, “Happy Birthday.” His birthday was yesterday. However, I was feeling kind of yucky, so he let me take a nap and goof off all day. Today was his birthday supper. I must say, I entirely hold with the tradition of having a birthday supper. Or lunch. Or whatever. I

An excellent photo showing the spread from the pyramids of Giza to modern Cairo. (via Neatorama.)

Nazi mech attacks!!! (via Lee)

In Denver, 27 September.

A universe made out of the small bones inside your ear? An evolution of medusa jellyfish? A video of fractals with trance soundtrack. (via Neatorama)

I’ve been looking for something over the last few days. I didn’t know that I was looking for whatever it was, let alone what it was that I was looking for. And now I know I’ve found it, I still don’t know what it was. There’s this story by Theodore Sturgeon, The Dreaming Jewels, I

Verus Gnomicon: The Book of Knowing True Names. The reason, I think, science fiction is so bad at predicting the future is that it isn’t about the future so much as it is a commentary on the present, a commentary that uses ad absurdem as a technique. (Well, not really, but this is a ponder

One of the elephants looked like she’d lost a lot of weight. The old grandfather bull giraffe had died. He had so many knobblies on his head he looked like his horns had taken sprout, irregularly, almost down to his neck. A swirl of budgies (one of whom regaled me with a wolf whistle) has