The House of Substance

Here shimmies the Frank Slide, which flattened a town, killing 90: or It's consoling to think that somewhere out there in the limitless...

Dan Gainor: Now that [Dave Weigel]’s at Slate, he’s also up to his old tricks, comparing opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque to the czars wh...

Telepathic Ed has increased his range of blog-post titles by a full 25%. The previous go-to titles: good talk (330 uses) gpod talk (One us...

Kids today get RGB! CMYK at the fancier places!

In the Southern Sudan: The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region's cities in the shape...

I dreamed last night that M. Bouffant had taken some kinda youth drug and wound up in high school. For some reason I was hanging around th...

Hey it's AWR Hawkins, Ph.D in military history! What military history has he to offer us today? On July 1, 2010, I wrote a post for Bi...

God bless the British press and all who fail on her: Fraudsters are posing as fisherman to con BP out of thousands of dollars in compensati...

Don't need no nursing home or nothing: While no weapon was produced, the 75-year-old told staff at a Prince George Bank of Nova Scotia t...

The New York Times translates for the common man: A University of Notre Dame anthropologist, Susan D. Blum, disturbed by the high rates of...

Since I now watch nearly no television I content myself with memories of it. Basketball Hall of Fame goings-on: The fact that Barkley and t...

Hey! Calling all artists, designers, and creatively inclined Corner fans! Can you produce an image that does justice to The Corner — that ca...

I really really enjoyed the Vegreville Country Fair's kid's exhibition section. More coming whether you like it or not.