The House of Substance

An interesting ratio of female vs. male students in architecture at one of the best institutions in Iran: In contrast to that, here are two...

Welcome Moving Goalposts: This one's less blocky but maybe too yellow: Hmm, it's cuter anyway...

There's a mild JanusNode update for the Mac. At Gnoetry Daily you can download some files that'll produce stuff like this: Brillia...

Rob Farley: As I suggested above, we are approaching a political and economic situation in which real reductions (depending, I suppose, on h...

Shorter Charles Jacobs: Why aren't Jews everywhere conspiring to raise kids who will defend Israel right or wrong? The article is except...

Via the reliably dense John J. Miller at The Corner we find a delightful bit of makework from people with too much time on their hands (PDF...

Dave Noon found a funny person: Cage fighter Alex Reid took things much further with his tips for health this year. Giving his fans advice ...

There's a newish museum in town, the Beaty Biological Diversity Museum. Let us explore, shall we? Here is a dead blue whale, scavenged...

Goodbye, easily-replaceable cog in an entertainment machine. In tribute, here is a song you may never have been in the studio for, plus co...

Gratuitous advertising: holy shit is Vij's a great place. Had the mushroom appetizer and the venison main, got to sample the yam appe...

Warner Todd Huston: It has gotten so bad in France that in some parts of its cities, those parts controlled by marauding gangs of Muslim you...

Daniel Foster wants you to know that the president will kill you: The stripping of the “death panels” from the final version of Obamacare w...

To placate the maternal unit I went out with her on Christmas Eve to Jazz Vespers. As church services go, it was better than most, and the j...

You probably saw this before I did: Now consider the genius of Basil Wolverton:

One of my RSS feeds is a feed for the Internet Archive, which I mostly don't click through to. It's interesting to see the items g...

Go read this. I am not sure how present I will be over the next while; maybe I'll be here more, maybe I'll be here less FEWER. In...

Shorter Washington Times: Know WHO ELSE took advantage of a lame-duck session? HUGO CHAVEZ. Also Hitler did bad stuff. And Mussolini.

News from one of the many places that pretends to be a kind of Hollywood: Six people have been injured in an explosion on the set of the fea...

Archie gets disappointed and Reggie’s an asshole again: When Archie Andrews and Reggie Mantle are opponents in the race for student body pr...

Not merely the love of one foodstuff but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated hunger; that was the force that would tear the Pa...