Little Australia

The secret to successful blogging is to only post rippingly good stuff that immediately grabs people and makes them want to see more. And ...

Wow. This is something to see on any day, but it's spectacular right now - with Cyclone Pam churning over the South Pacific: Go h...

I've made a video showing a trick I came up with (although I'm very sure it's been done before) to remove a stubborn screwtop. N...

I have not posted on this outer planetoid of the intertubes for four months. Now, I must post. Behold:

Term: Couch Shadow Definition: A geographical feature of the common home, describing an area of floor behind the slanted back of a cou...

The New York Times' The Upshot published a cool map back in June, showing by color code where in the U.S. it's the relatively easie...

Came across this November 1962 interview in the now defunct The Realist by Paul Krassner , primarily about Heller's 1961-released  C...

Holy gods, this place :  As Don Driscoll returned from a snow trip in Kosciuszko National Park this winter, he was confronted with...

You don't get to succeed at the game of rolling out wholly invented, manufactured, international super-celebrities along the lines of Ju...

An old friend just time-machined me, sending me a fragment from a time long ago: Annabels was a legendary place in Athens, a fairly ru...