Who is the highest ranking Penguin in the world? Answer. Now you know.

If you follow the news you know that one of the promises that Democrats made when they took over Congress was to clean up the corruption that has made us all so cynical about our legislators. They were lying of course, they love the corruption as much as the Republicans do because it makes them [...]

I have been really pleased with Amazon’s music download sales, they give you very high quality MP3 files with no restrictions on what you can do with the files built into the files. Their selection is good, they have just added Warner Brothers to the line up and while they don’t have all the small [...]

Just a reminder that time is running out on 2007′s internet memes so enjoy your pirates vs ninjas and lolcats fro the next few days because it will be time to move on soon. Wondermark has given us a head start on this and there is a Flickr site for the bears in ill fitting [...]

I know not everyone celebrates Boxing Day but I want to wish everyone a happy Boxing Day never the less. I have lots of Boxing Day memories, from the first time I came across it on a calendar and wondered, ‘what the heck is that about?’ to building my first celebratory Box Castle to watching [...]

2007 was a very good year for music for me with a wide variety of artists putting out albums I really like. One of these was killed on the radio but I don’t listen to the radio so I still enjoy it. Most of these are fairly obscure and only a couple mark me as [...]

Which D & D Character Am I (Take 2 the quiz at Take One is gone now.): I Am A: Neutral Good Human Fighter/Sorcerer (3rd/3rd Level)

Animals not allowed to have sex in town. Humans must be minerals or vegetables then. Who knew? via Boing Boing

So I was reading Tony Long’s complaints about holiday excess in Wired and I had to pause and ask myself “Self, why don’t you hate Christmas?”

This story on the BBC about Medieval diet is one of my favorite story types, a nanny lecture that completely misses the point. The medieval diet and exercise regime was what it was because they had no choice about it at all. They lived hard, short lives because their society didn’t support enough excess capacity [...]