Everything has an official website these days so I shouldn’t be surprised that Pompeii has one too but for some reason I never thought to look for it. Check out the Google Street Views of Pompeii.

For about three years in the 90′s there was a rather good commercial classical radio station in Tulsa. It was one of the main things that helped me get into classical music – that is, really getting into it as opposed to liking it a lot but not knowing what to listen to beyond Beethoven [...]

“Off with their heads!” she decries so consistently that she makes the Queen of Hearts look benevolent. — here Well, consider this my chip at the monolith. I’m waaaaay down here, at the base of this massive statue made of some indestructible stone brought to earth by Cthulhu mined from the extradimensional temple beneath the [...]

This is a wee bit scary. Those photos look like stills from a low budget slasher movie. I agree about “Hesitant Turners” and not just at lights. What I hate the most is when I’m driving through the nearby small town, where the speed limit is 35 MPH, and the person in front of me [...]

Another competitor for the title of coolest URL ever. (… though I have to confess, I still have a soft spot for Bighairyspiders.com) Found, indirectly, via Twitter.

10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Living in Space – Actually, I did know most of these. I didn’t know #3. I had never thought about #8. That’s funny but I guess it sort of makes sense. 10 of the Strangest McDonald’s Meals – None of these are all that strange and I would try [...]

Heard on a commercial for NBC’s prime time coverage of the Winter Olympics: “a perfect storm of stars and skis”

Many people find them creepy; I find them fascinating – Insect macro photographs. (There are a couple of arachnids in there too.) So colorful and interesting!

I feel much better today. Still not quite right. I’m trying to decide if I want to go to town or not. We’re running out of a few critical things. We’ve been out of coffee creamer for days, almost out of Tang, almost out of hot chocolate mix, and we’ve also been out of Hot [...]

Still confused by curling? Curling Basics explains what’s going on with animated examples. By the way, San Francisco 49′ers tight end Vernon Davis is a big fan of curling and is honorary captain of the US curling team.

Sunday evening I was suddenly hit with the flu bug. I felt fine all day then within no more than an hour I went from feeling fine to feeling really, really bad. So yesterday evening after my husband got home from work we went to the local Urgent Care center. Horrible, horrible experience. We must [...]

This is good! Now someone needs to write, Satellite Blues. Not as tragic as Dial-Up Blues but damned annoying at times. via

What kind of sick world is it where you can cry but you can’t laugh? — here (in the comments (Unfortunately, many of the other comments are NSFW) ) Today, in London, it was the first first day of spring. … The sky was cloudless, the temperature temperate. Tomorrow, it will almost certainly go back [...]

For my regular Friday video I wanted to post something to honor the Olympics but right off I couldn’t think of any Canadian classical composers nor any classical music related to sports so I chose this. One of the figure skaters used a part of it for his short program. I’ve never been a big [...]

This is going to sound like a teenage fangirl swooning over some pop star but there is no mature way to express this so here goes: OMG! Neal Asher posted a comment on my blog!!!. I answered the question via email. I am enjoying Prador Moon. I’m a little embarrassed to have to admit that [...]

I have seen this in several places but I’m linking to this particular Geek Barbie post because Dr. B has paired the viral photo of Barbie the Compter Engineer with a photo of “the real ladygeek role model.” And I have to agree with that. I’ve always thought she’s too perky to be a real [...]

I have been fascinated with curling ever since I first saw it in the 2002 Olympics. At first it was a “What the hell? kind of fascination but that soon morphed into a more ordinary kind of sports fascination. Number Two Son watched it with me back in 2002 (His schedule is different now and [...]

This Butterbeer Tea (thanks Fillyjonk) is very tempting, as are some of their other teas, including my zodiac tea although that’s slightly disappointing. I’m not into zodiacs but still, it would be fun if my zodiac tea was something “perfect” for me and I’m not sure what that would be but this one sounds just [...]

Darn. In order to make this brief and trivial observation I have to reveal the shameful fact that I was watching Star Trek reruns instead of the Olympics last night. I love the Winter Olympics and normally watch as much of it as I can but last night there were three episodes of ST:TNG on [...]

15 Digital Artists – These are fantastic. I had to laugh at Tiago Hoisel’s 3-D Mr. Burns. Mark Verhaagen’s work is charming and colorful. Paul Davey is very interesting. I like Mathieu Leyssenne’s illustrations and, of course, I go for the steampunky weirdness of Kazuhiko Nakamura. By the way, I really wish the Web Urbanist [...]

10 Castles Built for Love – There are tragedies associated with most of these “love castles” and the lovers never got to live in them together. Much as I would like to have my own castle, this makes me think that castles might be bad luck and that makes me a little big angry as [...]

For the guys: Research indicates that driving a Porsche might actually make you more virile. (as opposed to just thinking you are) Of course this was just one study and you know how that goes but if it helps fuel your fantasies, go for it.

Fritinancy – a blog about the quirks of the English language, one of my favorite topics Goodmachine – a blog about web culture Causes of Color – a lovely site about the science of color; much of it is rather elementary – i.e. stuff you should have learned in elementary school – but it is [...]

Snow – For my friends here in the south. We can look at these photos and think, “At least I’m not there!” More retro future – This one has some especially awesome images. Freudian Slippers – Hah! 20 Weirdest Apartment Buildings – I’ve seen some of these before. Many of them are just ugly but [...]

13 Coolest Pools in the World – Actually right now a warm pool would be more the thing but I’m trying to imagine the kind of day when these would be inviting. Trying… trying… no. My warm day imaginer is frozen. Anyway, there are some very unique and interesting swimming pools.