Astrid Phillips Mayer

Via Iconoculture : "Japan-based Hime & Company gives its female employees under 24-years-old up to three days of “heartache leave” ...

Funny: The Nietzsche Family Circus Funnier: Strindberg + helium Funniest: garfield minus garfield Funniester: XKCD Funniestest: Hark! A Vagr...

For the first time in a while, I'm feeling thoroughly lucky.

With zero rhyme or reason: And this one is specially dedicated to my friend Matt :

A certain somebody has said that my blog would gain coolness points if I allowed anonymous comments. So, I am handing over the keys of the...

Happy first of October! Back when I lived in Chatham, NJ, I had a math teacher in seventh grade named Mrs. Licato who made a pretty big imp...

Before we discuss anything about Victorian architecture, we need to review Queen Victoria herself. According to Wikipedia : Full name: Alex...

Okay, now that I've cleaned out my months-collected links, I've now decided to do (kinda) weekly links. Here they are, in all their...

Thank goodness for Fritz Kahn and the British Library Online, whoo! I love body-as-machine art, especially if there are mini-people scurry...

Did you know that June is International Accordion Awareness Month, Turkey Lovers Month, Learn French Month, National Aphasia Awareness Month...

Hooray, it's time for some more fabulous media randomness! This is sheer genius, and I can't stop watching it over and over. It...

For those of you who've been living in a cave up until now, the 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensiv...

I saw the headline Uribe sworn in amid high security , and I read "Uribe" as "Oribe." This gave me a good half minute ...

That above headline is taken from an actual Educational Filmstrip from the Sixties, by the way. So, anyway, today is Fun With Archival Foota...

So I was at Washington Mutual today, waiting in line to deposit a check, when I realized how Christmas-saturated the place was. The railing...