International Mustache Month

Let it be known that I, Chris Radcliff, will refrain from shaving my beard for the entire month of February 2008. Why, you may ask? For the challenge: The idea is simple: grow your beard throughout February, then shave back to a glorious mustache for a gala beer party at the end of the month. [...]

the human calendar: just plain cute

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mirrors and moonbeams

Is anyone interested in a road trip to Arizona for some moonshine? No, not that kind of moonshine. I’m talking about moonlight reflected off a five-story mirror array in the desert near Tuscon. A Tucson-based inventor and businessman Richard Chapin and his wife Monica are behind the giant device, which gathers up and focuses the [...]

our own government admits that Iran isn’t developing nuclear weapons

This just in from some crazy left-wing blogger making up stories: In a stunning reversal of Bush administration conventional wisdom, a new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies concludes Iran shelved it’s nuclear weapons program over four years ago. “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program,” reads a [...]

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock

Now that’s what secret groups of talented artists and technicians should be doing! According to a Guardian article, a “cultural guerilla” group called Untergunther was recently cleared of charges related to breaking into a Paris monument and fixing its antique clock: For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security [...]