The History of April Fools Day

The BBC has a story up (well, since 1998) about the history of April Fools day, it starts of with the line:
Every year on April 1 the unwitting, the gullible and the plain stupid are caught out by tall stories or practical jokes. But why do people play these jokes at all?
But we will [...]

Interesting Images

Following up on both Joel’s post about oil and Eric’s post about Flocke I’ve got two things for you. Admittedly these items are only tangentially related to Joel & Eric’s posts, but as far as I am concerned they are close enough.
First up we’ve got images of Darvaza (The Burning Gates), Darvaza is a village [...]

UK Madness

Ok, first up we have this installation in Liverpool. the wall turns 360 degrees and looks like it does some odd angling along the way as well.
Following that we have the BBC news image of the day- it’s the UK Astute, a 7,000 ton nuclear submarine being wheeled through the streets of Cumbria. Wouldn’t [...]