It is difficult to muster any sympathy whatsoever for the goddamned banks. This is a crisis entirely of their own manufacture. Yes, the housing market went down -- which anyone with an ounce of sense could have predicted, and did. Any bank betting the entirety of its assets many-times-over on that n...

The Vehicle Information Number (VIN) plate on cars is a clever way to communicate everything about a car in a simple, hard-to-duplicate format. Below, we show you how to decode any vehicle's 17-digit......

Here is your single's love horoscopefor Tuesday, February 24: You wake up feeling as if anything is possible -- and it is. Don't waste this awesome momentum. Instead, maximize it! Write down everything you want to accomplish before you die, and set out on a course of action. Make it real by sharing ...

I can’t tell if this is a PETA event, or a drag show? The tags on the pics assure me that this is, indeed, a PETA event held at a club called ‘Last Days of Decadence”. A PETA event with a liberal sprinkle of drag mixed in. They managed to tie it all together with the “Fur is...

Just when you think journalism from respected news organizations couldn’t sink any lower, the BBC (amongst many other news agencies) is reporting today that “Online networking ‘harms health:’” People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they...

Ponca City, We love you writes "Four decades ago, Boeing's predecessor 747 took to the skies over supervision State for a 75-minute flight that helped bring cheap airline travel to host of people and would remain the world's largest mercantile aircraft for 37 years until the advent of the double-dec...

in what sort of country do we reside where there's more public outrage over the exposure of a man's genetalia during the superbowl than we find over this bald partisan obstinacy toward the economic recovery plan? how have we come to a place where there's more coverage surrounding whether or not chri...

AN ARTHUR RIMBAUD DRIFT is a poetic walk following the London trail of Arthur Rimbaud and his fellow poet Paul Verlaine, who first visited the English capital - which they called Leun Deun - in September 1872. The route goes from Charing Cross Station, where the poets arrived, through French Soho, w...

Francisco de Zurbaran St Agatha 1630-33 - Oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier Agatha was born in Sicily, the daughter of rich and pious parents, who was consecrated to God as an infant. Agatha was a virtuous Christian woman known for her remarkable beauty. The Roman Senator Quintianus, who gover...

RTFA: http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/09/1… Roland Piquepaille - Mod Him Way Up, IMHO (Score:5, Interesting) by mfh (56) on Friday January 09, @02:09PM (#26390225) I liked his whit, and charming methods of describing things to the readers of this website. He truly embodied what c...