UFOs in the sky over Richland, WA, in 1947, though one article points out the frequency of all sorts of stuff zinging through the air on the high winds.

Top excuses to not have to go to sleep right now: I’m thirsty. What happens after we die? Will you sit with me? You never sit with me. I’m too hot. I’m too cold. I miss (whoever is not here at the moment). I’m not tired (while rubbing eyes)

James Bond’s employer, the Secret Intelligence Service (a/k/a MI6) has joined other formerly unacknowledged organizations in going public on the web. Their web tree structure interests me: on the one hand, having no hierarchy to your web site does make it easier to avoid giving anything away about your organization’s hierarchy; but if you’re going […]

“We wanted something that was real war – Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head –but they said no.”

and more likely to make one respond to a fundraising letter: the University of Idaho president made it abundantly clear that evolution is the way to go.

From Hugo’s Spanish Simplified, a text I would estimate was published in the 1910s: “Teachers and students are hereby warned that any other book purporting to be Hugo’s Spanish System is nothing of the sort, but merely an imitation of the first edition, with just enough alterations to spoil the arrangement, and make the exercises […]

Want to know the latest on tropical cyclones? Sure, we all do! Visit the National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center for all kinds of useful info and graphics (including the lists of names—I hadn’t known there are only six lists).

There’s apparently a 14-month cycle of increasing tension and slippage in the neighborhood, where the Juan de Fuca and North American plates are colliding. Some geologists think the next megathrust quake will occur during a slippage event, one of which is happening right now.