brilliant mistake

2009

December 33
November 34
October 32
September 26
August 10
July 16
June 15
May 13
April 14
March 15
February 23
January 9

2008

December 39
November 38
October 28
September 40
August 24
July 34
June 22
May 28
April 50
March 15
February
January
“A “typographical error” resulted in the recall...”
— Now I am very curious about...
Oct 28th
Jackie Robinson, age 10, batboy for the 1929 Pasadena...
Oct 26th
Warch Watch
Real PSA for LAPD’s new iWatch program.  It’s like a neighborhood watch, but creepier. ...
Oct 26th
“Someone to whom I recently showed my glass beehive, with its...”
— Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández...
Oct 26th
“Let’s say someone says, out of the blue,...”
— How to Have a Witty...
Oct 26th
Warch Watch
“Marriage isn’t a used tissue you can just throw away; you have to sleep with that...
Oct 25th
“But to talk about burritos is to charge down a road lined...”
— Los Angeles Eat+Drink - What...
Oct 23rd
“Do you really think Frank Sinatra lived to be 84 years old?...”
— “i GOTTA FART”...
Oct 22nd
One of the original croquet set models housed at the Royal...
Oct 22nd
August Hofmann plundered his croquet set to illustrate the...
Oct 22nd
“Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton says the...
Oct 21st
“When you look down at the ground, it’s like...
Oct 18th
“He consummated his flirtations with the dolphin. ‘It...”
— It’s always hard to...
Oct 18th
If only someone had taken the time to write this article for...
Oct 18th

Web M.D.?

Catastrophe has struck the New Shelton Wet/Dry. It’s back up in rough form with a new address,...
Oct 18th
“A youthful error? Yes, perhaps. But he’s been...”
— What Whoopi Goldberg...
Oct 16th
Bizarre Police Sketches (via the most excellent New Shelton...
Oct 16th
Viktor and Rolf
Oct 10th
Chaitén, a closer view.
Oct 10th
Chaitén. Still explodey. The sad, grey patch in the lower...
Oct 10th
OK, this is my last post with the momentary diatom-arranging...
Oct 10th
Johann Diedrich Moller, Arranged Diatoms, c1869
Oct 10th
“Making a rather simple arranged diatom slide is actually not...”
—  Homemade micromanipulator...
Oct 9th
A diatom bicycle! I am clearly getting no work done today.
Oct 9th
American flag constructed of diatoms. How did I not know...
Oct 9th
Matthias Burba, Antique Microscope Slide Featuring Arranged...
Oct 9th
Arlene Wechezak, Algae and Diatoms , 2009* *nitpick:...
Oct 9th
Bruno Vellutini, Oral Surface of Young Sea Star, 2009
Oct 9th
“By all appearances, Rebecca Kuzelka used her home to operate...”
— Chemistry and biology?...
Oct 9th
Levi Van Veluw
Oct 8th

College Rankings

As I sit working & watching the UCLA-Stanford game (it’s not going well), it seems a good...
Oct 4th
wargames
Oct 2nd