So Much Cooking

Carole’s Roast Chicken This is a food blog, not a disease blog, but of course the rumors all over about bird flu are making me nervous. I don’t know about…

Wind

Once upon a time, there were two young girls, closer than sisters, who dreamed of greatness. When they played together (as they did every day), Gytha always pretended to be…

Bits

So here is something a lot of people don’t realize: most companies that make sex toys are really small. Even a successful sex-toy manufacturer like Squishies (tm) is still run…

long narrow cracks in your mattress

The Egg Story

by Andy Weir Animated by Kurzgesagt

A warning light suddenly appears on your dashboard

The Serpent Sword

Mental Diplopia

There seems to be a strange new disease spreading around the world. People are getting stuck in the past in mostly happy memories. They are straddling the line between now…

Cat Pictures Please

I don’t want to be evil. I want to be helpful. But knowing the optimal way to be helpful can be very complicated.

The shadows that rush past : a collection of frightening Inuit folktales

Enjoy some of the creepiest, scariest stories from Inuit mythology. These tales are filled with childstealing ogresses; half man, half grizzly bear monsters; ice-covered polar bears ten times the size…