Archie McPhee is selling original unicorn oil paintings by Ramirez. (David must be sad that he didn't get the Bigfoot UFO painting when it was available) In his tireless pursuit… Read the rest of the article: Original unicorn oil paintings $100 each

W. Kelley Lucas was my first friend who made it as a "professional" artist. When I lived in Miami, Florida in the early 1990s, Kelley and I hung out all… Read the rest of the article: Kelley Lucas: first new paintings in six years

The gentleman was arrested in a Fresno, California casino after he placed a bet with marijuana in a card game. He was arrested, even though he produced a "cannabis club"… Read the rest of the article: Man places casino bet with marijuana

Mugabe should just print trillion dollar bills and sell them directly on eBay. This $100,000,000,000 note is up to AU$87 with eleven bids. Zimbabwe Banknotes on eBay

The Antikythera Mechanism is a two-thousand year-old clock made in Greece that was discovered a century ago in a shipwreck. Two years ago, scientists studying the bits and pieces that… Read the rest of the article: Ancient clock displays Olympic calendar and astronomical cycles

The items show here are, according to the TSA web site, an "empty metal bottle and a home-made battery pack, consisting of 28 rechargeable batteries connected by multiple resistors and… Read the rest of the article: TSA proud of confiscating non-dangerous items

Russ Kick's Memory Hole is back with a special treat for fans of government intelligence agency arcana: Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting… Read the rest of the article: Memory Hole obtains over 400 forms used by the NSA

These Angry Youth Comix dolls, modeled exactly from the characters in Johnny Ryan's comic of the same name, would make a welcome addition to any rejuvenile's curio shelf. The Toxic… Read the rest of the article: Angry Youth Comix dolls available

MIT mathematicians have learned more about how insects breathe underwater by trapping a layer of air around their bodies. The scientists determined that insects can dive as deep as 30… Read the rest of the article: How insects breathe underwater

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman had a backroom tour of the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta where he perused a natural history collection of nearly 70,000 items donated by a generous… Read the rest of the article: Secrets of the Royal Alberta Museum

Wal-mart stores are depicted as disease-green blobs in this neat animation of the retail giant's spread across the US. Nathan says: "This is similar to the Walmart infection video you… Read the rest of the article: Cool animation of Wal-Mart's spread across US

Mark Statford says: Justin Parpan and Josh Parpan run a little store called Goblin Fish Press that's chock full of great kids toys, prints and shirts. All with a sort… Read the rest of the article: Monster toys, prints, and shirts from Goblin-Fish Press

This giant tree in Limpopo, South Africa is home to a tavern, the Big Baobab Pub. The 6,000-year-old baobab tree, on Sunland Farm, has a 155 foot circumference and walls… Read the rest of the article: Bar in a tree

Avi Solomon says: "Peter Ward, paleontologist, dives at night to meet the Nautilus, a wondrous creature which has survived for 500 million years." Peter Ward dives to meet a wild… Read the rest of the article: Peter Ward dives to meet a wild Nautilus

Brett Burton says: "Police in Ozark, MO tasered a 16-year-old boy after he fell 30 feet from a bridge. Officers said he refused to comply with them and they had… Read the rest of the article: Parents question why Ozark police used stun gun on kid with broken back

It's hard to argue with Todd Lappin's Cardinal Rule of Elemental Photography: Photos always turn out much better when you have a camera on hand to take the picture. No… Read the rest of the article: Todd Lappin's Quinceañera ceremony photos

The Orwell Prize will mark the 70th anniversary of the Orwell Diaries by serializing them, one day at a time, on a blog — reminiscent of the way that Phil… Read the rest of the article: Orwell's diaries in blog form

Watch this episode in Flash above, or download here: MP4 link In episode 2 of our new BBtv WORLD series, Xeni reports in from a K'iche Maya village in the… Read the rest of the article: BBtv WORLD: Migration, and a Mayan Sweat Bath. (Guatemala)

McSweeney's Short imagined monologues presents, "Mom, Dad, I'm Into Steampunk" by Marco Kaye. No, I won't take off my topcoat. And that's exactly my point. I understand your confusion. The… Read the rest of the article: Mom, Dad, I'm into Steampunk: an imaginary monologue

A new Rand Corporation report comprehensively surveys the ways that terrorist groups have been disbanded in the past: "Military force was rarely the primary reason a terrorist group ended." Instead,… Read the rest of the article: To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation