vintage Neat vintage collage spells 'Merry Christmas' with matchbooks Rusty Blazenhoff

Tom The Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug – News of the Times: Another U.S. School Hit by Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Ruben Bolling

Galapagos The informal post office in the middle of the ocean Natalie Dressed

fun "This site will self-destruct" finally self-destructs after no-one signs guestbook for 24 hours Rob Beschizza

Alan Turing Interactive web toy transforms Turing's morphogenesis theory into digital art Mark Frauenfelder

florida Florida man and spouse arrested for stealing endangered Galapagos tortoises and rare comic books David Pescovitz

whales Giant whale sinks 44-foot boat, sailors rescued David Pescovitz

chiang mai 500-year-old Buddhist pagoda in Thailand collapses after rain, revealing hidden treasures (video) Carla Sinclair

drugs Authorities seize hummus bowls molded from crushed amphetamine tablets David Pescovitz

animals This is the first known albino baby Giant Galapagos Tortoise observed by humans Thom Dunn

animals Watch a bold sea lion take a dip at a resort pool and boot another guest out of his lounge chair David Pescovitz

Beautiful Creatures The Red-lipped batfish is dolled up and ready to go Popkin

horology How building a working Antikythera Mechanism might have uncovered an unknown lunar calendar Gareth Branwyn

Boing Boing Gadgets Get early Black Friday savings on dashboard and backup cams that will help keep you safe on the road Boing Boing's Shop

catholic church Catholic Priest arrested after filming sex tape on altar with dominatrices Thom Dunn

conservation Diego and other giant tortoises head to home island after saving their species Andrea James

futility closet Two settlers disappeared from a small Eastern Pacific island in 1934 Futility Closet

NASA Quarantine survival advice from Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts Thom Dunn

Science Watch crane collapse onto boat, causing a terrible oil spill in the Galapagos Islands David Pescovitz