The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

In Manhattan, the ' Occupy Wall Street ' protests continue to protest against whatever the hell it is that they're protesting ag...

Australia continues its lamentable decline as yet another country where the delicate feelings of designated victim groups trump freedom of s...

Over at Reddit is this frightening post where this parent describes the problems he's having with his 17 year old child. Our oldest ha...

Pity us Beside the sea On the sands So briefly According to the obituary for him in The Economist, he wrote this poem on the sands of an...

There’s nothing worse than being at the mercy of a poorly designed algorithm. You’ll be sitting there, knowing that if you were just given h...

If I had to give an award for the most understated but profound song written in the last decade, it would be hard to beat ‘End of the Movie’...

You can check out any time you like, but you can't leave until the IRS says so. The Globe and Mail reports a story about the situatio...

Wired magazine has a very interesting piece about how a larger number of modern FDA clinical trials of new drugs are failing against the pl...

From Boston.com , comes this absurd story from Italy: Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for...

Weight loss products are addicted to before-and-after testimonials. They show some fat, unhappy person, then, after only 8 weeks, miracul...

From the WSJ "The Wealthiest 5% Grabbed  Created Most of the [sic] America’s Gains" There, fixed it for you.

( image credit ) So it turns out that Scarlett Johansson is the latest celebrity to have nude photos of her leaked onto the internet. (A ...

The worst mistakes are those that you don't even realise you're making. I happened to learn about a bunch of them when I came acro...

"Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy." ...

The Uber Blog has this hilarious post on prostitution arrest data : Apparently prostitution arrests in San Francisco go up on Wednesdays. ...

Theodore Dalrymple has an interesting insight into the actions of Muslim clergy in US prisons converting prisoners to Islam: [Interviewer...

Via Hector Lopez: An unfortunate web address: http://www.fapco.ae/profile.html (If you didn't get the reference, it's here  ) ...

TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency No kidding! Let's hear from  Representative John Mica (R -Fl.),  about the litany of f...

Out of the people who arrive at this site by searching for 'Shylock Holmes', how many of them are looking for me, and how many just ...

I was driving behind a Nissan Leaf, the fancy new electric only car. On the back, the badge said 'Zero Emissions'. Man, talk about...

Over at Ace of Spades, CAC posts a moving piece about the Falling Man September 11, 2001 seems like a very long time ago. The world move...

I remember reading Bob Dylan's autobiography a few years ago. At one point, he described what it was like to move to an isolated place i...

From the excellent 'The House Wins', by OK GO, a wonderful metaphor for the strong form of the No Free Lunches principle * : Ice a...

Over at Popehat, Ken documents the latest in egregious TSA antics - a TSA employee who jammed her fingers four times into a crying woman&#...

John Harsanyi was one of the founding fathers of Game Theory , a fascinating part of economic theory that examines how agents make strategic...

From The Dogg: [Y]ou can’t become a vegan, all the vegans I’ve ever met are angry. I’m not sure if that’s because they’re weird or just pe...

Ha!

Over at  Paco Enterprises , Paco has an  interesting post on Solyndra , the glorious new bankrupt solar energy company that managed to finag...

Every now and then, I'm struck by a company where my overwhelming response is 'Damn, I can't believe they're selling things ...

If you're anything like me, you've been getting a large proliferation of spam emails containing (presumably infected) word attachmen...

Sometimes it seems odd how comparatively safe driving is. When you're barrelling along the freeway at 65 miles an hour, you don't a...

Ha!

Over the years, I've increasingly come to the conclusion that the advice to 'try harder' is largely useless. If you, like me, ...

"Boy throws rocks at cars, gets hit by crossbow" Ha! "The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper says his injuries are not life...