For unclear reasons, it’s become hip this year in garden design circles to plant a mini decorative farm in front of million dollar houses in exclusive neighborhoods, a giant pumpkin, some sunflowers, maybe a gourd. Whatever the reason, there’s really only one thing to do with those giant pumpkins and it’s best to do it [...]

To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a tropical peat bog.  So I suppose that if you are a community with a peat bog that is no longer considered ideal for human sacrifice or worthy competition for central heating you might try to come up with some novel way to [...]

Think of it as a more earth-bound X Project. The goal is for a human-powered flying machine to go more than 100 meters off the designated English pier for a reward of 30,000 pounds.  They’ve been trying since the competition’s inception in 1971 and now there’s a mascot, 3 classes of entry (2 serious and [...]

I guess ‘people that look like their pets’ is now passe.  It’s now all about styling to look like your favorite Muppet.  And the comments to that post prove that Sam the Eagle really does have an odd sort of sex appeal. Also in the news: Beaker’s rendition of Ode to Joy (below) has been [...]