The Olympics are nigh and everyone, it seems, is getting into the spirit, including public transportation. Czech artist David Cerny turned a London double-decker bus into a push-up fiend. No word as to whether or not steroids were involved, though it might make sense to look into the gas tank for any additives. Or, at the very least, an overdose of STP.   Read More >>

Cats: An endless source of LOLs, total oddballs, and now, invaluable protectors of priceless masterpieces. In a completely fascinating video segment featured on Artlog, CBC News talks to representatives of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, where 65 cats guard three million works of art from destructive rats and mice. The felines do their work in the museum's basement and are pampered by three full-time caretakers. Cats… Read More >>

One day after the announcement that Sally Ride, the first woman astronaut in space, had died, there was news about another pioneering flying woman: Amelia Earhart, who would be 115 today and who disappeared over the Pacific 75 years ago this month. If only the newsflash solved one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries of what happened to Earhart when her signal was… Read More >>

Beloved horror author H.P. Lovecraft wrote no fewer than 63 short stories between 1917 and 1935, and they're all available to ebook readers for the low, low price of $0. Blogger Cthulu Chick—named after the cosmic monster that's now Lovecraft's most famous creation—put together the collection in EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats, so devices from Nooks to Kindles (and… Read More >>

I hate to admit it but, yes, there was a time when I had a collection of fluffy pens and said "as if" at every possible chance I got. I also attempted to give friends makeovers and, when they resisted, helped them out pro bono while secretly referring to them as my "projects" in my personal journal. I digress. So I couldn't help but smile when a coworker… Read More >>

For thousands of years, our species has been guilty of giving more thought to lofty ideological conundrums than to the little everyday things. We spend more time pondering the meaning of life than trying to figure out the smartest way to tell our keys apart. We lose sleep over moral dilemmas, but we never pause to think: is there a more effective way to… Read More >>