Take a few minutes out of your day and spend it with this audio tape of Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th President, while he orders a few pairs of trousers from the Haggar company in Dallas.

This is precisely what the internet was invented for.

This is one of those down-the-rabbit-hole explanations like the ones that make Feynman’s books so interesting to read.

Here are the two most shattering facts about North Korea. First, when viewed by satellite photography at night, it is an area of unrelieved darkness. Barely a scintilla of light is visible even in the capital city. (See this famous photograph.) Second, a North Korean is on average six inches shorter than a South Korean. You may care to imagine how much surplus value has been wrung out of such a slave, and for how long, in order to feed and sustain the militarized crime family that completely owns both the country and its people.

North Korea continues to be both fascinating and horrifying.

Not everything needs a 15-megapixel lens stuck on the back, like a little glass anus.

Still recovering from broken trust, neither wanted to be the first to try the eggs.

My new favorite blog.

A new entry on the list of coolest jobs ever.

The 9,000-student K-8 district this week pulled all copies of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary after an Oak Meadows Elementary School parent complained about a child stumbling across definitions for “oral sex.

I’m pretty sure there’s a word for this.

Oh, right. There it is.

Totally unrelated to the post as a whole but this t-shirt is full of nerd awesome.

A non-explosive device that emits a ticking sound was what caused the Lindbergh Center station to close Thursday night, a MARTA spokesman told ajc.com Friday.