This just In...

I will be departing Houston Weds for L.A., to interrupt my degree and work for a year.

Last one there is a republican.

This can't be real

C'mon, channel your inner 3rd-grader...

via fark

New 7 Wonders of the World

Feeling like the Gardens of Babylon are sooo ancient history? The Lighthouse of Alexandria? Boooring!

Help pick new Wonders of the World. You can also donate to help rebuild all the Buddha statues the bastard Taliban destroyed.

via kottke

Green eyed girl found

Nearly two decades after National Geographic first put the haunting picture of an eleven-year-old green-eyed Afghan girl on its cover making it the most recognised photograph in its 114-year-history, the magazine has located her again in remote Afghanistan.

Sharbat Gula is now 29, married with three children, and lives with her family. She was first photographed in December 1984 by Geographic's acclaimed lensman Steve McCurry, an old India hand, in Pakistan's Nasir Bagh refugee camp. Her penetrating green eyes and poignant gaze has long intrigued the world and the photograph became a metaphor for unwanted refugees, particularly since she was never seen again.

Simpsons: Map of Springfield

What's defines

a lake and a sea?

Geologically defined, lakes are temporary bodies of water.

[The] Aral Sea [was] a once-large saltwater lake straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. The shallow Aral Sea was formerly the world's fourth largest body of inland water.

Hmmm...so maybe if a lake sticks around long enough it gets promoted?