Sculpting with Horseshoes...

Sculptor Tom Hill of Hertfordshire, England is a 26 year old self-taught sculptor who works with recycled horseshoes to make his art.  Example below, much more on his site...

Fraud in Russian Elections...

I'm sure you've heard the news reports concerning the allegations of election fraud in the recent Russian elections.  Here Finnish blogger “Anton” does some statistical analysis that strongly indicates two things:

1.  The elections were indeed fraudulent.

2.  The party that benefited from the fraud was United Russia (Putin's party).

The Rain is on the Way...

Did a quick weather check this morning: barometric pressure is falling fast, humidity is climbing, it drizzled off-and-on last night, and the radar shows squalls approaching (fast!) from the ocean.  It shouldn't be more than a couple of hours before we're being drenched...