The Shagged Sheep...

The Shagged Sheep...  Mark Steyn employs underage sex and ovine bestiality to defend someone he admired – the late Oriana Fallaci – and himself from all sorts of specious accusations.  Hilarity ensues.  This is classic Steyn, so you'll want to put down your morning beverage before diving in...

Principal air routes, in 1920...

Principal air routes, in 1920...  Click to embiggen, or to get a hi-res version.

I found several things of interest on here.  The political geography has a number of changes from current times: today's Sri Lanka was then Ceylon, the Middle East is almost entirely different, etc.  The small number of routes is of course striking.  Also interesting to see was the prominence of islands on the trans-oceanic routes: Fiji, Mauritius, the Azores, Hawai'i, etc. all played key roles as refueling stops, because the aircraft of the day couldn't make it across the longer stretches of ocean on one tank...

NGC6543...

NGC6543 ... aka the “Cat’s Eye” nebula.  This is a false color image, designed to show all the halo's structural detail, which is ordinarily quite hard to see.  Via APOD, of course...

Amazon's best, bracketed by price...

Amazon's best, bracketed by price...  A new search engine pores over Amazon's listings, looking for the best products meeting your search terms, in each of several price brackets.  I tried about ten different things (some of which I'm actually looking for), and got good results on all of them...

Sure sounds good to me!

Sure sounds good to me!  In Search of Gladstonian Republicans...