World’s Strangest

Winston in southern Oregon is where many tourists stop on their journeys north and south along Interstate 5; it’s where Wildlife Safari is. Recently the park acquired some help in the form of Wylie Malek, an autistic young boy people are calling a “natural elephant man.” It seems he’s bonded with the gentle giants, and [...]

The Art of Manliness blog has an excellent post turning the wits of Winston Churchill into stylish motivational posters. I’d like to see Brett and Kate McKay of AoM Blog turn these favorite Churchill quotes of mine into a poster: Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk. Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I [...]

carrier pigeon painting by Christina Lovering Who’s faster at transferring data: a carrier pigeon or an internet service provider in South Africa? In an experiment arranged by a frustrated IT company, an 11-month-old carrier pigeon named Winston delivered data 25 percent faster than South Africa’s leading internet service provider, named Telkom. Winston, with a data card strapped to [...]