I found myself applauding at the end of this and was transported to my childhood as I never missed any of the 13 episodes of Cosmos. This mash-up is amazing and gave me special geek-tingles. Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking in "A Glorious Dawn": ...

An adventure through the countryside.Words spoken in kind tones,Words that spear our very being.Sharing, not trying to convince, sharing.Fields, Mountains, streams, the colors!... That's old man Johnson's place.An adventure through the countryside...

From the twisted minds of the folks at PES comes another wonderful bent-perspective video. This one won the Audience Award at the Annecy Animation Festival.It really brightened my mood this morning. I hope it does the same for you.

This guy picked a tough costume to wear for an entire evening, but he came prepared.Notice the straw in his beer. I was going to write a poem to accompany this photo I took at a holiday party, but I really don't feel like exploring my darker side...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan's government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday.