Wes Phillips

Bookmine book store has posted a list of stupid customer queries that sounds strangely familiar. When I used to work at Tower Classical, I received variations on these, ranging from "Do you have Taco Belle's Canon—with real cannon?" to "Do you have any records Mozart recorded before he died?"

Joan C. Gratz's seven minute animated, um, trip through art—from La Gioconda to Chuck Close. It's 2D claymation from 1992, but it was new to me.

I tend not to link to the NYT because I think their paid-portal policy on their name pundits is dumb—essentially removing them from the public discourse. Then again, considering what many of those "names" write, they may have done the public a favor there.

Dragonflies migrate. Who knew?

God help me, I knew all four of the factoids that open the article.

Han van Meegeren faced a quandary: To prove his innocence and escape the death penalty, he'd have to confess to crimes that had netted him $60 million.

When calculation was done factory style.