Land: A Concise History of Civilization

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 8:11 AM EDT (axesandalleys.com)

Human history comes down to one thing: land. You might yammer on about "no blood for oil" or argue about the Assyrians being a tribute state, but then you'd be a dumbass to do so.

history, land, civilization, jeremy-rosen

A Guide to Transvestism

Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:29 PM EDT (axesandalleys.com)

Faith Mussolini, your beautiful host, explores the benefits of the tranny train.

fashion, video, comedy, transvestite, little-britain, faith-da-brooke, transvestism

A Guide to Monkeys

Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2007 7:53 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Noted poet H.G. Peterson reads one of his most popular poems.

video, monkey, poet, arts, monkeys, poetry, axesandalleys, hgpeterson

Peanuts

Seeded on Mon Mar 5, 2007 8:27 PM EST (axesandalleys.com)

A hilarious unaired commercial for peanuts.

ad, ads, odd-news, commercial, peanuts, unaired-commercial, axesandalleys

Fifty Ways for An American to Have Fun in London

Seeded on Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:07 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

1. Pick up a random public phone; answer it and announce "London Calling." 2. Attempt to impress British girls by explaining that if not for the U.S. they would be speaking German. 3.

travel, britain, london, england, vacation, united-kingdom, uk, fun, 50-things, fifty-things

A Grand Canyon Travelogue

Seeded on Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:13 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Katie Stalin visits the Grand Canyon and has a hell of an experience. Hiking, rafting and too many children.

travel, arizona, southwest, donkey, hiking, hike, raft, travelogue, rafting, grand-canyon-katie-stalin

The Dark Ages are a lie.

Seeded on Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:20 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

They're just a fabrication of 19th Century romanticism, Roman propaganda, and 150 years of poor teaching.

history, germany, vikings, france, art, europe, trade, england, rome, greece

On the Subject of Cathy

Seeded on Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:55 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

The comic strip Cathy is awful, but that's been written about before. Here, the author discusses the dangers of allowing the strip to continue.

entertainment, women, comics, comic-strip, cathy, cathy-guisewhite, syndicated-comics

This month in history.

Seeded on Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:16 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Find out what happened using The Historigon.

history, japan, india, spain, iran, central-asia, nuclear, florida, eggs, california

The Dangers of Time Travel

Seeded on Fri Feb 9, 2007 1:16 PM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Time travel is not, and may never be, possible. However, a committee at the prestigious Flagstaff Institute of Theoretical Physics has released a new report detailing just how stupidly dangerous travel to the past or future may be.

disease, science, jesus, austerlitz, dangers, napoleon, time-travel, paradox, crucifixion, small-pox

What if ants built a space ship?

Seeded on Mon Feb 5, 2007 9:10 AM EST (User Submission)

One person's take on how such a ship would be designed.

space, science, article, ant, ants, planets, planet, space-travel, interstellar, news-of-the-world

Fifty Interesting Things About Elizabethia

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:09 PM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Amazing facts about the great state of Elizabethia.

state, states, odd-news, saturn, 50-things, elizabethia, fifty-things, rorschach, wind-mill

Blast From the Previous

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:48 PM EST (axesandalleys.com)

An interesting flashback to 1907 talking about the uselessness of automobiles.

history, editorial, cow, car, shoes, cars, article, horse, automobile, opinion

Ask Montezuma: Pentember 2007

Seeded on Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:35 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

The best advice column I've read in a decade.

france, california, cat, hollywood, driving, detroit, greece, hamburger, wales, welsh

Katie Stalin Visits Glacier National Monument

Seeded on Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:04 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Glacier National Park, Montana – My friend Thom told me I should check out a glacier before they're all gone due to something he calls climate change. I looked it up and it turns out there are glaciers in the United States. Well, I don't see what the BFD is.

travel, global-warming, science, climate-change, glacier, montana, mountains, hiking, travelogue, glacier-national-monument

New Comics

Seeded on Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:49 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

The second installment of new comics by Scott Birdseye.

entertainment, flu, flag, emergency, doctor, astronaut, comics, influenza, web-comics, comic

New Comics

Seeded on Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:00 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

The first third of new comics by Scott Birdseye

entertainment, dinosaur, comics, web-comics, comic, web-comic, cremation, triceratops, cro-magnon, scott-birdseye

Noble Gasses

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:51 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

What are they good for?

chemistry, science, elements, periodic-table, noble-gasses

How to Build a Portable Music Player

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:32 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

An excellent guide to making your own portable music player.

technology, DIY, mp3, howto, vinyl, cd, how-to, lp, portable-music-player, make-magazine

Homo Sapien

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:24 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Evolution's greatest creation.

evolution, man, science, primate, anthropology, paleontology, hominid, leonardo-da-vinci, creation, homo-sapien

Our Guide to Novenclature: Part III

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:56 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Novenclature is a list of new words important for the coming year.

english, world-news, lexicon, 2007, vocabulary, new-words, novenclature, languagehat

The Engagement Vole

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:30 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

What do you think of the diamond trade?

politics, africa, vole, diamond-trade, engagement-ring, modern-slavery, blood-diamonds, debeers

The Historigon: This Month in History

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:11 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

Find out what happened this month in history with The Historigon.

history, asia, africa, native-american, arthur-c-clarke, historigon, ulysses-s-grant, hero-of-alexandria, han-china, caesar-augustus

Saturn

Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:19 AM EST (axesandalleys.com)

The Hague, EU - Delegates all agreed that Jupiter sure is large, Earth is chock-full of living organisms, and Venus is bright, but once again Saturn, the ringed wonder between Jupiter and Uranus, took home top honors in the sixth annual "World's Greatest Planet" competition.

mars, mercury, science, saturn, astronomy, earth, jupiter, planet, uranus, venus