What it shows is a very young Oprah Winfrey lip syncing in a video at age 17 just before she entered, and won, the Miss Black Tennessee beau...

The 12 Most Convincing Real-Life Ghost Stories . Who Was Dr. Frankenstein ? Absolut Frankenstein . Ten Vampire Cats . Check out this silly H...

The Lost Masterpiece . How the Spanish version of Dracula came to be so much better than the one we saw. Smashing Pumpkins in Slow Motion ....

While researching the tale of Mercy Brown for the Cemetery Stories post, I read that she was the only accused vampire ever exhumed in the ...

The Physics Book by Clifford A. Pickover . I'm glad I already have a copy of this! This thread at Metafilter lines out so much of what...

Al Jolson in a short clip from the 1934 film Wonder Bar .

The Macramé Owl Rescue & Sanctuary Organization. (via Laughing Squid ) Nostromo Crew Portraits . (via Metafilter ) Joss Whedon cast, d...

A 1967 'toon by Shamus Culhaine. (via Your Daily Cartoon )

The idea of a person turning into a dangerous animal has been part of folklore ever since folklore was invented. It’s quite popular today, a...

Pssst: There's a giveaway going on at Miss Cellania ! MLC Productions was on Nikoi Island in Indonesia last month to shoot a commercial...

Show off your juggling skills! He'll try to follow it, because he thinks you're playing three-card monty. (via Arbroath )

Attack of the Killer B-Movies! The story of Roger Corman and his many, many films. CSI: Legoland. It’s just like the CSI you see on TV, p...

Popeye the Sailor Man, from 1933.

From the 1950s.

Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra welcome in the 1980s with the movie Xanadu . Roller skates, big hair, harem pants, light...

Behold, a wheelchair that can be completely controlled just by facial muscles . This could mean movement, freedom, and so much more for para...

It’s that time of year, when we look to graveyards for tales that scare the Dickens out of us. Ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and even vampi...

The Pathology of Classical Sculpture , or Where Did the Penises Go? Bricks of War . When the video game Gears of War meets Lego, neat stuff ...

Played by Zoe Thomson. She was seven years old when this was recorded. Now she is eight and plays with her band, The Mini Band .

Mrs. A.J. Young and five of her 11 children worked in the mills of Tifton, Georgia in the early 20th century. Joe Manning found out what ...