Guillermo del Toro's "Simpsons" Treehouse of Horror Opening Sequence/Couch Gag

Greatest. Opening. Ever.

Oscar Wilde on Art

The Reverend Lovejoy Tells It Like It Is

Lego X-Wing Fighter

Slate reports that  the largest Lego model ever built is a Star Wars X-Wing fighter. Cool!

Woody Allen Graphic

by Alexey Kurbatov

Coffee

According to Dan Charles at NPR, America isn't the #1 coffee consumer:
 
Lindsey Bolger, director of coffee for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, says if you measure the amount of coffee consumed per coffee drinker, the world champions live in Nordic countries. “Depending on which country, they’re up to eight cups of coffee per person, per day. In the U.S., we’re at maybe 2 or 2.5 cups of coffee per day,” she says. Americans actually used to drink a lot more coffee. Per person, we drank almost twice as much during World War II.

Buster Keaton's Car

Love him!

Thunderstorm from Space

Every Video Game from the Simpsons

CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos

Cherry Blossoms

Visitors walk under illuminated cherry blossoms in full bloom along the Chidorigafuchi moats in Tokyo on March 22, 2013. Many people enjoy viewing the blossoms all over the country during this season.

Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters

Life on Mars?

Phil Plait reports on Curiosity's discovery of ancient evidence which could have led to life:

In a nutshell, Curiosity drilled into a rock to examine it chemically, and found evidence of clay minerals, which form in water. We’ve seen this before on Mars, but another important aspect of this is that it looks like the water that formed these minerals was neutral, not too strongly acidic or basic. Other places on Mars have chemistry that would be hostile to life as we know it,containing molecules like perchlorates that are very reactive with organic molecules; that it; destroying them. Curiosity also found the presence of sulfur, phosphorus, and carbon, all necessary ingredients to make life as we know it.

To be clear, Curiosity did not find evidence of life! It has been looking for organic compoundsbut has not yet found them. But it did find conditions were once conducive for it. For all the details of what Curiosity found and how it found them, go read Emily Lakdawalla’s post about this on The Planetary Society Blog.

Fight Club

One of my favorite films! Here's a cool graphic I came across...

Venus Through the Rings of Saturn

Here's a great shot of Venus as seen through the rings of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft:

Venus is the white speck just to the upper right of the center of the photograph. Cool!

Gorillas in the Leaves

What is it about piles of leaves and primates?

Sun on the Pacific

Sun on the Pacific, ISS 007 Crew, July 21, 2003, 2012.

Click to embiggen and get more.

Eclipse of the sun

Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, Solar Dynamics Observatory, April 2, 2011, 2012.

Gay Home Decor Shorts: John Saint-Denis

From the home decor company John Saint-Denis, super romantic stuff...

Simpsons Oscar Nominee

Oscar nominee, Best Animated Short. Cool!

The Storm

Yesterday, a massive storm, known as a nor'easter, swept into the already battered northeast states. As related on Slate,

By now everyone in the affected area will have heard about this massive nor’easter. These are created when a low-pressure system forms in the south, usually in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing warm moist air north. If a cold front drops down from the north, the two can meet and cause rapidly forming nasty weather. In this case, the front stretches for thousands of kilometers, and practically the entire east coast will be affected one way or another.

The image above was taken at 09:01 Eastern time Friday morning (Feb. 8, 2013) by theNASA/NOAA GOES 13 weather satellite. At that time, the eastward-moving cold front from the northwest was just about to meet and merge with the counter-clockwise spinning warm low pressure system from the south, forming a proper nor'easter. The detail in the high-res versionis stunning, and as always I have to marvel at how incredibly beautiful dangerous weather can look from space.

Nighttime Earth

Some awesome views of nightside Earth. Enjoy!

The western hemisphere: note the storm off the east coast of the U.S.