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Who Knew - The Armpit of America Smells Delicious.

Lutoslawski — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:33:58 -0800

Manhattan maple syrup smell mystery solved, finally.

Do You Believe?

amyms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:10:45 -0800

Do you believe in ghosts on film? The history and controversy of spirit photography.

The 100 best mystery novels of all time

jbickers — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:16:42 -0800

The 100 best mystery novels of all time. Here they are, with links... 1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Included in this are The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, each of which garned a lot of votes on its own.) 2. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett 3. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe (Includes "The Gold Bug" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue," which also received a lot of individual votes.) 4. The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey 5. Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow 6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré 7. The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins 8. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler 9. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier 10. And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians or Ten Little Niggers), by Agatha Christie 11. Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver 12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie 13. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler 14. The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M Cain 15. The Godfather, by Mario Puzo 16. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris 17. A Coffin for Dimitrios, by Eric Ambler 18. Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers 19. Witness for the Prosecution, by Agatha Christie 20. The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth 21. Farewell, My Lovely, by Raymond Chandler 22. The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan 23. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco 24. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky 25. Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett 26. Rumpole of the Bailey, by John Mortimer 27. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris 28. The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L Sayers 29. Fletch, by Gregory Mcdonald 30. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré 31. The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett 32. The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins 33. Trent's Last Case, by E C Bentley 34. Double Indemnity, by James M Cain 35. Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith 36. Strong Poison, by Dorothy L Sayers 37. Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman 38. The Hot Rock, by Donald E Westlake 39. Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett 40. The Circular Staircase, by Mary Roberts Rinehart 41. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie 42. The Firm, by John Grisham 43. The Ipcress File, by Len Deighton 44. Laura, by Vera Caspary 45. I, the Jury, by Mickey Spillane 46. The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö 47. Bank Shot, by Donald E Westlake 48. The Third Man, by Graham Greene 49. The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson 50. Where Are the Children?, by Mary Higgins Clark 51. "A" Is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton 52. The First Deadly Sin, by Lawrence Sanders 53. A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman 54. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote 55. Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household 56. Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers 57. The Innocence of Father Brown, by G K Chesterton 58. Smiley's People, by John le Carré 59. The Lady in the Lake, by Raymond Chandler 60. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 61. Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene 62. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens 63. Wobble to Death, by Peter Lovesey 64. Ashenden, by W Somerset Maugham 65. The Seven Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer 66. The Doorbell Rang, by Rex Stout 67. Stick, by Elmore Leonard 68. The Little Drummer Girl, by John le Carré 69. Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene 70. Dracula, by Bram Stoker 71. The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith 72. The Moving Toyshop, by Edmund Crispin 73. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham 74. Last Seen Wearing, by Hillary Waugh 75. Little Caesar, by W R Burnett 76. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by John V Higgins 77. Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy L Sayers 78. From Russia, with Love, by Ian Fleming 79. Beast in View, by Margaret Millar 80. Smallbone Deceased, by Michael Gilbert 81. The Franchise Affair, by Josephine Tey 82. Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters 83. Shroud for a Nightingale, by P D James 84. The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy 85. Chinaman's Chance, by Ross Thomas 86. The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad 87. The Dreadful Lemon Sky, by John D MacDonald 88. The Glass Key, by Dashiell Hammett 89. Judgment in Stone, by Ruth Rendell 90. Brat Farrar, by Josephine Tey 91. The Chill, by Ross Macdonald 92. Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley 93. The Choirboys, by Joseph Wambaugh 94. God Save the Mark, by Donald E Westlake 95. Home Sweet Homicide, by Craig Rice 96. The Three Coffins (aka The Hollow Man), by John Dickson Carr 97. Prizzi's Honor, by Richard Condon 98. The Steam Pig, by James McClure 99. Time and Again, by Jack Finney 100. A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters, tied with Rosemary's Baby, by Ira Levin

Forgotten Books Found

brookeb — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:54:56 -0800

The Loganberry Book Store is the place to go if you have a favorite book from childhood and remember the characters, setting, plot and everything but the title? Well your problems are solved. Check out Loganberry Books' stump the bookseller section. They help me track down one of my all time favorites - My Very Own Special Particular Private and Personal Cat by Remy Charlip. It's like a trip to the nostalgia library.

Where do all the teaspoons go to?

hardcode — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:17:49 -0800

Where do all the teaspoons go to? A scientific study published in the British Medical Journal about where all the teaspoons in a works canteen go to.

Ghost Web Photo Gallery

Devils Rancher — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:55:46 -0800

Supernatural flashes and light leaks! The page layout is surely not the best of the web (forgivaness-- you've got to scroll past some bad 1998-vintage ads to get to the meat) but the credulous explanations for the photographic anomalies are some of the best leaps of logic I've seen posted anywhere. From cigarette smoke to light leaks, these guys leave no preternatural stone unturned.

We may have to drill

Ron — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:10:21 -0800

Research at Purdue University yields answers to one of the world's largest unsolved mysteries.

Turns out it was all just a dream of Frankie's

soyjoy — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:41:05 -0800

SPOILER ALERT: There's a movie out now that, like The Crying Game, depends for much of its impact on a plot twist. Are critics honor-bound not to blab that development to readers? (More Inside, including, duh, spoilers)

temporary temples

specialk420 — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:50:04 -0800

temporary temples
man made or not ... they are cool. via the new newstoday

Good, Old-Fashioned Mystery Novels

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:36:35 -0800

Whodunit? Who wrote it? Who'd have thunk it? Bastulli.com is a great little website for all those who love a good mystery, whether ancient or modern. ( My favourites, btw, are Dorothy L. Sayers and Patricia Highsmith. This last website - Stop! You're Killing Me!" - is also well worth investigating.)

I think he wants to believe

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:26:23 -0800

The intrinsic mystery of the crop circle is explored in this voice mail to a documentary production company. NSFW [MP3]

kirkaracha — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 09:06:07 -0800

"There he was, right in the middle of my Throat-searching radar" John Dean unmasks Deep Throat, sort of, in his Salon e-book. Who do you think it is?

vacapinta — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:18:04 -0800

A Glossary of HardBoiled Slang will allow you to understand such wonderful, alliterative phrases as:

"You dumb mug, get your mitts off the marbles before I stuff that mud-pipe down your mush - and tell your moll to hand over the mazuma."

Welcome to the world of HardBoiled Fiction. Take some time to brush up on the classics.

amanda — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:50:22 -0800

How Stupid Are Scientists? As a followup to the How Stupid Are We? thread, this article from SF Gate explores scientific "head-scratchers."

zempf — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:02:42 -0800

You thought it had gone away.. but Ginger appears to be back in the news again. This time it's an upcoming Inside magazine article that purports to conclusively reveal that "IT" is a two-wheeled scooter running on a hydrogen-powered engine. After all the hype nearly two months ago, is this the answer? Does anyone even care anymore?

stbalbach — Tue, 02 Jan 2001 08:27:02 -0800

Location of Ark of Covenant and Holly Grail.. possibly narrowed down .. involves nights of the Templar, inscriptions on columns, NAZI searches and other Indiana Jones (Monty Python?) like adventure.