According to the BBC, a spider has forced a family to move out of their home.
Spider forces family out of home
A soldier’s family have been frightened out of their home by a spider thought to have been brought to Essex from Afghanistan in a kitbag.
Lorraine Griffiths and her three children have moved out of their [...]

For those of you who didn’t know because I never bothered to tell you, I turned 30 last week, which means I’m only 60 years and 7 houses away from becoming John McCain. Which is depressing. So, as you can probably imagine, I’ve spent the morning doing what any person facing their own mortality square [...]

Hey, had you heard the good news? They found Bigfoot! Now, I realize you might be a bit skeptical, what with Bigfoot being the crazed delusion of a bunch of inbred mountain people, but seriously, for real this time. See, here’s your photographic proof:

This Bigfoot has ceased to be. It is an ex-Bigfoot.
Ewww. I think [...]

Despite the fact that I’m firmly in the bag for Bob Barr’s mustache for President this year, I still have to admit a morbid curiosity in the campaign of John McCain. Truth be told, I’ve always had a certain fondness for John McCain, kind of in the same way I do for Abe Vigoda and [...]

Last week saw the first annual Sod Conference (patent pending), when Nate and his wife were in Bismarck (which, as was agreed to be all attendees, should henceforth be referred to either as The Biz or ‘Smark) and joined me, the admin, and infrequent blogger Kelly Hagen for drinks at the local drinking hole. Much [...]

With all the talk in the news about Next Year’s Presumptive President of the United States Barack Obama and Next Year’s Presumptive Unwilling Admittee to a Retirement Home John McCain, not a lot of ink is being devoted towards anyone else in the presidential race. But Erik, I hear you say with my superhuman Internet [...]

As I sit in my office today, foot twitching, face freshly painted like a clown, impatiently waiting for midnight to roll around so I can start watching The Dark Knight already, I have decided to help pass the time with a Batman-themed blog post. To that end, I wanted to do a side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side comparison of [...]

So as any nerd reading this can tell you (Nerd call-out: What up, nerds!), the iPhone 3g came out this last week and, like its predecessor, inspired long lines of impatient dorks to line up outside AT&T dealers nationwide (and by nationwide, I mean everywhere but North Dakota, as we have neither AT&T cellular service [...]

Want to know how I can tell that I’m getting old? Because I’ve reached the stage where I become angered by commercials to the point where I feel the need to write about it. Oh, well. At least I’m not sending it the editor of the local newspaper. Nope. I’m blogging about it. And now [...]

I don’t very often get the chance to break BIG NEWS on this blog, but today I do have what would qualify as BIG NEWS. It might even qualify as BIG BIG NEWS, depending on your outlook. So here it is:
I’m having a baby.
Wait, you know what I think that needs? Bigger font size. [...]