This one is making the rounds lately.  It underscores the importance of insurance.

Here's a video montage of some Polish pen-spinning. Google "pen spinning," and you'll get a look at just how popular it is, especially in Poland. 

On an unrelated note, someone who uses the name "curiousgeorgia" sometimes comments on my blogs.  If you're out there, curiousgeorgia, send me an e-mail: bshrader -at- wral.com.  A fellow sent me an e-mail about a recipe for "Hot Ziggetys" that he wants to share with you!

Well, if it's not rotten in these pictures, it will be within a few weeks.   Please enjoy 10 famous paintings recreated by vegetable artist Ju Duoqi.

Don't say I never gave you anything.  Here's how to make your own butter, you do-it-yourselfers.

Dinner at your house Saturday?  I'll bring potatoes to bake.  See ya around 6.

Atlas Obscura is a neat Web site that's trying to create a compendium of the world's weirdest places.  It's part encyclopedia, part atlas and part travel guide.