At the Ice Dog Café...

... do you know what you're doing?

Video from the "Guns Across America" rally here in Madison, Wisconsin today.

Here's some edited video showing the crowd and the signs. In the middle there is a prayer, and at the end is the national anthem. Once y...

At the Meadhouse Café...

... come on in!

"We know what the future of the Internet's going to be."

"It's going to be a great, big video platform." And here I thought it was all about the return to reading and writing.

American Girl dolls in stop-motion video.

A YouTube phenomenon. Those American Girl dolls are expensive , but if a kid is interested in stop-motion animation, she (or he) doesn't...

Where's the ball?

"Morpho Towers — Two Standing Spirals."

"[I]t's ferrofluid, which is oil laced with bits of iron oxide. When the magnets are turned on, the little bits of iron (and the oi...

At the Snow-Romp Café...

... hey, there!

The pre-blizzard.

The blizzard is scheduled to arrive later this morning. This was the pre-blizzard. I love the way the snow plow deposited a special huge sn...

"Hey, there, Zeus! Thanks for coming over."

ADDED: Serious doggy cuteness (not my video):

At the Snowfall Café...

... it's so quiet here.

At the Micro-Climate Café...

... you can have your coffee iced or extra hot, you can sit near the door or over by the fireplace, and you can be perfectly pleasant or giv...

At the Snowball Café...

... let's play! It's so exciting! *** "Café," here at the Althouse blog, signifies an open thread in the comments. Write ...

At the Is-This-Exciting Café...

... some of us can barely contain ourselves... couldn't contain ourselves in a venti cup...

Playing ball with a dog the way you play ball with a baby.

Do you really think he likes that or is he just humoring you? Or am I thinking about this the wrong way?

"Would Zeus like to come over and take me for my daily walk?"

Says Meade, over the phone to the neighbor. I watch from the window:

Cheer up about your genitalia.

Constructing the last post, I ran across this other Planned Parenthood video , which is nicely done (but NSFW). (Teased at PP's Facebook...

"I want all 3 dogs to sit!"

Just now... at Meadehouse.

"The Uncle Sam machine processes grains one by one, focusing on the transformation of corn into popcorn."

"An explosion that usually occurs en masse is here isolated so that the spectacle can be enjoyed. Satisfaction is at once visual and ga...

"Finnish Underwater Ice Fishing Mystery Finally Solved."

NPR science writer finds something amazing and mystifying , but it's completely obvious! Watch the video before you scroll down to the p...