Favorite Thing Today

one day, one inspiration

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Are You Good Enough to Be a Tennis Line Judge?

Watch a series of shots at full speed and decide whether each was in or out. Some will be traveling upwards of 100 miles per hour and you only get one chance to make the call. Good luck!

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Property owners along a commercial strip plotted to create a voting district without voters, only to discover belatedly that the boundaries they drew actually included one lone voter -- and she's not in favor of their political goal.

From “A gerrymandering attempt that went hilariously awry” by Michael Hiltzik

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Golden retrievers frolicking in a field

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MarI/O - Computer learns to play “Super Mario World”

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Tourist agencies ... encourage the nude runs there because of the business they bring in. And, yes, you often get a T-shirt.

“If you can’t stand the heat, try nude racing” by Jon Marcus

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Up in the Air: Meet the Man Who Flies Around the World for Free

Last year, a young man walked into the Seattle airport and took the next flight to anywhere — and he hasn't come down since

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First and Final Frames

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This certainly scratches an old itch

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When Joe Fortenberry, a farm boy from Happy, Texas, threw one down at the West Side YMCA in New York City on March 9, 1936, he may not have been the first man to dunk a basketball, but he was the first to do it in an aesthetically stirring way, and in front of the right people.

“Learn to Dunk” by Michael McKnight

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Star Wars infographics

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At the XL Center for UConn-Tulsa

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A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world.

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These keepsake passwords, as I came to call them, are like tchotchkes of our inner lives. They derive from anything: Scripture, horoscopes, nicknames, lyrics, book passages. Like a tattoo on a private part of the body, they tend to be intimate, compact and expressive.

From "The secret life of passwords" by Ian Urbina