Spectacular! Red Sprite Lightning with Green Aurora Background: Pic, info: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130522.html

Reason #8465 why you should check that your tattoo artist uses a grammar/spellchecker: http://tinyurl.com/qewb9nd

Lots more: http://tinyurl.com/pll2gjo

Safe Rooms that can withstand an F5 can net-cost as little as $500: http://tinyurl.com/pq346hf

A safe room, built to FEMA specs and designed to withstand 250MPH winds,
will cost only around $2,500; and FEMA (and/or other programs) may pick
up the first $2,000 or so.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2013/05/oklahoma_tornado_storm_shelters_where_is_the_safest_place_in_a_tornado.html

http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=1536

What an F5 does (Oklahoma GIF): http://twitpic.com/cs8yn1

25 words that haven't changed since before the Ice Age: http://tinyurl.com/d63kwxl

25 "ultraconserved" words that have persisted across languages and millennia, almost unchanged:

"Thou, I, not, that, we, to give, who, this, what, man/male, ye, old, mother, to hear, hand, fire ,to pull, black, to flow, bark, ashes, to spit, worm."

Story, audio clips, more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/words-that-last/

What is going on up there? (Heavy metal bands per 100,000 population: http://tinyurl.com/79t82mp )

Tip o' the hate to: http://nowiknow.com/

Yes, it's a little silly, but I'm sending sent my name and message to Mars... http://tinyurl.com/cntzgvu

Send your name a message or a poem to Mars this fall. http://tinyurl.com/cntzgvu

NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars: NASA is inviting
members of the public to submit their names and a personal message
online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the
Martian upper atmosphere....

Press release: http://tinyurl.com/cntzgvu

Entry form: http://tinyurl.com/d2yq65a

Mission site: http://tinyurl.com/cfzbfxo

Canadian stairwell captured on camera! http://tinyurl.com/ctq3n9p

@TheOnion: Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave. http://onion.com/ZWtz6b

http://onion.com/ZWtz6b

Individual atoms, near absolute zero temperature, manipulated to make world's smallest stop-action movie: http://tinyurl.com/bwc8znn

"The star of this movie was ready for its close-up—so ready it was magnified 100 million times. A Boy And His Atom is officially the world's smallest film, created by IBM by manipulating thousands of carbon monoxide molecules into an animated stop-motion short, reports the Telegraph. The film, which features a boy playing with an atom, was shot under a two-ton scanning tunneling microscope at -450 degrees, using an extremely sharp needle to manually move each atom one by one for 250 frames..."

http://tinyurl.com/bwc8znn

Humble beginnings: The world’s first-ever public web page, posted 20 years ago: http://tinyurl.com/24ss9y8

20 years, but it seems a lot longer, considering how far the Web has come.

http://tinyurl.com/24ss9y8