In Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the eponymous character ponders mortality while holding the skull of Yorick, the late jester to the king.

David Tennant, who was the Tenth Doctor (not the tenth actor to play the Doctor) on Doctor Who, is a classically trained actor who has played Hamlet in the past. He would like to benefit future generations of actors once he has shuffled off this mortal coil. The Daily Mail reports that Tennant would like to donate his skull so that he can play Yorick in future productions of Hamlet.

Tennant is following a great Shakespearean tradition. Polish musician André Tchaikowsky donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company to serve as Yorick and Tennant himself has used that skull on the stage.

-via @azirascrowley

I ordered a @counterparts905 Heaven Let Them Die vinyl from Amazon and I instead received Clay Aikens latest Christmas album. I went through the replacement process and you’ll never guess what showed up today. The exact same Clay Aiken album. @brendan905 pic.twitter.com/KtbP9PJ2v4

— Tj (@letmeliveanddie) March 5, 2025

X user @letmeliveanddie ordered from Amazon a vinyl record of "Heaven Let Them Die," a song by the Canadian punk band Counterparts. Instead, Amazon sent him a Christmas music album by the soft rock star Clay Aiken.

@letmeliveanddie processed the return. Amazon sent him the Clay Aiken album again. And then a third time.

It is a portent.

-via Brendan Murphy

YouTuber Generic Entertainment illustrates formal and informal logical fallacies who are busy attempting to organize a meeting and then the leadership of their group. He plays all roles with improvised costumes, such as No True Scotsman with a bagpipe made of a plaid shirt and painter's tape as blue facepaint.

Their argument persists until the supreme fallacy arrives on the scene to aggressively arbitrate what he sees as a petty, meaningless, and ultimately fallacious dispute. Be sure to read the comments at the YouTube video, which are filled with appropriate jokes about the fallacies that did not attend the meeting.

-Thanks, Bruce!

HOUS is a Korean design firm that offers fresh, modern designs for home furnishings. Its product lineup includes a table that looks like a goofy monster and a mirror that frames the user within the perspective of a digital camera.

The firm's most recent design is a set of four stools that, when stacked on top of each other, resemble a hamburger.

I'll sit on one of the buns, each of which is cushioned.

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Can you imagine Star Trek as a Western? It's not that hard. The original series had "Spectre of the Gun," which directly referenced the shootout at the O.K. Corral. The Next Generation had "A Fistful of Datas", one of the more forgetable malfunctioning holodeck episodes. The time travel episode "Time's Arrow" is arguably a Western.

This Starfleet science division (hence the blue) officer would fit right in at a Ten Forward set in Dodge City. Miss Molly Heart wears the fetching outfit for @StarfleetCosplay.

Alexandra Dillon is an artist in Los Angeles who paints human figures on everyday objects. These faces add personalities to the tools. I'm especially fond of this cleaver that, with a terrified face anthropomorphizing it, creates a sense of horror for the viewer.

For many years, innovative public libraries have offered physical objects that patrons can check out. These include household tools, fishing gear, and toys. Such a collection is often called a "library of things."

The Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts has a variety of things available for checkout, including a ghost hunting kit. This particular kit is sold by Ghost Stop, a paranormal investigation supply firm in Virginia. I think it's the Spirit Box Ghost Hunting Kit, which is on sale for $219.95.

This addition to the library's collections is a prudent choice, given that the Barnstable area has a known ghost infestation problem.

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Now the great lady's famously enigmatic smile is rendered in creamy peanut butter.

Artist Brock Davis--a long time Neatorama favorite--is widely known playing with his food with stunning results, such as a ruffled potato chip painted with a lenticular effect, candy corn (everyone's favorite Halloween candy) shaped like human teeth, and cereal that looks like a TIE Fighter.

Now he summons us to Leonardo's workshop and Mona Lisa's beauty.

Street Art Utopia brings to our attention cement mixer trucks painted to resemble matryoshka--Russian nesting dolls. This particular one is in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.

In my mind, matryoshka are a traditional Russian handicraft. But according to a page maintained by the Russian Studies program at Macalester College, they date back to only 1892.

Gallaudet University is a school in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the educational needs of deaf students. The appropriately-named blog Library Shenanigans described a vicious and cruel prank played on the beleaguered library staff in January of 1940.

During the night, a cabal of hardened student criminals penetrated the library's security and turned every book around so that the spines faced inward. The above photo from the university's archives shows students examining the wreckage of their library before setting it to right by reversing the books.

Now, 85 years later, the criminals must have long since descended to their graves and to pay for transgressions in an eternal torrent of brimstone-scented shushings.

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Fun question from @Sam__Enright:

What’s the “anti-reading list” in your field of expertise? pic.twitter.com/vawry5SLok

— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) February 21, 2025

This is an interesting question by Alec Stapp. What books are widely popular but regarded by scholars or experts within their respective fields as bunk?

I have expertise in nothing, but the question reminds me of The Age of Arthur by John Morris. It's a history of early medieval Britain. The author, a highly respected historian, argues for the historicity of Arthur as an actual person. Although widely read, other historians regard it as preposterous and the work greatly damaged Morris's reputation.

Reading it, I could understand why. Morris describes historical records of various Celtic warlords in Fifth Century Britain and leaps to the conclusion these necessarily describe a real Arthur instead of, well, just various Celtic warlords.

More generally, I'm skeptical of general purpose public intellectuals. I think it's impossible to be an expert in more than one field, so I hesitate to give credence to scholars writing or speaking outside of their expertise. And we should not underestimate the capacity of experts to be wrong.

What books do you think should be on an anti-reading list as defined by Sam Enright?

(Not just books that you don't like.)

Storyful reports that Paul Eickhof recorded this video of three turkeys repeatedly circling a particular tombstone in a cemetery in North Dakota.

Why? Popular Science tells us that turkeys sometimes circle potential threats. Their circular motion on the ground reflects their practice of flying as flocks rather than individual.

But why this grave? What is it about the person buried here that the turkeys find so alarming?

-via Aelfred the Great, who understands the scope of the supernatural threat:

The ritual has begun.

Comes now the frostfire, the Unspeaking Men, the Scar in the Sky.

You will curse the day of your birth and yet be unable to look away.

Pray for cold iron. Pray for bones of stone. Pray.

The ritual has begun. https://t.co/GQPykOri0S

— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) February 16, 2025

Mehdi Dakhli is a designer and art curator with a flair for creative furniture designs. His new Muravey Bench is designed to resemble a giant art scurrying through the home. It's an elegant form for a contemporary home that wants to attract the interest of guests without being gauche. Ants convey a sense of order and productivity to a society that cries out for bold new leadership.

And I for one welcome our insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted blogging personality, I can be helpful for rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

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There's a special kind of terror that a parent feels when they see their child in sudden mortal danger.

It is never far from your thoughts.

The Guardian reports that Adrián Simancas and his father, Dell, were kayaking in the Bahía El Águila in the Strait of Magellan in southernmost Chile. Dell was recording their trip at the moment when a humpback whale swallowed his son. After a brief moment, the whale spat out the young man and his kayak.

Hypothermia was a serious danger in these frigid waters, so the two went to shore immediately. Adrián was, thankfully, unharmed.

-via Nag on the Lake

This watch is an example of of anti-theft pocket watch designs from the Victorian Era. Antique watch expert Dan Coatsworth explains that watches were so expensive at the time and so easy to steal that the spring-loaded spikes remain in place if the chain is pulled slowly, but project if the loop is pulled quickly. As in Dune, the slow blade penetrates the shield.

Some of the inventors took advantage of the cylindrical shape to craft charming acorn shapes. They all attempted to do harm or at least alarm to the would-be thieves.

-via Steampunk Tendencies