When tearing into a box of Crackerjacks as a child, who wasn't disappointed if the toy surprise didn't contain a tattoo? A show of keyboards, please"¦ Mankind, of course, has been fascinated with tattoos since Neolithic times, using body ink for everything from religious purposes to making personal artistic statements. But the ways in which we view tattoos hasn't changed much at all over the thousands of years we've been inking ourselves. Until now, that is. The... READ ON

Okay, that looks like a rasberry and the last time I checked, rasberries are not sharp. But according to the American Institute of Physics, this is a field ion microscope image of a tungsten needle, the world's sharpest man-made object. So what are those little round ball-looking things? Those are individual atoms. Link via The Cellar Image of the Day... READ ON

"An incident involving a player swearing and a coach slapping the player has resulted in reprimands, apologies and a five-second delay for broadcasts of the Little League World... READ ON

"I was walking along a path with two friends when suddenly the sky turned blood-red "“ there were tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city "“ I stood there trembling with anxiety, and sensed an infinite scream passing through nature." Who can read Edvard Munch's willies-inducing description of his 1893 masterpiece, The Scream, without pausing to contemplate our own impending environmental apocalypse(s)? From the grotesque new strength of cyclonic storm... READ ON