Forever Young Treehouses is a corporation that designs treehouses for communities, camps, and organizations with a special emphasis on accessibility for the disabled. Their treehouses are also environmentally-friendly, and incorporate existing trees into the design. Their goal is to have an accessible treehouse in every state. Forever Young's staff will scout the area, inspect the trees, make a custom design, and help to organize local financing and labor. Take a look at some of their projects.... READ ON

As we near year's end, we're re-posting a few heavily commented-upon posts from earlier in 2007. Here's one of our favorites, from September. This post also inspired my all-time favorite negative comment (#12). I've never been in a great public restroom. I was under the impression they were all basically disgusting, with varying levels of nastiness. Apparently, I've been going in all the wrong places. Cintas, a company that sells corporate restroom supplies, has been naming... READ ON

In the past week, the discoveries of two very different and amazing underground temples were in the news. But they are not the only ones. 1. The Lupercale Just last week, the first pictures of a recently-discovered underground grotto in Rome were released. The chamber is 26 feet high and 24 feet in diameter. The discovery was made about a year ago as workers were repairing the remains of Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatine, a hill in Rome. Archaeologists believe it is the original Lupercale, the... READ ON

Growing up in Florida, we had a handful of local supermarkets: Publix and Winn-Dixie were big in my town, and I always wondered who shopped at the Piggly Wiggly a few miles to the south. We even briefly had a "Florida's Choice" (operated by Kroger), which was notable for its going-out-of-business sale, which netted my family a freezer full of Indian spices for about five bucks. (It must have taken us four years to work through those, seriously.) Anyway, the supermarket continues to be one of the few... READ ON