Random link time!

First things first, let me say that I still adore Pat's Papers. I mean, I try to pick and choose what I repost from there, because I think copying everything would be a little pathetic, but there's always a good article or two on that site, every day.

So we've got the famous rat-on-a-train. The scary thing is not that there's a rat on the train. Of COURSE there are rats in the trains, people EAT down there and it's a CITY and it's WARM down there. The scary thing is that the rat apparently had no fear or compunction about just jumping on people. I thought they were generally smarter and more cautious than that?

This is named the most badass alphabet ever, and it might well be.

Storms may create anti-matter. Spooky!

And you have to have to HAVE TO see this. Be sure to check out the pictures of the world's biggest cave. It's got a frakkin' jungle in it! I'm thinking... Underland. But, you know, not under NYC.

This set of crystals in caves is no less impressive.

Climbing trees and snowball fights 'should be encouraged by schools'

The USDA is calling for huge changes in school lunch standards.

Regional slang is "alive and well" on Twitter

Oh, and an article on humans and finding patterns.