Dear readers of Yahoo! Picks, We're sorry to say that Picks has stopped updating. After 12 years, we're moving on to new projects and fresh ways of highlighting cool...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've called up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. In 2006, we...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've called up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. Today's Pick,...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've called up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. Today's Pick,...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've called up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. Today's Pick...

In honor of the past dozen years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran December 25, 2005. Two years later, the...

In honor of the past 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran November 18, 2003. It's still singing along...

In honor of the past 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran the week of February 2, 1998, a time when Picks...

To mark the past 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran the week of January 13, 1997, a time when Picks...

To celebrate the past 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorites from the archives. This feature originally ran March 8, 2005. Here it is again, in all its...

In keeping with our celebration of 12 years of Yahoo! Picks, we're calling up favorite from the archives. This feature originally ran on March 14, 2006. Here it is again:...

As 2007 comes to a close, we're marking 12 years of Yahoo! Picks. To celebrate, we've decided to call up some of our favorite features from the past dozen years. Today's...

Just any scraggly covering of the upper lip won't gain you full entry into London's Handlebar Club. The moustache in question must be "a hirsute appendage of the upper...

Jonathan Harris, creator of such stylish charts of the Web's emotional and intellectual life as Lovelines, 10x10, and Phylotaxis (and—disclaimer—the Yahoo!...

Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, has launched a webpage devoted entirely to the issue of product safety and the most recent recalls for...

About a month after September 11, many people were delighted, some shocked, and not a few offended to find someone had forwarded them the latest exponentially spreading...

NASCAR is fun. Fighter jets are cool. But when it comes to engines, power, and feel-it-in-your-bones rocket propulsion, nothing compares to the spectacle of a space...

When People Magazine called Paul Krassner the father of the underground press, he promptly demanded a paternity test. His brainchild, The Realist, published "extreme...

There are many reasons why we love the blog French Laundry at Home. The site is bold in its endeavor (to make every recipe in "The French Laundry Cookbook"). It's...

In 458 B.C., an eagle clutching a tortoise mistook "a bald head for a stone" and dropped its catch on the shiny cranium—which, unfortunately, topped the body of the...