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 sites across the Web. We'll still be here in different guises,

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 wrote about Long Awkward Pose . A year and

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, for Starship Dimensions, dates back to May 13, 2003 .

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, Kiddie Records Weekly, originally ran May 24, 2005 . Except

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 originally ran August 6, 2002 . Here it is again,

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 slideshow is even more packed with images of jolly old men

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 today. If you need help with the Christmas carols, here's where

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 published weekly and wrapped everything up in a

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 published every Monday and wrapped everything up in a

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 Jessica, Jennifer, and Jacob glory: "So, there's a little

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: "Polar Inertia is on the move, documenting the diverse

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 Pick originally ran the week of June 25, 2001

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 lip, with graspable extremities." Sprout such clutch-worthy growth, though, and

Jonathan Harris, creator of such stylish charts of the Web's emotional and intellectual life as Lovelines , 10x10 , and Phylotaxis (and—disclaimer—the Yahoo! Netrospective ), now relates his own experience spearing two whales with Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska. The

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 lack thereof. Here are a few facts we learned from the site: 80% of

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 Web phenomenon: an online comic strip starring a handful of savagely sarcastic office

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 shuttle lift-off. This YouTube collection of NASA and amateur clips takes you to the

When People Magazine called Paul Krassner the father of the underground press, he promptly demanded a paternity test. His brainchild, The Realist, published "extreme satire," and ran from 1958-1974. Just over a decade later, in 1985, it staged a return

The site is bold in its endeavor (to make every recipe in "The French Laundry Cookbook"). It's enamored of its subject (cuisine, cooking, and chowing down). And it vividly translates the joie de vivre of the kitchen to the webpage.

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 Greek playwright Aeschylus . Thus did the great bird bring to