"The challenge is first catching the dragonfly." Princeton scientists are using tiny tracking devices to follow the migration of Green Darner dragonflies.

Hyperinflation or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Iranian Oil Bourse. more inside

America's (Autistic) Army. Because the United States Armed Services believes everyone deserves everyone, even the disabled, deserves their chance to serve. (Except those goddamned fags.) more inside

Stubbies. A thorough explanation of New Zealand stubbies (3.5mb mpeg ad). more inside

"Superman knows he’s got what we want": So, we all know that comic books routinely objectify the female physique in order to appeal to the adolescent male demographic, yawn, old news, moving along and all that... BUT, I've never seen the argument so eloquently presented as in this Livejournaler's alternate universe comic book covers.

Stubbies. A thorough collection of Canadian stubbies. more inside

RoboCup! By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team. To work towards this goal robot competitions are held.

FedEx Arrivals During Thunderstorms

Tim Patch is a Succesful Artist Tips for becoming a succesful artist: * Choose a medium that you have a passion for. * Do what 99% of people won't do. * Create your own style. (NSF the Buttocks Avoidant)

Art School Confidential. It's out (kinda), and the reviews are so-so. But -- screwem, I'll see it anyway. (As previously sorta discussed on Koko's earlier exhaustive thread on all things Clowes.)

What's a Dell good for? (embedded Google video)

From sand and lake water. Some impressive structures spring from the simplest ingredients.

M.O.N.K.E.Y. No. SE7EN : Man-made opiates normally keep everyone yawning. For those of you new to the game: make a sentence using words that begin with corresponding letters of the last word of the previous sentence. For those of you who are familiar, this should load a little faster, for a while, anyway. more inside

Thumbs up. Up from the under.

In Spain the Socialist Party has introduced a bill to include simians in the world of people. If the bill passes, one assumes that upon adulthood said simians will, be granted the vote, a drivers license and they will be permitted to drink alcohol?? Next thing you know,,one of them could be a world leader.

"You have really wierd dreams when you pass out" according to Atlanta Journal Constitution staffer after his flight with The Blue Angels in a F/A-18.

Starlords. Star Wars / Lord of the Rings Disco Mashup! Via BB.

Aw, crap. This really bums me out.

The website SourceWatch contains editable write-ups on over 200 industry-funded organizations and a helluva lot more. Here's its list of lists.

What would you do? Heart attack material.