Louis de Cazenave, dead at 110. France's oldest WWI veteran has died, leaving just one more -- the same as for Canada, Germany and Turkey. The UK, U.S., and Australia have three, and Italy two. Some striking comments in the obit.

Disturbing Russian Playgrounds - more - and more - aargh!

People who live in glass houses... Tressa Prisbrey and her bottle "village" David H. Brown's embalming fluid bottle house. (ulp!) Charles Stagg Tomislav Radovanovic Tom Kelly more inside

Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider Quantum mechanics has a number of weird consequences, this focuses on three (inter-related) ones: 1. Objects can behave both like particles (with definite position and a continuum of states) and waves (with indefinite position and (in confined situations) quantised states; 2. The equations that govern quantum mechanics are deterministic, but the standard interpretation of the solutions of these equations is probabilistic; and 3. If instead one applies the laws of quantum mechanics literally at the macroscopic scale, then the universe itself must split into the superposition of many distinct "worlds".

711chan pwns Scientology - Hackers from the /i/nsurgency raided scientology's secret, sacred documents. Documents were leaked. They are crazy. Read them if you dare.

The Return of the X-Files. Chris Carter gives some intital statements about the upcoming sequel. more inside

Fantasmagorie (1908) by Emile Cohl more inside

Chess Great Bobby Fischer Dies An intriguing character, he. RIP

Why Americans Have Swallowed an Official Conspiracy Theory More Full of Holes Than Swiss Cheese

LOL Builder more inside

Nabokov wanted his final, unfinished work destroyed. 'It's a decision that has fallen to his sole surviving heir (and translator), Dmitri Nabokov, now 73. Dmitri has been torn for years between his father's unequivocal request and the demands of the literary world to view the final fragment of his father's genius, a manuscript known as The Original of Laura. Should Dmitri defy his father's wishes for the sake of "posterity"?'

We Are Borg This article is the latest on a post put here in May of '04 "I know. I've done the research" - T. Cruise. Love that io9 website!

Flour sacks, feed sacks, quilts, and collectors more inside

Lasagna Cat: Um... It's Garfield and uh... videos. And musical hits from the '80s, of course.

The Mondo Spider - chasing little old ladies across the street was never more enjoyable. Here it is in action. more inside

Library of Congress posts 3000+ pictures on Flickr "Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist."

The Atlas Archives - A history of the short-lived comics publisher, Atlas/Seaboard (1974-1975)

The milestone threads Since we're slow today, I give you some glimpses at MonkeyFilter history. They're not our best, threads, by far, but they were milestones: 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, . Added bonus: 666.

Batman - a comic

Peter Russell Clark [warning: expletives] every mum's darling, promoting cheese and eggs.