The Great War made even GREATER! Some chaps have come up with this horrid little number, wherein you command some Tommies in the trenches. Accurately enough, scores of men are lost before you learn the simplest of lessons, like "stay in the trench". Right. Let's get this nasty business with the Kaiser all sorted, show him wot's wot, and we can all be home in time for Christmas and sticky pudding! Up we go, men! [Taken from the bloody Huns over on their Blue Danube.][Some sort of Prussian Flash-business, I expect.]

Drive-thru voting. For when you want to exercise your franchise and throw the bums out, but not get your fat ass out of the car to do it. more inside

A more fearsome saber-toothed cat.

40 Creative Lamp Designs (via StumbleUpon) more inside

Lucian Freud's portrait of Francis Bacon sold today for rather less than expected. Bacon painted Freud many times. The Tate has an interactive exhibition on Bacon. Here's some Freud to balance things a bit.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Boathouse: a Case Study in the Ontology of Art. In 2000, three rowers from Buffalo's West Side Rowing Club sought the approval of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for the construction of Wright's design for a boathouse, and it was realized last year. But a new Frank Lloyd Wright building raises some interesting questions -- when is it a FLW building, and when is it a reasonable facsimile thereof? What is needed to make a building a FLW? more inside

Substitutes Can let you down Quicker Than a Strapless gown Burma-Shave more inside

I had no idea who the other medallist was. (Or why there was one left handed salute and one right handed). more inside

Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.....

NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-FLAVOR THYME CUBE (via MetaChat)

Tears for Levi Stubbs. The singer is dead at 72.

Digital artist Jason Feeny develops works of "candy colored madness".

CopyPasteCharacter. Because sometimes you need to copy and paste characters™.

Yes We Carve

Help keep your hitchin' available for all Californians!

Monkeys move paralysed muscles with their minds: Sending brain signals through electrodes to a paralysed wrist muscle restores movement. [Via]

Broken Koans and other Zen debris Reader-submitted koans, some of which are great, some which are...eh.

Faecal Matter On Public Transport. The Facts! more inside

The 15 Dumbest Names for Web 2.0 Startups selected by a "Plugg organizer" so they are all at least WORSE than "Plugg". And some more. And a few more from 6 months ago. And 10 more from last year. And 25 more from 2 years ago. Okay, it's an old meme, but as long as there are startups like oooooc.com...

In a World Where Dogs Wore Shawls....Dogs in Shawls 2: This time, they're upside down. more inside