I Left My Star Destroyer in San Francisco Amateur video of a Death Star over San Francisco. Shot on his junkie DV camera. [via]

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - A five part documentary from Jon Ronson. Looking through hundreds of archive boxes that Kubrick left behind.

Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books - So many wonderful things.

The Big Picture - Pictures you see in your newspaper, but better and more. [via]

Gorilla & The Maiden [Risqué YT] - If I had to describe it, I'd say it's a sort of cross-species Apache dance - like La Valse Chaloupée.

Never Been [flash] A year in the life of a fictional late 19th century Eastern European Village.

Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World. A photographic exhibition by Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy.

Hubert's Freaks - This is the story of Bob Langmuir, a brilliant but troubled rare-book dealer whose headlong pursuit of an archive from a 1960s Times Square freak show leads to the discovery of a trove of hitherto unknown photographs by the great American genius Diane Arbus.

Cities sans signage make for the creepy look. [via]

Can Scientists Dance? After watching Simone Recchi's "Dynamical and chemical evolution of blue compact dwarf galaxies", I tend towards NO.

Promenade dans la rue Raymond Ridel au travers sa numérotation Featuring - 5, 11, 13, 14, 14BIS, 15, 18, 18TER, 18, 20, 21, 22, 22bis, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, 34, 39 37, 38, 39 BIS, 40, 42, 44, 41, 43, 49, 58, 60, 59, 63, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 76, 81, 82-84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 110, 112, 118bis, 111, 113, 115, 117, 120. With xylophone and violin. How French is that!

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

30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards - Seasonal kitsch.

Mr Cormorant [flash] - Just sits by the lake. Faster, faster! [earworm] more inside

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) hijacks cellular machinery [disturbing pictures and video]. more inside

Flow while you wait for Spore.

Schapelle Corby Tours - Surely this can't be for real. more inside

So there you are, just enjoying a nice day out kayaking.

Today in Science History. Short paragraphs (most with links) chronicling the day in science. more inside

Slime control - What's bright yellow, slimy, several metres in diameter, hides in dark, moist, humid places, responds to food sources by moving towards and engulfing them? Oh! and has just been given six legs by engineers. Physarum polycephalum