10 things you don't know about Hubble.

Alvin... the true story you kids can ignore this...and get off my lawn!

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect. [Via]

Galactic Centre in 10E9 pixelly goodness.

Shagged by a parrot SFW, mild bestiality - a slow Monday doesn't get any better than this.

A brewery in a Muslim country.

The biggest hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found has been located by a metal detectorist. Other links. And in other news, a mini Stonehenge has also been found, a find described as important. more inside

A brief view of Anne Frank on film.

Running dog proxies launch attack! Information Warfare Monitor reports People's Republic of China 60th Anniversary Celebration besmirched by new zero-date malware embedded pdf documents sent to journalists by running dog hackers, thinly veiled by proxys located on school computers in Taiwan (sic) R.O.C. That is all.

Unccl DQnl. Gb lbh.

Spider silk tapestry. They wove a tapestry from spider silk. Now on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Spider. Silk. really. caution for the phobic: links contain images of spiders

Rock. IGneous rock. *internal voice adopting James Bond kinda voiceover here*

A moving series of blog posts. Craig is an accomplished fisherman, a wonderful writer, and a faithful dog lover, whose best friend was his Golden Retriever, Drake. For the past month or so, Drake has been struggling with a brain tumor. This is Craig's blog about this ordeal. Read it from the bottom, have the tissues ready, and spend the rest of the evening petting someone with four feet.

Unplanned Freefall: Survival Tips. Etiquette for those awkward moments when there's 30,000 feet between you and civilization. Brought to you by the Freefall Research Page. Fallen from a great height? They want to hear about it.

The only woman in the French Foreign Legion

Who needs topsoil anyway?

Mouse steals leopard's lunch. Leopard is puzzled.

The Fox was a folk hero who made a positive environmentalist impact while causing fear in the halls of corporate polluters. Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Royko, syndicated columnist for The Chicago Daily News, was one of many who denied that The Fox was an eco-terrorist. Royko's FBI file was 86 pages long, so not everyone agreed. more inside

Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings.

I will not read your fucking script. Really. I will not read it on a dare I will not read it for a scare