Missile Defence - thanks but no thanks Seems like Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's been flaunting some massive cojones lately. Now it's rumoured he'll have the audacity to change his mind on a hot-button campaign issue and tell Bush off on his missile defence plan that costs a lot, makes the global political climate worse, and just plain doesn't work. With any luck, anyway.

"I am writing this letter (you may need to adjust your browser's text size) in protest of the perverse travesty I have suffered at the hands of Mr. Bradley in the form of the horribly unjust "F" grade he has given me for last semester in his complete fraud of a class, World History 101." more inside

Curious George: How to find a lost sister. I can't find my sister, who was last heard from in Mississippi (where, presumably, she lives) a month & a half ago. My dad and I are seriously considering putting out a missing persons report if we don't hear from her by Saturday. I'm trying to find her before that happens, but my google-fu is failing me, and since I only have a few names and no phone numbers, google's all I've got. more inside

"Lejo's simple but unique puppets consist of nothing more than his bare hands and a pair of wooden eyes." For fans of The Muppets and Señor Wences. more inside

(sex) Toy Robots

The Saga of Lt. Ilario Pantano An American Soldier who has be charged with premeditated murder for an incident that happened more than a year ago. An incident in which he was cleared for by his battlefield commanders. Is this Justice? Or is the government using him to try and placate critics of the war?

The Secret Gospel of Mark? For all of your Indiana Jones/Umberto Eco conspiracy theory needs. more inside

Gifts for: a sick bastard, a vain bastard, a baby bastard, your bastard ex. Who says Design is Dead? more inside

Curious George: Office Politics for Dummies You get a new job, and make your first mistake in the office. It's difficult to assess if it was a major mistake or not, because instead of rationally discussing it with you, your new boss sends you a very nasty email, and copies 2 higher-ups on it. What do you do? more inside

Collecting

Meet Python Pete and his incredibly large constrictor. "He's another tool in our toolbox." Completely SFW.

How much do the good people of Island Records despise their cash cows and themselves? more inside

Hunter S. Thompson's ashes to be shot out of a cannon If the Thompson job were his, Williams said, he would probably blast the ashes from a 12-inch-diameter mortar 800 feet into the sky. Then a second, window-rattling blast would scatter them amid a blossom of color 600 feet across. "If you were going to light up a flash-bomb worthy of Hunter S. Thompson, you'd want to make it an earth-shaker," Williams said.

Einstein@Home Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. more inside

300 Love Letters I'm writing three hundred love letters and sending them to strangers. The letters are going to be glued to the outside of the envelopes, so that the mailman, and presumably whoever the recipient lives with, will be able to see and read them. The letters aren't to the strangers, they're to people I know. Everybody I wrote a letter to has his or her own color [1] [2] [3]

Common errors in English. Can never remember whether it's imply or infer? Love to be a nit-picking pedant? Then this is the site for you. Detailed explanations of common mistakes people make when dealing with the English Language.

Oldskool new school more inside

/lazy This cartoon sums it up best. Now you can order pizza while playing Everquest II. more inside

A Flash animation sketching the female body from the skeleton out. (Might be NSFW if you consider a few seconds of drawn female nudity to be so.)

Last moments of Tsnuami victims caught by camera. A local (Vancouver, Canada) couple went missing during the tragedy and were later found dead. Recently, the memory card from their wrecked digital camera was found by a relief worker, from Seattle. The card contains pictures of the last moments before the tsnuami hit Thailand. If there is a sliver lining in this story, it's that their sons know they were together at the end. more inside