Alexander Graham Bell Notebooks Project. Liquid transmitters, plumbago experiments, and flame galvanometers. Now it makes me wish my poor lab notebook had way cool hand drawn diagrams too.

International Adoption is a hotter topic than I thought when I started the process 17 months ago. Did you know that some people want to outlaw all adoptions? Those people are often more than a bit strident, but the pain they express deserves some attention. The adoption community has responded by developing open-adoption, which is becoming the norm for domestic adoptions. For international adoptions, the move is toward developing a sense of cultural awareness for our children, instead of continuing the old-school "melting pot" approach. more inside

Curious George: Traditional Irish and Scottish Music Two things. more inside

It's disease-errific! It's the Malady of the Month; this month's is Dermoid Cysts, which "...have to rank as one of the creepiest things that can happen to a girl...result from a very independent (or confused) egg thinking that it can develop on its own with only half of its own genetic material..." more inside

Who's the luckiest monkey at the zoo? Of questionable taste. (NSFW, especially if your boss is a primate) If this was most any place else, I wouldn't have submitted it.

Curious George: Finding rural DSL coverage. We may be buying some rural land. Is there any definitive way (besides dslreports) to see whether it gets DSL service? more inside

Tell people about the leaks in your new home. Get sued. Apparently this company decided that, rather than build a house with a roof that didn't leak, they would sue people who complained about it. more inside

I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives! is an ultrainteractive Kung-fu remixer. Pick some background music, and start fighting. When your Kung-fu is strong record it and play it back.

Diet not working? Maybe you need a dog. Man's best friend is also man's best diet buddy. more inside

Monkeys of the past I'm working on a project which involves some sort of shocked, (actually, shock over the stress and rhythm of english) but I'd like to use some 50s-era accents to spice it up. I figure the emotion of shock is best expressed by a 50s housewife who has just discovered a new brand of detergent, or something along those lines. So, does anyone know where there'd be a nice treasure trove of various 50s stock photographs, or advertisements or something like that?

Celebrity stapler auction action! Staplers from movie stars, sports celebs, media personalities... is this weird or what?

Rat Out a Church.org - Know of a church that uses the pulpit to spew radical politics? Tired of going to church only to hear a priest tell you how to vote? Rat 'em out!

Chronic pain kills your brain. New research from Northwestern University suggests chronic back pain can kill off brain cells that are involved in decision-making and movement. The damage may or may not be permanent. As a guy with a partially slipped disc myself, suffice it to say this news didn't make my day.

Chocolate is a more effective cough medicine than codeine. I knew it all along. Imperial press release. You can't see the paper on-line without a subscription, but here is the impenetrable abstract. more inside

Lassie—Get the Oncologist! (via the sadly under-appreciated Discover Magazine)

The Gorilla Comic Cover Index - Ok, the guy indexes every comic cover he can find that includes a picture of an ape or gorilla. Quite a collection.

SMASH the prostitution racket! Dancing is Eeeevil: Dangers in familiarity and so is prostitution: Men who say no are the only good men. Other American Social Hygiene Posters (via JWZ)

Bar Code Quest I'm looking for a cost effective Bar Code solution for the self produced CDs I've put out. more inside

watch paper "a fully functional clock that is printed onto ordinary paper". There's a QT movie at the site.

Is this the real reason Aquafina bottles have that wide mouth?