A previously unrecognised Daguerrotype Portrait of the Young Abraham Lincoln has been identified, apparently. The image previously thought to be the earliest of Lincoln is from around 1848 when he was 39, but the new image seems to show a ten-years younger "handsome, aristocratic, and tastefully groomed" Lincoln... or someone who happened to look just like him. But it has been authenticated by a cranial expert. Well, a neurologist/psychiatrist. more inside

Rivers Cuomo's Harvard Application Essay With funny fanboy comments.

Forget the Citation Index. You can now simply cast your vote for the best scientist. The list of nominees includes Doctor Strangelove, Mr Spock and Doctor Frankenstein.

Busted! German teen discovered to be the originator of 70% of computer viruses in the world. A lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief. Seems someone turned in Sven Jaschan for the $250k reward Microsoft® is offering. Will the Brits use this as another reason to hate the Germans?

The Science of Getting Rich. Certainly not scientific, and probably not what you are expecting. Capitalist mysticism? Alas, the other titles by the wonderfully named Wallace D. Wattles, such as The Science of Well-Being and The Science of Being Excellent, are not available on-line.

Monkeehub. This is where babies jam animations are made. [Flash, via Milk and Cookies.]

Sex Slave You've seen the action figure. Now see the making of a hero.

Looptracks. (Flash?) I was addicted for an hour straight. Via Yahoo, of all places.

There is a place in Spain that is the ideal spot to watch a bullfight for the first time... I a referring to the town of Ronda. -Ernest Hemmingway [nsfw]

Going places you're not supposed to go. Toronto drain tunnels and beyond!

Spider-Man reviews crayons - It's just silly and it's not even Friday.

. : The Living Room Candidate : . The American Museum of the Moving Image has an interesting online exhibit of 250 or so campaign commercials from 1952 (Ike had the first) to 2004. [You may view them at multiple resolutions in either Real or WMA format]

HomeRun! (Flash game, SFW, unless you get in trouble for arranging impromptu tournements with your coworkers, ahem) more inside

What the hell? more inside

Slightly obscure music news. Holy flibberty gibbet! Slint are back! more inside

Maggots are making a medical comeback and Dr. Maggot is leading the charge. Maggots and leeches have been approved by the FDA as medical "devices." more inside

Ashcroft orders public libraries to destroy law books via BoingBoing

We're living longer than ever, and the population of elderly is about to double. But Stanford researchers say our approach to aging is stuck in a time warp. [Via WorldChanging.]

We demand to know what race she is. President Bush's re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney. A tale of security, racial-profiling, a new status quo? more inside

No Pity. No Shame. No Silence. "I wondered for a moment what it would look like if just for one day, everyone who had survived sexual violence were visible as a survivor, if we could actually see the extent of it, if we could all know just how very not-alone we are. I wondered how angry and sad it would make me to know. I wondered how much power there might be in the truth." more inside