Curvers for Choice: Curves, a women-only gym, is the largest and fastest growing gym franchise in the world with over 7,000 fitness centers. And most of those centers are women owned. So it makes for interesting politics when Gary Heavin, the founder and CEO of Curves was outed for being anti-choice. As the news has swept the Web, and main stream news outlets have picked up the story, many pro-choice women are faced with a dilemma- to boycott or not to boycott. Or perhaps fight fire with fire and make donations to pro-choice organizations like Planned Parenthood in Curves or Gary Heavins name. more inside

Strap this baby onto your bicycle (or, ok, on your R/C airplane if you must) and step into the spage age. A real jet engine that is 5 inches in diameter, uses real Jet-A fuel, and can be yours for $2795.

With Text Monkey's help, no more ugly e-mail!

Virtual Sea Monkeys - (FLASH) This contains nothing naughty, no big download, it's fun (debateable: somewhat as much as real Sea Monkeys..) safe for work, and it has 'monkey' in the title. You see? more inside

Tanks for Sale Thinking of buying a new car? Don't. Get a T72 tank, a OT810 halftrack, or even a Vzor 77 DANA self-propelled gun.

Bogdan Raczynski
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What Should I Put On The Fence?

E3 2004 has wrapped up. So, I just want to open a thread discussing where the video game currently stands as an artform. more inside

"more thinking and less shooting"

Bush Approval Rating at 41% According to CBS News, George W. Bush's approval rating with the American people is now at 41%. It seems the bad news coming out of Iraq with the prison abuse scandal have taken their toll. Iraq was once an issue Bush polled stongly.

Independent voters seem to have been especially affected. Overall, 49 percent of registered voters now say they would vote for Kerry, 41 percent for Bush.

Preserving the Movie Palaces. The Soul-less Cineplex hasn't killed off ALL of these Glorious Gals----YET! Browse through this lovingly-constructed database to rekindle old memories and preserve new ones... more inside

"Orthodox Quaker Oatmeal Cookies are tasty." said Jesus, as he stood in front of the snack machine.

ZzzzZZZzzzap. See what happens when a power company rigs up a failure on a 500 kV power line.

Oh that Chalabi. What a rascal.

The Jesus Landing Pad. Bush administration alters mideast policy to correctly align with second-coming-of-you-know-who. . . . they object on the grounds that all of Old Testament Israel belongs to the Jews. Until Israel is intact and Solomon's temple rebuilt, they believe, Christ won't come back to earth. more inside

Curious George: Ever lived on a commune? Communes or intentional communities have been around for a long time and have fascinated me from a distance. East Wind just celebrated thirty years (Via BoingBoing) and it's one of quite a few that I didn't know were thriving. Anybody had direct experience with something like this? more inside

Curious George: Why all the photos? I asked this question in this thread but thought I'd cast a wider net. Why are there SO many photos of the Iraq prisoner abuse that occured at Abu Ghraib? more inside

The web shredder

Andy Kaufman is still dead. Your weird press release update.

Curious George: So how old are you really? a comment from languagehat made me realize that some of my perceptions on the age range here are a wee bit off - for some reason i tend to assume that most people here are around the same age as me, which more often than not turns out to be untrue. so, in an effort to get a more accurate picture of the age range, without actually being indelicate enough to just bluntly ask for the number, please give me a clue, like, say, an important world event that happened when you were in high school, or some such. come on, spill it... more inside