Hog Heaven: Celebrating 100 Years of the Harley-Davidson. "In 1903, the same year Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company and the Wright brothers first flew, William Harley and his friends Arthur and Walter Davidson launched the Harley-Davidson Motor Company." more inside

Weightless Animals. Sonic space cartoons. Made from meetings with astronauts and NASA archives by Mandy McIntosh, Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins, programming by Simon Yuill. (Flash, but beautiful. Needs sound, too) more inside

Budding Track Designers With the 1st Middle East located Formula 1 Grand Prix being held in Bahrainthis weekend. Build your own track and then emulate Schumacher.

Curious George: New Users We've have a pretty noticeable influx of new users in the last week or so. As new folks probably weren't around to notice the last times we had a round of introductions, I say it's about time for another one. So how 'bout it, new monkeys? Let's have a short who, what, and where session. Who are you? What do you want to get out of MoFi? Where are you?

More countries' visitors to the USA to be photographed & fingerprinted This is for all non-USians: forget about privacy, and the fear of just how safe and who has access to that data, and whether it really helps security; will this affect your decision over holiday and business travel? How will the vacation and convention industries react to this? more inside

Kaneda model power bike! Ok yes, I'm a big geek and I was in Japan for the opening of Akira way back in '88 so this has a special place in my heart, but even if it didn't, this motorcycle is damn cool. For the Japanese impaired, it breaks down like this: Twin-steering system and 249-998cc water-cooled 4-cycle engine, onboard DVD navigation system and full LED readouts (tach, spedometer, etc...) No price yet, but hey I figure the line won't be as long as the one for the Tokyo Apple store was =) (originally seen at /.)

Oh the pain It's certainly expensive A bit maudlin Shared Sometimes controversial Studied Anthropomorphized Sought and a moral dilemna.

Filter me balls, matey! An amusing way to while away a Saturday afternoon.

The Self-Mummified Buddhist Monks of Japan
The Yamagata prefecture of Japan is home to several temples that house the Buddhist mummies of Japan. These mountain-dwelling ascetic priests of the Shingon sect of the Dewa Sazan voluntarily underwent a long process of slow, painful suicide to mummify themselves in an attempt to break the cycle of rebirth. Meet Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai Shonin of the Dainichi-bo temple and read one blogger

Railgun Blog

The Mi'kmaq: Nova Scotia's dominant aboriginal population (with representation in Newfoundland and Quebec). Learn how to speak their language with a talking dictionary, (toboggan and wigwam are both borrowed words from the Mi'kmaq language), browse portraits from the 1500s to the present, discover their distinctive decorative techniques of porcupine quills on birchbark, and marvel at the fact that the biggest shopping centre in Halifax is still called Mic Mac Mall. more inside

Star Wars Ep II with hand puppets! Uh, the concept is funnier than the actual site.

Curious George: Whither MeFi? So either you got signed up, didn't, don't want to but the option is there. What will (or would) you do now?

Random Acts of Reality has always been a good read. Written by a London EMT, it's a consistently interesting glimpse inside the ambulance. Recently, though, it's become even more compelling. It started when the site's author lived out every healthcare workers' fear. (Warning: unpleasant medical details inside) more inside

The Amazing Beer-O-Matic! Incredibly sophisticated technology tells you how many pints or bottles you'd have to quaff to drink your weight in beer. Happy Friday!

Curious, George: Hey good looking, wanna swap? more inside

Magnetic Poetry! Choose from 10 different kits and go bananas!

The Basis of the American Republic from "An Outline of American Government". With all this talk about the constitution and patriotism maybe it would be a good idea for us to all do some readin' more inside

The 48 Hour Film Project , an international filmmaking competition where teams have just two days to make a short film from scratch, is back and bigger than ever -- and they're recruiting filmmakers in cities around the world. So, call your friends, grab a camera and hold on for a wild weekend of movie making.

Friday Flash Math Fun