Curious, George: Noise. What's with the proliferation of subwoofer bass? Seems five years ago I hardly heard it; nowadays I can't go a day without getting bone-jarring doses. A Google search on the issue turns up very little, nobody I know seems to care, and I know cops & city hall aren't concerned. Lately I've wondered if I've become hypersensitive after living in a quiet rural area from 2000-2003. I want to ask fellow MoFi'ers: How is the noise where you live?

Take the final exam for the University of Georgia course 'Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball'. Just another sports scandal, or the ultimate Internet Quiz?

Led Zeppelin - The Satanic Message in Stairway to Heaven. (Flash) more inside

FBI Guide To Concealable Weapons

Reynols. The first reaction one might have on hearing of the escapades of the Argentinean group Reynols is one of open-mouthed incredulity. Quite apart from the mythical status that group members Alan Courtis and Roberto Conlazo have conferred on their drummer, 39 year old Miguel Tomasin, who suffers from Down's Syndrome (though, as we shall see, "suffers" is not a word Conlazo and Courtis would accept to describe Tomasin's extraordinary abilities and sense of reality), these are the guys whose first album was a "dematerialised CD" - i.e. an empty CD box - and who were nearly arrested by the local police for plugging their guitars into a pumpkin and not playing in public. more inside

You don't have Mojo Nixon to kick around any more. After twenty years of seeing Elvis everywhere, gonzobilly rocker Mojo Nixon retires. more inside

TV & Film Locations for Poltergeist, Back to the Future, Amityville Horror, Seinfeld, and more. Did you know Starfleet Headquarters is actually a Japanese garden? Does anyone know of any other similar sites like this that highlight popular locations from the movies?

I read this on MeFi and thought we could all have a scratch of self satisfaction. This certainly illustrates how low they can go and what we can studiously avoid.

More comic book/movie geekitude. But you gotta admit the trailer for the new film by Enki Bilal looks pretty awesome. Blue nipples!

Brought to you by the makers of 'Spongemonkey's' Looks to be a precursor to those Quiznos cuties. more inside

Don't view this one first thing in the morning. Scary tribute to the not so photogenic ladies (and I use that term loosely) out there. Probably NSFW, and turn your speakers down. more inside

OMFG d00d2 j00 n33d 70 ch3ck 0u7 73h l337 v3r510n 0f h4ml37. Translation: Oh my fucking God dudes you need to check out the 'leet' version of hamlet. There's a long pointless introduction, and the actual "play" is about 15 minutes, but I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! [direct link needs Quicktime]

Doctors Choosing Patients.

Making Friends

Pongling
ADD-ictive.

The Found Objects community at LiveJournal is my latest timesink. The Old Skool Starbucks logo, complete with semi-naked mermaid, made my day. Alas, what initially caught my eye was Kaba Kick. Russian roulette for kids!

Korean Poop Toon. Holy crap! Dunno how to describe this.. uh.. it's got dancing grubs of some sort, a very ky00t tune with high pitched singing, and lots of (fake) turds which reveal their origins. It even shows how the animators made the fake turds at the end. FLASH animation - SFW I think, unless the boss is looking over your shoulder & your volume is up too loud (it's in Korean). Snarfled from Random-Abstract

MonkeyDigest #1 Ripe Bananas more inside

How does 4000 frames per second sound to you? Sounds mighty fine to me. more inside

Woman finds fingertip in salad CNN offbeat news reports with photo , that a woman in Ohio discovered a fingertip in her salad at a local burger joint. Can anyone spot it?? Maybe I'm blind, or need to eat more bananas, but I can't spot it.