Nicaragua Abortion Policy Blog post on how women are dying in Nicaragua because the Daniel Ortega is appeasing the Catholic Church by allowing no abortions. Even when the woman's life is at risk.

Dinosaurs! that look an awful lot like elephants. The servant of the Lord is currently planning a new trip to the Congo, to bring back pterosaurs. Oh, and Let's Shut Down Landover Baptist, because it makes Baby Jesus cry. (Get your Baby Jesus Anti-Fornication Thong here!) more inside

The wittiest Brit. Glaring omission: the quidnunc kid. So, monkeys, who's on your list of the funniest folks ever, Brit or otherwise?

Indexed. Graphs, Venn diagrams, and charts of everything important in life. On index cards. Just look at it. [via 43 Folders]

Classic cafes - fast disappearing, but celebrated in this excellent site. See also. more inside

Probably NSFW. This Russian music video is absolutely batshit. Pickle costumes, fursuits and a clone of Sir Nose all combine to make a surrealistic and incomprehensible video.

LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is? more inside

Graveyards of Illinois is where we start our small tour of cemeteries and funerary art. To our left is Bohemian National Cemetery with its beautiful domed chapel, Odd Fellows Monument, and larger-than-life statuary. Another impressive Illinois graveyard is Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, known for its obelisks and its Masonic connections. more inside

Incredible horse, amazing horsemanship De Orpheo a Merlin de Rafi a Pablo The most beautiful horse in the world more inside

A weblog about sexy witches.

66 celebrities who blog. But who cares about them when we have Mr Stephen Fry pontificating at truly inordinate length?

Long time, no see A farmer in Shaanxi has photographed a wild South China Tiger. Feared extinct in the wild, it's the first time since 1964 one of the rare beasts has been spotted.

Fear.net has made the move from reviewing and providing clips of horror movies into making their own. Their first effort, Devil's Trade, is complete, and offered for free online. It tells the tale of a cross made from pieces of a cursed tree, and the effect of the curse on the current owner of the cross. The current project is 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails, a tale of vampires in New Orleans. Episode 6 just recently premiered. more inside

How mother moose outwits the bear - Pregnant moose seek out human company when they are about to give birth, to escape the threat of bears. From the Beeb & Biology Letters.

Sweet Land of Liberty (short video) (NSF non-Americans)

Strange Horizons is a weekly webzine of speculative fiction, including short stories, articles, art galleries, reviews, and poetry. The 'zine is published every Monday. It was founded in 2000, and has extensive archives to peruse. Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, a quarterly magazine, maintains an online archive of articles, short fiction, interviews, and reviews from past issues. Their area of interest is primarily dark sci-fi and horror. more inside

For Some, a Little Raison D'Etre A lovely story about a long-running French class.

Dangerous Graffiti Vandal Apprehended Age: 6 - Medium: Chalk - Punishment: $300 fine

Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Some suspect the insectlike drones are high-tech surveillance tools, perhaps deployed by the Department of Homeland Security...No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.

Do you know the way to San Jose? I found this googling for map images for an animation I am going to do in after effects. Wow. Maps of every age, location and description.