Curious George: What're the last 5 books you've read? Please to be revealing the Tom Clancys as well as the Tom Pynchons, the Jackie Collinses as well as the Jack Kerouacs.

Yellowstone National Park spans three huge calderas and sits atop one of the largest super volcanoes in the world. more inside

Walkscore How walkable is your neighbourhood? more inside

Britain supports the torture and killing of homosexuals The foreign office will deport lesbian Pegah Emambakhsh to Iran, after her request for asylum has been rejected. What awaits her in her home country?

Art. 127 to 134 relate to lesbian sexual relations. Punishment for sexual intercourse among lesbians is 100 lashes and in case of recidivity (3 times) execution.
— Home Office, Iran Operational Guidance, 27 February 2007.

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Alberto Gonzales Resigns: A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

The "Verbs Bad" Manifesto - After much debate, conclusion inevitable: verbs bad! snarfled from blort

T.S. Eliot vs. Portishead.

The great Iraq swindle or How Bush Sold US Out to His Buddies just going to steal it direct from The Blue more inside

FLUBBER or FLABBER? More akin to blubber. And what do they mean by, "in a male-friendly way."? "Be gentle with me Maybelle," he quavered.

A long-standing mystery over the way men's skulls changed from long to round in medieval Europe has been deepened by discoveries at a Yorkshire village.

How to Make a Goldfish Live for Decades

Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11

A wounded WW2 Czech insurgent finds a weird structure in a cave. "Crawling through & still kneeling, I froze in amazement - there stands something like a large, black silo, framed in white. Regaining breath I thought that this is a bizarre, natural wall or curtain of black salt, or ice, or lava. But... it is a glass-smooth flank of a seemingly man-made structure which reaches into the rocks on all sides. Beautifully, cylindrically curved it indicates a huge body with a diameter of about 25 meters." Odd.

This Modern World, Animated! (2 embedded YouTubes) Sparky and Blinky the Very Nice Dog come to life -- along with Zombie Reagan, mutant owls, and Alan Greenspan the pet iguana. more inside

Braaaaaiiins in the Age of Egyptian Mummies. [Via MH.]

Former U.S. military commander says elites hide from humanity knowledge and contact with many Extraterrestrial civilizations - and that there are possibly hundreds of cultures visiting Earth. Why do these UFO disclosure people always look like this guy?

Please help me name all the sexual innuendos that appear in this awesome commercial from New Zealand! I've gotten stuck on at least two: the dog in the tub of water? And is that a boar's head with a sword in its mouth? I'm certain I am missing more. (Also, I hope this isn't a double post--I did my best to search for it beforehand.)

Vladimir Putin, you're so dreamy!

Castro no more. Unconfirmed. What happens when the strong man goes?

Wily Canadians Launch Sub-Orbital Nikon - SABLE-3 was launched on Saturday, August 11th, 2007, at 9:31 AM with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS Tracker, that the Kaysam 1200 gram balloon carried to over 117,597 feet. Beauty pics eh?