Jiggaboo Jones (NSFW-language in most of these links.) Cheating at dice, cheating at cards, mugging, and hotwiring. Jiggaboo Jones is an urban legend.

Eccentricity.

The people who make these decisions for the internet have announced new top-level domains for next year, including .tel, .jobs and .CAT Can you imagine the battle next year to get the domain name "LOL.CAT"?

Fine Chocolates (nsfw)

DO Try This At Home! (youtube) Mr. G is not exactly Mr. Wizard but he will teach you to make a strike-anywhere match gun, defy gravity with forks and a drinking glass, and build a 9V "tazer".

"My cow has two noses." "How does she smell?" "Terrible." more inside

Zagat the noted rater of upscale food, lowers its sights as it rates the major US food chains. No Cheesecake Factory or In and Out Burger though.

Another treasured childhood myth destroyed. Researchers officially debunk the five-second rule. If they come after the cootie shot, I'm going to get seriously ticked off.

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New Computer Program to Reassemble Shredded Stasi Files Shredded documents are now deshreddable thanks to an ambitious young computer programme from the Fraunhofer Institute, adding another brick in the wall that holds back our civilization's ability to forget. Will there soon be no way to escape the data panopticon?

Taking the Local out of Local Reporting A Pasadena, CA website is now outsourcing their local news reporting to India. Apparently saving money by having people report from half a world away will raise the quality of their journalism?

Tales of the Plush Cthulhu

A tribute to Gilles Villeneuve. It was twenty-five years ago that the racing legend was killed during qualifying at Zolder.

Save Pooky! A charming adventure game - puzzles to solve and keys to find. From Wortel Drie, a Netherlands site that has lots of interesting stuff. Via Ample Sanity

Mickey Mouse lookalike directs kids to fight the U.S. and Israel more inside

Gaelic psalm singing Yale music professor Willie Ruff thinks it might be the roots of gospel music in America. Whatever the truth of that, it's one of the most glorious sounds on God's good earth, a profound spiritual happening.

Harsh Words Die Hard on the Web The US law-school-related blog AutoAdmit contains message boards that are reportedly "essentially, a massive toilet of racism and sexism". Said message boards are suspected in preventing some women, otherwise well-qualified, from getting high-profile legal jobs after they were allegedly maligned, objectified, and even threatened therein. The message board's "Chief Education Director"also had a pending job offer rescinded, following publicity of these incidents. Defending the message board's activities as Free Speech proved ineffective relevant to the rescinded job offer. Some say, "Cry me a river." What do You think? via BlueAdmit

Photos by Denis Darzacq.

Map of online communities and related points of interest on genius webcomic xkcd. (previously) Kind of like the map you find at the beginning of a doorstop-sized fantasy book; maybe this should be the first page of the Web? more inside

Curious George: Newsfilter Horrific crime committed in Tennesee. For Monkeys who live out there, they may have heard of it, as it happened in January. I, for one, am honestly surprised that this hasn't gone national. more inside