Gah! Husband keeps sending me creepy films today. more inside

The artwork of Jacek Yerka. I'd really like to visit some of these places one day. more inside

Curious George: Motorcycle Helmets Hey motor monkeys, I got a question. I just got a bike, and a shiny new helmet. It's a Fulmer modular flip-face. I couldn't find anything online about weather they offer as good of protection in a crash as a standard full face. Anyone here know? Any opinions in general?

You kids get outta my airplane! Schnell! Airbus A380 evacuation - 873 people in 77 seconds (YouTube). Worth watching for the music and crazy Germans alone.

Images from the Museo de las Momias in Guanajuato. Rather disturbing images. Some backstory. Some more backstory. More (equally disturbing) images here and here. more inside

Crime Boss Crime comic books from the 40s and 50s

Password: MONKEY We're number six!!!!

Exquisite sea slugs - such variety! more inside

the french hate themselves even more than we do ...I knew it.

I am 8-Bit (2007) 80s video game inspired art

Jersey wants a national anthem and has launched a competition to find one. Besides the theme tune from Bergerac, the main serious contenders are Ma Normandie(mp3) and Hedley Le Maistre's Jersey, mon vie. more inside

Eli Lilly And Company Introduces Reconcile(TM) For Separation Anxiety In Dogs.

Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. William Shakespeare Clever Ravens - Masters of Deceit more inside

Acrobots!

The Sea Organ - a coastal installation at Zadar, Croatia, designed by architect Nikola Bašić. It plays strangely beautiful music with the aid of the Mediterranean Ocean, wind, some polyethylene tubes and a resonating chamber. Sample.

Work in literature. "Joshua Ferris, author of an acclaimed debut about office life, goes in search of the workaday world in American literature." From the U.K. Guardian. If you're gonna turn off your TV this week, you'll likely be reading more than normal. Might as well read the literature Ferris looks at, like Bartleby the Scrivener (setting: 19th century Wall Street), Kafka's The Metamorphosis, The Great Gatsby, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road, and George Saunders's Pastoralia.

Fun at Home with Salt Water Aquariums. Fun, fun, fun 'till a 6-foot nocturnal worm starts eating your coral.

Remember kids - dogs go "bark", sheep go "baaa" more inside

"We are not starting a party because we have an ideology...a vision for a better Bhutan. We are starting a party because the king has ordered us." Democracy is coming to Bhutan by royal fiat.

TV Turnoff Week! Previously! Also! And here! A week to turn off your TV (and computer?) in order to better understand what role TV plays in our daily lives. more inside