Let's do the time warp again - it's just a carriage return...to the left...and the typewriters don't have a 1. more inside

Got an unrepentant Keith Olbermann fan on your gift list? Get them an award given to KO when he was a local radio sportscaster 25 years ago. more inside

Is this the world's most bike-friendly city? Sadly, it was just a demonstration with a junk luxury car [oxymoron alert!] not an actual illegal parker.

Chimpanzee bottle feeds tiger cubs at Thai zoo.

AT LAST! Or AT LOST! A cutting-room floor clip from "Lost", shown at San Diego Comic-Con, that, if it had aired, would've answered most of the Big Questions in the first season, including one that was NEVER answered.

Chinese take counterfeiting to the next level.

Neptune - one year on.

Flying Spaghetti Monster worshipers win victory.

Gynandromorph

Whump - see also more inside

Floppy disks - you're too late

Zoobotics: A new generation of animal-like robots is about to emerge from the laboratory.

Shutter-happy monkey turns photographer.

Summer wildfires are drawing near Lthe birthplace of the atomic bomb. The Los Alamos National Laboratory, built as Site Y of the Manhattan Project, is today used for research, including weapons engineering. The town of Los Alamos has been evacuated and the lab temporarily closed. Some pictures of the lividly lit skies on the lab's Flickr page. more inside

Oh Baby... California Lieutenant Governor, ex-San Francisco Mayor and Outspoken Gay Marriage Supporter Gavin Newsom just announced that his wife has given birth to their second child. Backdating, that would put the conception right in the heat of the campaign that got him elected. Now THAT's the kind of political sex story I can get behind.

Empty trash. Buy milk. Forge history. To trace the great arcs of civilization, historians tap the humble list.

Meat Glue . The meat industry's dirty little secret From Australia's Today Tonight program: "The industry-wide secret butchers don't want you to know about: the special product called Meat Glue sticking your steak together." Banned by the European Union, Meat Glue remains legal in Australia — and the U.S. (disgusting SLYT)

A description of the Joplin tornado by an ER doctor who was on duty at St. John's Hospital when it was hit. more inside

I'm calling out homunculus . With 580 links, and being the most regular (and creative) poster we've been lately fortunate to have, I think we need to give our homunculus three monkey cheers. I, for one, welcome our appreciate the effort Our Guy puts forth! Pop Tarts! Pop Tarts! Yeah!

The story behind the world's oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago.