24 hours of minutes The Los Angeles County Museum is showing a 24-hour film in which the minutes tick by in real time, while the audience sees clocks or watches from movies and television. It starts Monday at 11 AM and ends Tuesday at AM. LACMA is keeping the café open all night to serve the moviegoers. more inside

In Today's Society, Are You Master of Your Own Skin? Having found a publisher's proof copy of The Yankee Way to Simplify Your Life, which principles I'm trying to apply to my own life (up to a point), there is a reference to spanking children with books bound by the flayed flesh of criminals. Not popular today. But looking into it, I was led to the Boston Athenium for the story of the referenced highwayman who claimed to be "master of his own skin," thence on his way to become the book binding on his confession... But it turns out that not only criminals observed the practice. The Athenium link also notes that a famous beautiful lady had her skin put up on a treatise of astronomy. More on such practices here.

Vegan FAIL

Moire weird stuff from Japan Wearable brain-wave controlled cosplay cat ears. Meow!

I do NOT SEE anything to worry about!

But it need not be taken seriously any longer, its deputies merely providing the House with amusement when they indulge in their fantastic outbursts.

Portal Tetris proves that sometimes putting two cool things together is not the best idea.

The monkeytail beard: the hipness of the goatee in 1993 without any of the social acceptance.

Visit Abbey Road and watch tourists reenact the ever-so-famous album cover with great schadenfreude (if that's your thing).

If I told you Keyboard Cat had a band and they're pretty good, what would you say? "HOLY F***!" more inside

Curious, George: Old blog of superhero battle back-&-forth. I recall a wonderful blog in which two cartoon artists went back-and-forth conquering the previous day's superhero. For example maybe one day "Spike Hand Man" would beat the previous day's "Waterbed Man," and then the next day "Marshmellow Body Man" would beat "Spike Hand Man," and so forth. My Google-fu has failed me!

There's new courseware up at Open Yale Courses There's lots of open courseware out there, but Yale's is the most complete. Just today (or maybe yesterday), nine new courses were posted. more inside

An infinite number of monkeys with typewriters (Monkius typeriterus) . That is all.

What to do when your pilot gets sucked out the window . The Story of BA 5390 mostly repeat, but with additional photos Old newsfilter, but still interesting if you missed the first go-round

Les Bubb's Mutant Mime Act, with dashes of prop comedy, illusions, lip syncing and influences from Bill Irwin to Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean to Howie ("no, not the rubber glove!!") Mandel. Some repetition among the 4 clips but still a lot of fun. (recommended by Evanier)

This may be a valuable tool for that new CSS3 webstuff. Or not.

Death, or Near Death? Hospice care for my daughter was a good way to improve her recent passing - hopefully helping her toward some kind of afterlife. But the near death experience alone was beautiful in its own way, and has been documented by many others (Previously).

God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible -- Almost. God's wife, Asherah, was a powerful fertility goddess, according to a theologian.

RSA Animate - The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? "Does the internet actually inhibit, not encourage democracy? In this new RSA Animate, Evgeny Morozov presents an alternative take on 'cyber-utopianism' - the seductive idea that the internet plays a largely empancipatory role in global politics."

If I can't fly with the penguins... . then let me swim with the baby elephants more inside

New Death Ritual Found in Himalaya—27 De-fleshed Humans. In high cliffside caves, explorers find 1,500-year-old bones.