San Francisco in Jello. Liz Hickok creates sculpture of the city landmarks, using Jello. Everyone's got room for ... the Bay Bridge?

Interview with Orhan Pamuk. Der Spiegel interviews Mr. Pamuk who was in Frankfurt for the Book Fair and to accept the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. more inside

Celebrity lookalikes. Hours of fun. more inside

Curious George: Is Rockwool more insulating than an air gap? As winter's cold tentacles creep into my house and penetrate me with icy determination, my thoughts also turn to insulation.

This game is no longer available so he made his own. more inside

Get a feline life? Try Catster. At 43 Things, 8 people want to have a catster.com cat of the week. There's already a fanlisting for Catster called Kitty Connection which apparently has six members. Laughing Squid featured it in one entry a couple of days ago. It has been around for about a month. A review of it says the original Dogster was launched as a spoof, but took off. more inside

The Eggcorn Database "This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation."

The Thousand Sorrows of Ogner Stump more inside

Hamming the burger with Eugene. The best laugh I've had all week!

All your base rhapsody. (video) Brightened my day.

Indictments. Today Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22 indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice, perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of the CIA/Valerie Plame leak-gate case.

An analyst for an investment bank literally chopped up an iPod and estimated the total cost to Apple for manufacturing, packaging and distributing the gadget. Conclusion? Half the money you pay for an iPod is pure PROFIT.

Guys, you can thank me later. more inside

Curious, George: Déjà Vu How often do you experience it? Does it bother you, or do you enjoy it? It never really bothered me until yesterday's David Copperfield post. The moment I saw the post, I kinda freaked out; it was the most intense case of déjà vu I have ever experienced. At first I tried to convince myself, "surely I must have read this somewhere else." But then I saw Chy's comment, and I knew that something was awry. It was as if I was living Groundhog Day... And yes, yesterday was quite a bad day for me! Why, why did my déjà vu have to involve David Copperfield!? Is this some evil mutation of the David Hasselhoff recursion??

8-bit Star Wars You may have to squint, but I think it's worth it.

Wanna get pwned by bacon? The bacon of the month club will make you bacon's bitch, man. This is only for those of you who dream about bacon, 'cos it's hella expensive. more inside

Robo-Monkey. From WowWee comes a talking robotic chimpanzee head. video

The value of Monkeyfilter. Based on the research of Tristan Louis, the dollar value of various websites is now possible to be determined. Monkeyfilter apparently is worth $173,313.78. more inside

Shake's insults. I have no idea what a 'pumpion' may be but it sounds foul, especially in combination with 'pottle-deep'!

Falcon dive-bombing starlings wins top photo prize: "I felt the fear and the starlings' urgent need to survive, and the psychological pressure of the falcon as it dive-bombed the small birds," says Italian Manuel Presti of his photograph Sky Chase, overall winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organised by the Natural History Museum, London, UK, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Seen at Follow Me Here... more inside