Waterboarding guidelines . This is the stuff of nightmares.

Exploring the meaning of Evil Pictures by Danish artist Nina Kleivan of her daughter dressed as Stalin and Saddam, as part of her exhibition 'Potency'. more inside

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation How Lincoln could have better put his points across.

You can make your own loudspeakers... if you have access to a good woodshop, have the inclination, time and patience, you can make a pair of extremely good loudspeakers. Troels Gravesen is a biochemist and audio hobbyist - his website publishes some of the best documented DIY designs around.

March Madness: Not Just For Basketball Fans some spirited competitions here, from the Whedonverse to the Muppetverse (please please please vote for Rowlf), although the lovely and talented Miss C and the Flossers failed to include Consumerist's Worst Company Playoff or Nerdcast's Game Vs. Game Tournament or Queen Victoria's Royal Pick-Em, or the non-playoff-oriented Modok Madness (via thatotherfilter).

Video game bosses' lament.

Not left to chance. Making sure you get that amazing wildlife shot by renting the wildlife is apparently a widespread, if somewhat under the radar, practice. more inside

Mix and match album covers Album cover art literally stitched together to create something new.

Star Wars as Icelandic saga - There is also an Old High German palimpsest known to scholars, later overwritten by a Latin choral and only partly legible to us today, which contains fragments of a version wherein “Veitare” survives to old age after slaying “Lûc” out of loyalty to the emperor, but is naturally still conflicted about the deed when the son of his daughter Leia avenges the killing on him.

Tree shrew lavatory in Borneo - the pitcher plant has evolved to capture tree shrew poo as a much needed source of nitrogen.

Lazertits! Because you always need to see nekkid ladies with lasers coming out of their boobs! Fluff for a Friday night.

So anyway, this website I visit reckons that I suck (well, not me personally, we've never met, but in a Venn Diagram I would be in the "suck" balloon...) because I block their ads. They've now written a detailed guide to not blocking their ads. more inside

Vroom!

A regular dose of lemon juice , that's all it took to prevent scurvy. The Royal Navy knew that in the 18th century. So why was scurvy back at the start of the 20th?

Ten songs you know, that never won an Oscar, in their original movie form. I never knew that Dean Martin had to fend off Jerry Lewis's bleatings whilst crooning "That's amore." And wouldn't we all prefer "Mean green mother from outer space" to be a standard instead of "Take your breath away"?

Star Wars Made In France [SLYT] I have no words to describe this. It has to be seen and heard. [via]

Building better teachers - or rather, preparing teachers better. (via, which includes this singularly *ahem* illuminating comment on why one is not prime. anyway.)

I don't know if this really counts as a link, but I've added a twist. Yeah, it's just a link to Google Maps. But wait, there's more...I've sort of invented a game. more inside

Curious George: has anyone experienced sleep paralysis? The other night, I dreamed a child was running into traffic with a hood over her head. With an immense effort, and several tries, a horrible croak awoke my mate, and so dissipated the wisps of nightmare. It was what it was, but I'm hoping others will share less pedestrian examples...

A new commercial from Rhett and Link. more inside