Curious, George: Boys keep out This one's just for the girls. Birth control question ahead. more inside

"Doctor, I woke up this morning, and I found THIS..." Man gets drunk. Man passes out. Friend puts padlock on man's scrotum. Man waits two weeks before having it removed. The padlock, obviously. (Via obscurestore) [WARNING: article contains mention of hacksaw.] more inside

Stacking the Deck The gallery's all you need, unless you want to buy the book.

Curious George: Uses for a very old laptop I know this is a common kind of thing that crops up, but I have a Digital Hinote Ultra 2000 laptop (2 of them in fact), each with a 100MB hard drive, and a P1 166MMX processor. What could I do with them? Is there anything I can do to make them useable? more inside

These lines jiggle
Possibly the Greatest Time-Waster I have ever seen. It's as though Tempest has come to life. Create your own amoeba, magic rotating pillar-thing, or weird man walker. These little beasties are surprisingly complex and beautiful, even generated and optimized with artificial intelligence for the races. And the AI is winning. (Java applets, fyi)

I Am Curious; Bubble. I've turned into a bubble tea zombie. I just love this stuff, and have 3 bubble tea joints within 3 blocks of my house. Anyone else a slave to Tea 'n' Lumpz?

Curious, George: Digitizing my vinyl music I'm looking for tips, suggestions, and software for converting some of my music on vinyl to digital format. more inside

Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman? an essay by Dinesh D'Souza from the April 2005 edition of American History magazine.

CIA Electronic Reading Room Thousands for formerly secret documents for researchers, enthusiasts, or the simply curious. more inside

Crash Test Kitchen put together by Aussies living in Canada

Hiroshima Peace Site In keeping with today's "Japanese" theme, I thought it was appropriate to post some Hiroshima-related links, seeing that yesterday was 60 years since the US dropped the bomb. more inside

Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts The materials, techniques, terminology and history of various forms of Japanese arts and crafts. more inside

Watching Braveheart

This song is the Japenese obession with eggs. They put eggs on EVERYTHING. Raw eggs on salad, meat, rice...and cooked eggs on almost everything ELSE! They love their eggs. Ignore the little popup thing asking you to download the Language pack. more inside

Uncut - OHH! "The Finnish version of the DuckTales theme sounds very much, to an English-speaker's ear, like an anti-circumcision song." Has sound and may be a little bit NSFW. (via b3ta)

Curious George: Cinema Paradiso. Specifically the kiss montage at the end. I'm trying to find a list of all the film clips shown and my google-fu is failing me. more inside

Why are we laughing? Researchers are asking this question, and have come up with several ideas, if no absolute answers. Are they all wet or on the right track?

Old Hollywood Movie Stills. High quality images too.

WWI Image Archive 'EarlyAviator': Large collection concentrating on air-ware. Includes airships, guns, planes, posters/paintings/badges & death photos. The site could use a makeover with thumbs but compensates with content over appearance. [The death section is pretty benign - nothing gruesome to my mind - mostly crash scenes/graves.]

I dream of old Dean Moriarty. "On the Road", Beat Bible and required reading for any sullen teen wanting to get out of their hick town, finally to make it to the big screen. Brace yourself -- this will either be glorious, or an abomination and sin against nature. more inside