How to make an Ocarina from card - You will need a sheet of card, a pair of scissors, craft knife or such-like, glue, straight edge or steel ruler, something to cut on, and opposable thumbs. Then you can blow on it and go blooble bloople oopleoooh etc, and annoy everyone for hours on end.

Short-notice NYC MoFi meetup? August 1? more inside

Understanding pop music OC Weekly has a helpful critical analysis of “Hollaback Girl” by Gwen Stefani. more inside

Seductive cow! Bovines envious of all the action the horses have been getting? Here's some ungulate lingerie!

Professed love simultaneously mixed with utter condemnation. Fundamentalism explained by an ex-fundamentalist. more inside

Planet X Found! Get the facts and begin saucer boarding procedures. And whatever did happen to good old Niburu?

Filthy, funny, flawed, gorgeous Blog made up of brilliant little short short short stories.

"It was a call from her best friend that woke her up. ‘Quick, turn on the telly! There’ve been explosions all over London'. She watched in horror as her beloved city was plunged into chaos. Bodies were retrieved, places cordoned off and a deep sense of shock had taken over.

more inside

Happy 6th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. "Gift ideas - What to avoid: Promotional marketing gifts (known as "Swag" or "Schwag") with your OWN company's corporate logo on it. I've already got it. When I signed for the box, I opened it and helped myself. I've got plenty of [ CoffeeCups | MousePads | Pens | SweatShirts | NylonJackets | GolfBalls | MemoPads | TeeShirts ] for my whole family."

Adopt a penguin. Since you can't actually buy a penguin, this is the next best thing. You can name your own Magellanic penguin, and have a sign displayed over its burrow. They are not the most threatened species of penguin, but they do face some challenges. more inside

Passenger exposes himself on commuter flight. The stewardess offerred him a drink. He showed her he already had nuts. (Via obscurestore) more inside

Our blurry Capitol: I was showing my brother-in-law the fly-by coolness of Google Earth when we noticed that the Capitol looked a little pixelated. Took a stroll over to the White House and saw what looks like a really bad photoshopping job. more inside

Turnabout is the GreasemonkIE for Internet Explorer I use firefox so I don't care but if you want to remix websites and you cling to Microsoft browsing then there's a way to catch up with the cool kids.

Sheath Cleaning: Have you done your gelding/stallions lately? Check to make sure there are no prospective boyfriends, elderly neighbors, or Brownie troops with a line of sight to the proceedings. Though of course they're probably going to show up unexpectedly ANYWAY once you're in the middle of things. Prepare a good explanation.

Commonplace Books Yale's Beinicke Library has a nice collection of digital images of commonplace books. more inside

What's your favourite colour?

Curious George - Whom/What do you trust? I tell friends that there are only a couple of things that I completely trust. The first being my swiss army knife, the second being the triple AAA (American Automobile Club) and the last being my family. Each of these have never failed me. There have been a few others that have come close (a 1983 BMW 323i that never seemed to break down, Sony TVs that seemed to last forever, an old mac laptop that wouldn't die, several close friends/girlfriends that haven't been completely honest but whom I love nonetheless) but few that I could put in the pantheon. Whom or what can you trust, absolutely, without reservation?

The strange story of Napolean's Wallpaper. A curious theory for the source of the arsenic which was later detected in a sample of his hair. more inside

Blissful Monkey Yoga Our minds are like a wild horse, and the intellect is like a monkey.

CAFTA: The controversial CAFTA passes by two votes. STOP CAFTA! Dr Greger explains CAFTA, world government by global corporations, and its effect on animal welfare, from CAFTA's roots in NAFTA, Fast Track, etc., in 54 minutes of brilliant audio clips.

Curious, George: Good Colocation Host I've been tasked with finding a good colocation host to use as a backup to our web servers... more inside