Curious, George: This post on MeFi, and the erm - spirited - discussion of spirits that seems to be beginning left me wondering what the monkeys out here go for on a night out, or, for that matter on a night in. more inside

Ben Affleck In Rolling Stone Affleck says he doesn't know why their union caused such a hostile reaction. "Hopefully I can get far enough away from it in time to be able to get a better sense of it," he says, although he suspects the hostility "had something to do with race and class. That pushed a button. This is a country that flew into a gigantic uproar about Janet Jackson's breast. There's still a heavy-duty puritan influence going on, and we still hold ourselves to a pretty chaste ideal, which includes, buried within it, the tradition of people being with people like them. We were thought of as two different kinds of people, not just racially but culturally." Perhaps that's why the tabloids have gone easier on Lopez dating singer Marc Anthony. Affleck lights another of his menthol Marlboro Lights. "Basically, it just came down to, 'Wow, I never thought those two would get together.'"

Coming to a sex club near you! Here's your chance get to know Bessy better without risking an embarrassing trial: the Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator Project.

Visit the zoo to see some wonderfull creatures like this Caracalgirl. Or, you could write to Adobe and demand they start vetting people before they use Photoshop.

A Setback for the Autonomous Killer Robots. For complete details, check out the official DARPA Grand Challenge website. If I had to root for a self-directed murderous robot machine, I'd cheer for the NaviGATOR, from my hometown of Gainesville, Florida. ("I used to pass that autonomous mechanical death system every day on my way to class!")

Matt Sesow, one-armed artist extraordinaire.

The Georgian Museum of Photography. Online exhibits from the Republic of Georgia; themes include the Tiflis Society of Amateur Photographers 1893-1906, independent Georgia 1918-1921, architecture 1850-1914, the 1930s, and the family.

Lord of the Rings is set to become a "lavish stage musical" next year. Dozens of actors will perform complex battle scenes! Obviously you'll want to see the official site. It apparently has the support of the Tolkien Society, since they've issued a press release on behalf of the production.

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Racoons , introduced to Germany by Hermann G

Shot For Shot Remake of "Thriller" with Lego People Scroll down for long downloadable version. Totally worth it.
god help me if waxpancake ever joins the lavender, I'll never have anything to post ...

All about Balls. He's got big balls, she's got big balls, but we've got the biggest balls of them all. An obsession with spheroids.

I know where Bruce Lee lives. The ultrainteractive kungfu remixer. (Flash) This remixer was originally commissioned for the online art-exhibition "Festival of Visions - Hongkong -Berlin" in which Berlin Artists were asked to work with inspirations from HongKong culture. Out of fascination for the subject and the new genre of cinematic remixing on the web, we developed it much further. more inside