This Is Broken. A blog talking about, uh, broken stuff. Like the confused doors. Or DANALs. Also: The Hall Of Technical Documentation Weirdness

A busy person's guide to the Bush press conference. Just in case you didn't catch it last night and you don't have the time (or desire) to read the full transcript.

Hakuin Ekaku Prints. If you are feeling in the mood for some Zen Buddhist prints by the great Hakuin, well, here they are. I think this one is my favorite.

Genesis of Parodies Original cartoon series by creationists. Their parodies. [Via Panda's Thumb]

Man Bites Dog. Story in full: Dog bites man. Man bites dog. Dog dies because man bites dog to death.

Welcome to Tessellation World, M. C. Escher-type works by Makoto Nakamura Nakamura takes it several steps further. Impressive work, especially for anyone who is a fan of Escher's.

The categorization of dystopias. And my own favorite dystopian author, George Turner

Hide Your Barbies-- There's a New Girl In Town! Is it an homage to Christina Ricci, or a hydrocephalic astronaut caught in an airlock?

GLORIOUS NEWS: SharpeWorld is (mostly) back! If you've never been, go and bookmark NOW. I'll wait. P.S.: 100th post! yay , me!

Someone registered at MetaFilter in the last round of signups, waited 10 days, and then posted a link to his own site, which turned out to be a marketing tool for collecting e-mail addresses via thebettercompany.com. What a jerk! Mathowie: "I just can't believe the jesus guy turned out to be worse than even our worst fears." Does MoFi have a similar policy against self-linking? Just be wary for future potential MoFi abuse by viral marketers.

Victoria's Secret's Commercial I'm sure when women think of sexy lingerie the first thing that comes to their minds is the man who sang Yea Heavy and a Bottle of Bread. This falls under WTF was all parties involved thinking when they made this commercial.

Neat chimp mask. [Via RealityCarnival.]

Origami Portraits. There's two pages of portraits, including Stalin, and Frankenstein's Monster.

The jerky new guys are obviously learning, 'We don't do things like that around here.' "In a study appearing today in the journal PLoS Biology, researchers describe the extensive temperamental and tonal shift that occurred in a troop of 62 baboons when its most beliigerent members vanished from the scene." Commentary in PLoS: "Yet, the main two points of this discovery are loud and clear: social behavior observed in nature may be a product of culture, and even the fiercest primates do not forever need to stay this way."

Millions of people owe their lives to Fred Soper. Why isn't he a hero? Sorry, Zemat. I was going to post this to your earlier thread about DDT but I felt we all owed Fred Soper his own thread. Sorry if I broke any unwritten rules of the community...

Otters? No way. I blame it all on Sam Gross and National Lampoon.

Google bombing for Good "If you've ever Googled the word Jew, you may have noticed that an antisemitic hate site, Jew Watch, inexplicably and disturbingly comes up as the top result on what is beyond a doubt the most frequently relied upon search engine in the world." more inside

Polling Marriage Convictions - Americans polled on marriage in society, same-sex marriage, and civil unions.

Songs to Wear Pants To. Trismic takes your suggestions and makes short songs out of them, sort of like an explodingdog for audio. more inside

What the World Needs Now Is DDT Malaria is still one of the worst enemies afflicting the African continent, yet it still being underrated and ignored. DDT is highly toxic chemical agent that still could be used in beneficial ways (as mentioned in the above New York Times article) yet it's overuse in the 60's and the publication of Silent Spring made it unpopular and killed it politically. more inside