Fiona Apple's new album may have been shelved by Sony, but that won't stop the music. The title track from her oft-delayed album has been leaked and can be downloaded here. [Via pop (all love)] more inside

Rodney King II. Police beatings are alive and well in LA. This morning's incident comes a week after the LAPD put numerous reforms into place following a Justice Department complaint.

Monkey Productions Presents: 20 Questions About the Candidates
I got 19 out of 20. Yay me. via Presurfer

Behind the scenes fotos and credits Nelly Furtado POWERLESS video This site features production stills, credits, and two streaming versions of POWERLESS music video. Really intended for Nelly Furtado fans, but interesting just the same...(you need quicktime to see the vids)

"Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community." There's also Mathworld. I started with Conic Sections, and proceeded to get very lost.

curious george...changing windows my computer and i get along well, with mutual faith and trust that the other won't wreak havoc upon the other. but now, i'm going to go from ME to 2000 proffessional. my friend says just follow the instructions and don't partition the disc...(?) isn't there more i should do first and expect to do afterwards?

Las Muertas de Ju "Since 1993, more than 320 women have been murdered in Ciudad Ju more inside

Ice, Ice Baby! Stormtroopers, droids, and awful hits of the 90s, come to life! Or, if you prefer the classics, check out Dancing Pan. SFW, movies. [stolen from Sensible Erection]

Five stories from The Voice Imitator, by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard is a remarkable author, often misunderstood. I highly recommend The Voice Imitator, and I think y'all will enjoy this excerpt: more inside

The pixel is celebrating his 50th birthday!
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Town Doesn't Welcome Libertarians - Members of the Free Town Project, an off-shoot of the Free State Project, received a chilly reception when they tried to pitch their ideas to the people of Grafton, New Hampshire (the luckiest state). more inside

Curious George! Has Google been hijacked recently? Anybody else having weird problems with search results? More inside.

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Auto Mondrian.

Robots Are Our Friends - It's animated, it's a song, it's got robots, it's FLASH. Gedditindya.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves will sort out your punctuation problems, leaving you grocer's-apostrophe-free and generally unassailable, both morally and grammatically. Yes yes? Louis Menand is less than convinced.

Rasputin's Penis. NSFW of course.

Little girl's mom stuck behind glass. How tragic...

Slice is easily the net's best blog about Pizza. Not just Pizza mind you, but New York Pizza. Especially "real" New York Pizza, of the coal fired oven, thin crust, fresh mozzarel variety. And they've just announced the best reason to own an Ipod since 40 gigs of empeethreeez. more inside

The 50 coolest song parts.
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