Old dinosaur books!

Jenna and Barbara Bush Online Chat Now I agree with Atrios, Ana Marie Cox (aka Wonkette) may be pulling our leg. If not then this online chat is hysterical. It seems that the Bush girls talk like 50 year-old White House speechwriters and like to pepper their language with a Bill and Ted "excellent." more inside

I want a short wave radio please. "59372 98324 19043 78903 95320...". The mechanized female voice drones on and on... What have you stumbled on to? Instructions to spies? Messages exchanged between drug dealers? Deliberate attempts at deception and mis-information?

High speed video and still images. (The images in the last link are in .pdf format.)

Pleix Films - A collection of weird and disturbing short films. My personal favorite? Beauty Kit (First link req Real Player, second Quicktime)

Children's books of the early Soviet era

Curious George: Hosted server I need some help from the monkeys here for finding a reliable hosted web server. more inside

The Hero Machine is endless fun. Cheaper than City of Heroes!

Friday Flash Fun It's still Friday, right? Sound is mandatory !

What OS are you? Cute quiz if you've got time to answer twenty questions. more inside

Gallery of Apollo mission photos. via Slashdot, sorted by mission number. I know a lot of us probably saw it over there, but I think it's worth posting here as well. more inside

Colin Powell: YMCA. I was shocked to find no link to this on MeFi. Via Insomnia. more inside

A Matter of Taste.

Blogs Write About Reporters Writing About Blogs Now this is just getting silly. Kos points out how silly the coverage of bloggers that will be covering the Democratic Convention.

One reporter asked Jerome of MyDD what he would be covering at the convention. Jerome replied, "I'll be writing about you writing about me." It's getting to be that absurd.

I hear the that (hold your hats) the television media is going to film bloggers at their laptops. Now that's riveting TV.

One-Letter Words. All-Consonant Words. Strange and unusual dictionaries.

The Invisible Toilet

a steak, a girl, a fur bikini=???

What is not on the net. Marylaine Block, librarian and creator of the excellent Best Information on the Net, provides a much-needed reality check on the idea that you can find it all with the click of a mouse. "Because of the inordinate cost of digitizing, lack of interest, and copyright issues, most of the world's information will NEVER be on the internet, or at least not for free." Yes, the essay is a couple of years old, and yes, it's impressionistic, but it's true, and will continue to be true for many years to come. Go visit your local library and refresh your research skills.

Unabridged Letters of Van Gogh Genius sorted by topic (Art, Food-and-Drink, Health, Psychology, etc) and searchable. "As far as I understand it, we of course agree perfectly about black in nature. Absolute black does not really exist. But like white, it is present in almost every colour, and forms the endless variety of greys, - different in tone and strength. So that in nature one really sees nothing else but those tones or shades." more inside

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