A rare tooth-in-eye operation has enabled a Thai teenager to see again after six years of blindness. Good Lord, this is amazing.

Javalog is a fireplace log made out of coffee grounds.

Want your kid to disappear? For $1,800, former Atlanta police officer Rick Strawn will make that problem child someone else's problem. He even makes house calls. more inside

Stick Avalanche. (Flash, via ABS) The most brilliant game ever invented. more inside

Metafilter Access [NSFW - someone posted goatse to Mefi] more inside

Porky Pig stole this card---- What do Mariah Carey, Beethoven, and Zeus have in common? Click to find out.

Sunni Drag Cleric Supports USA Rashid is the Imam of the only Muslim house of worship within the Green Zone in Baghdad. All the other Iraqi clerics hate him, but he doesn't care. He patterns himself after the Virgin Mary, and he bleaches his beard as a sign of purity to go with his patterned contact lenses. And he loves Whitney Houston and "Gone With the Wind."

The Thumb Trick - What would happen if you pulled Bush's finger?

Cartophilia!

Curious George: Movie Ratings Educational Poster I'm looking for a copy of a poster (either a real poster, or an image) that I used to see in movie theatres. It was an educational poster that showed the different rating levels for films G thru X (this was pre NC-17). With each rating was an illustration of the family members who could attend the film - the lower ratings included a rabbit in the audience who also showed up in the X audience wearing a pair of sunglasses.
I haven't found anything via Google or eBay...

Curious George I just ate at a restaurant in Los Angeles (The Pig, a BBQ restaurant on La Brea in Hollywood) that was awful. Not "rat feces in the food" awful, just expensive and damn mediocre. I ordered a slab of ribs that were tiny, that came cold and were dry. To top it all off, the corn bread was stale and the beans tasted like they came from a can. I complained to the staff who were sympathetic, but also seemed to have heard this all before. Does anyone know of a website that I can post to where folks will actually read and care about my review?

The Degree Confluence Project The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. There is a confluence within 49 miles (79 km) of you if you're on the surface of Earth.

This can't be true. So, my fellow monkeys, put your folkie caps on... What is folk music?

George Bush speaks to the people. With the help of Will Ferrell. (Link to page with QuickTime/MOV file)

Cars In Barns

Stranger than fiction. Forget astronomy, sci-fi enthusiasts should be studying marine biology.

New message from the Pope about the differences between men and women. (Stolen from MetaFilter.) I know this is NewsFiltery, but it did make me think about what a woman's place has been over the ages. more inside

Trystan's Closet I came across this while searching the name of a clothing store. While not what I was looking for, this woman's gallery of nerd-fabulous creations was a cool discovery nonetheless. more inside

28MM a photography magazine.

Five Eight (Quicktime video) One of the most legendary bands in the history of the Athens, Georgia music scene. These guys have been around a long time. I once saw this band at the Brass Mug in Tampa and the lead singer Mike Mantione stripped naked and read poetry. He said he wouldn't stop until he sold enough CDs and t-shirts for gas money for the band's van. That kinda stuff is normal for this band.