Curious George: Why all the photos? I asked this question in this thread but thought I'd cast a wider net. Why are there SO many photos of the Iraq prisoner abuse that occured at Abu Ghraib? more inside

The web shredder

Andy Kaufman is still dead. Your weird press release update.

Curious George: So how old are you really? a comment from languagehat made me realize that some of my perceptions on the age range here are a wee bit off - for some reason i tend to assume that most people here are around the same age as me, which more often than not turns out to be untrue. so, in an effort to get a more accurate picture of the age range, without actually being indelicate enough to just bluntly ask for the number, please give me a clue, like, say, an important world event that happened when you were in high school, or some such. come on, spill it... more inside

The World Stephen Glover, one of the three founders of the British newspaper, the Independent is planning on starting The World, 'an "upmarket" daily devoted as much to good writing as to making sure that stories about celebrities and furry animals do not make headlines'. more inside

Cubic Eye 3D user interface and tools. via BBspot.

A tour of Iceland with the poetry of Jonas Hallgrimsson.

Sears and the Mail-Order Home. Sears, Roebuck sold EVERYTHING---including complete Ready-To-Assemble Houses-- by MAIL. Click on the "Images" section for a veritable encyclopedia of early mid-century tract design. If you had $934, you had the American Dream...

High Quality Football Logos! .Download 'em! Collect 'em! (...and I don't even LIKE football! But I do like these logos).

Finding the energy within

Sisters. Excerpts from Lynne Cheney's tale of women in the Wild West. more inside

Firecrackers. A collection of over 400 firecracker labels, from old classics through to the present.

Security checkpoints to begin in Boston subways. And no more pictures in the New York subways. Slowly, the US transmogrifies into another Tel Aviv.

Exiles: Uncertain times for Iraqi Canadians. Flash presentation from CBC's Radio 3, profiling three Iraqi Canadians as they talk about their lives, Iraq and the war. [via airgid.com, the designer's website.] more inside

"Gukanjima - View of an Abandoned Island" Poignantly creepy.

Bush takes a Fall Michael Moore, on accepting the Palme d'Or from Cannes for his film "Fahrenheit 9/11", said of Dubya that he hoped "nobody tells him that I have won this award while he is eating a pretzel." No worries, Michael: he was riding his bike.

"Power in itself has never attracted me, nor has position been my goal. My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country." So said Sonia Gandhi as she declined the position of Prime Minister of India. more inside

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be a joke. This, however, does.

Who let bin Ladens leave U.S.? Remember when the bin Laden family was allowed to be flown out of America by the FBI on Uncle Sam dollars shortly after 9/11 while the rest of America was grounded.? Now Democratics Senators are asking who approved this. The White Hose refuses to answer. more inside

The Museum of Chimpography. This somehow seems appropriate here.