Saucy Exploitation Schlock Paperback Covers Your Dad Used To Hide In Shame. (Via Vintage Sex via Things.com!)

A German chamber pot museum explains a little about the humble thunder mug. Consider the mighty chamber pot and the benefits it offered our recent ancestors. Here are some lovely (and utilitarian) examples of this relic of our unplumbed past.

Ben Franklin on the United States constitution. "In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. -- Ben Franklin Thanks to Gore Vidal for using this quote in his excellent new book from which I discovered the above quote.

There's something fishy about Prawnography

Mixerman Chronicles A fascinating and very...long...read about the trials and tribulations of a horrible band signed by a major label that just can't get its **** together.

Oy, These Prices! Are You Meshugganah? Also here and here.

Beards and Mustaches: The Champions. I'll take this over the World Series or the Superbowl any day.

The professional pornstar (NSFW)

Welcome to E-Hand: the Electronic Textbook of Hand Surgery
Three-D Hand Models, X-Rays, Robotic hands and Congenital Amputation... That's entertainment! Surf about, you'll find plenty.

The FBI has required Las Vegas hotels and airlines to turn over all guest and passenger names and personal information for the holiday period, as mandated by the recent legislation which the_bone posted about a few days ago. more inside

Orisinal: Morning Sunshine (flash games)

Say Cheeeescake!

Girl with a Pearl Earring, an in-depth study. Few masterpieces deserve to be made into a book, then a movie. Whatever you may think of them is another matter entirely.

How well can you recognise films... Without the actors? If you're having trouble, don't worry. There's 159 more invisible quizzes for you to get your hands on. (I can only get the last two on quiz #160. I feel incredibly inadequate.)

M And doctoring by stealth in Burundi. more inside

Go to Hell !! Or use this opportunity to send the people you hate. Enjoy.

How and why will artificial life love? An interesting paper on love regarding artificial life jam packed full of quotes to philosophers from ages past. And just for the hell of it, a bonus link on love!

We Know Something You Don't Know.
Click that movie link. Totally rad. Good song and great video. Get down, Charlie Tuna!

A long read from the Atlantic Monthly more inside

The Republic of Cascadia ... and their elite Sasquatch Militia.