Georgina the rabbit was swiped midway through a magic performance of Velcro the Great in London today. Seems that Georgina was only the fourth rabbit Lynn Thomas has used in his 20+ year gig as a street & stage magician.

Transparent Screens. Some of these are very well done...

Captain Odor-Eaters™ and his dog, Zorbitex™ are on a mission to wipe out foot odor, wherever it may be. They found it in Montpelier, VT.

Russian scientists determine that "whipping therapy" can cure depression and suicide crises by increasing the production of endorphins. S&M as therapy? [via the science blog Gene Expression]

Former UVM Researcher Admits to Fraud A former University of Vermont researcher has admitted to altering and fabricating research results for a decade. In that time, he received $2.9 million in federal research funding (mostly NIH). The actual findings are listed here. There have been a number of recent, high-profile scandals involving researchers of several different disciplines. Are these outings of plagiarism and fraud proof that the system works, or does the review/refereeing process need tweaking or an overhaul? more inside

Naked Man Shot and Killed and was threatening three unclothed children? WTF news story of the day. (Anonymous login does exist for this story!)

THE ACME MINIATURE CIRCUS STARRING MIDGE AND MADGE, PERFORMING FLEAS

Chicken chicken chicken [pdf]. Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken? Chicken chicken chicken! Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken, chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken. more inside

Coloring Book In the words of Jim Wirt "came about as a social experiment created for my own personal amusement. Around the middle of 1998 I decided to take crappy clip art and add my own words, then put them in a xerox copied D.I.Y. style booklet. I would then arm myself with 50 or so booklets, hit the various bars in Hollywood and pass them out. It was quite fun seeing the different reactions it would get. So now I bring these images to the internet for you to enjoy as well." Check out his four lovely collections NSFW Language

Jorn's Back The man who invented the weblog as we understand the term today took a breather a couple of years ago, only to return without comment in February this year.

Escher's Tiles Simple Java applet that'll allow you to regularly tile the plane, using the exact same method (and patterns) that Escher used. more inside

A resource for the interested, whether experienced or not. Amputee world isn't much different (at first glance) from other internet sites I've seen which enable people to meet up. There are chatrooms, and the owner of the site takes care not to be exploitative, mentioning the myriad of other pages available to people who just want to gawk. Being porn-free is a marketable angle (but lust and porn can be decent and valid too, in my opinion), but I think the site is most notable for this: "There are a great many different people in this world and, accordingly, a great many different admirers. Perhaps, some of them are sick but unfortunately there are a few sick people in every community in the world." more inside

Dog Condoms

Nate's Plagiarism smackdown "...If a Shudra watches dharma and greg, it will have a positive effect on his karma."

Curious George: Web Design for Mac OSX I'm trying to find a reeeeally simple web design program for OSX. I got Dreamweaver, but find the learning curve a little steep and don't really have the time to put into it. I need a simple wysiwyg program that will let me construct a simple site in just a few days...any suggestions?