Ligers . . . for real!

100 people who are screwing up America When the list starts with Michael Moore and doesn't even include G.W. Bush... via

The Laugh Judgement Ship of Fools, the sensible face of British Christianity, seeks to collect the most outrageous and offensive religious jokes before a proposed new law bans them. Nicked from the Guardian's Newsblog

Take that first train to Nashville, and I'll meet you at the station. Jonathan Demme will be shooting a concert film of Neil Young next week in Nashville. So, here's your chance to become a speck in the audience, maybe get yourself on imdb. And it's Neil, man! NEIL! more inside

Curious George: Enterprise-level web hosting There are a couple of web hosting threads already around, but they have been aimed at inexpensive personal web hosting. I'm wondering about the kind of web host that would provide hosting and tech support for a reasonably large company. It would need to be redundant, guarantee 24-hour access, the usual sort of thing... So, how does your company manage web hosting? Or, alternatively, who would you go to for hosting if you were to become a company?

50 SciFi Works That Socialists Should Read This is China Mieville's list -- I haven't read most of these, and am wondering which are worthwhile and which aren't.[via Woods Lot]

The origin of mass may not be in the postulated existance of the Higgs boson, a top quark condensate or any other alternate model. Two researchers suggest a theory pertaining to inertial mass can been extended to include gravitational mass, involving the non-relativistic zero-point field. more inside

Holy crap! Is that pretty neato-keen or what!?

Worst. Excuse. Evar. If one has a phobia of being in a car with someone else driving, why would one become an instructon/tester for the DMV? And how does groping underaged breasts help with said phobia?

CG: Jumping the gun Really getting ahead of myself here. In about 6 weeks, I'll be a father. I'd like my child to start learning a new language. But which? French may be the most useful within Canada, Spanish the most useful within the hemisphere, and Mandarin is likely the language of the future, but not necessarily within the next generation. If I'm going to start playing tapes and CDs while baby sleeps (and mommy lets me), which should I concentrate on? (I speak poor French, passable Spanish, and a wee smattering of Mandarin, if that helps)