Buttons and Soles Does anyone in Vancouver City have a favorite cheap and good seamtress/tailor/whatever to repair some buttons and tears? Also, anyone have a favorite shoe repaire place, to patch a holey sole?

Fewer than one in 10 climate scientists believe that climate change is principally caused by human activity

Today's squid-related news: because I couldn't find anything about monkeys.

Curious George: Internet monitor. I am having lots of trouble finding a good Win app that will monitor my Internet connection minute-by-minute and tell me when the connection was up or down (Web down, DNS down, etc). Most of the programs I've found are good at alerting on outages but are poor on logging them. Any ideas here?

Spike Seigel, Jet Black, Faye Valentine and Edward Wong Hau Pepulu Tivrusky the fourth as lego. Let's get everybody and this stuff together...three two one let's go..

The Time Traveler Convention. Just because it needs as much publicity as it can get (and is extraordinarily funny). Be there, or be square! more inside

17 Drawings Matthew F. D. Hemming (aka CheeseburgerBrown, author of the Darth Vader blog) just published a short day-in-the-life story-book based on this article here. Not only can he write, he can draw too! more inside

Teach-yourself computing for kids Pardon the link to a news site, but i found this story very interesting and wanted to share.

CEO Report to Shareholders from Chase Bank
Cannibal Flesh Donor Program Cool (Flash) Design Site
Random weirdness is the only real reason for grouping these sites. I like weirdly random things.

Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass. An angry physics major sounds off.

A Ukranian sign language news interpreter told people the truth about the election. While the state sponsored news broadcast told people that the (Russian backed) candidate had won, the sign language interpreter let everyone know the fix was in.

Curious George: What's the deal with MS Office's defaults? Do people use them? While I know that there is a Letter-size, A4 divide, some of these might apply regardless of the paper size. more inside

Messengers of Faith: Collectible talking figures that recite verses from the Bible! 12" tall, highly detailed and fully posable!

Details of Hilter's last days in the bunker revealed. Erna Flegel, Hitler's nurse, reveals what happened in the bunker during Hitler's last days. Not to be confused with Der Untergang, the recent film version of the same events starring Bruno Ganz. Reviews of the film here. more inside

Decent Free Photo Hosting I'm looking for a free and decent photo-hosting site for my blog . I've been to Flickr, but they have a 20MB per month upload limit. Anyone know of a better place?

Life Imitates Art Tip of worker's finger cut off. Finger turns up in container of food. more inside

Beautiful Roman Glassware in exhibition giving a good idea of sophistication of design, and evoking a picture of use in daily Roman life. Image galleries one, two, three and four. Quite nice, I thought.

Ever wonder what that eerie creaking sound was?

Cooking and engineering CAN live in harmony. Well, maybe not. I dont want to see an angry engineer with a chef's blade. Anyhow, it's customary if you're an engineer (especially if you're a student) to subsist on twinkies and ramen, but this guy begs to differ.

Kitten rearing. Curious George: I have five two-week-old kittens on my hands, literally. Their mother is reluctant to care for them. I had to cut their umbilical cords when they were born (4am, thank you!) and I have had to feed them semi-regularly for the last two weeks plus a day whenever they are hungry (2am, 4am, 5:27am or when ever, their cries are undeniable). (Older MoFites might remember me getting the parents when I was Jerry Garcia around here. I've got some pics of the litter ;) more inside