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Possibly the Greatest Time-Waster I have ever seen. It's as though Tempest has come to life. Create your own amoeba, magic rotating pillar-thing, or weird man walker. These little beasties are surprisingly complex and beautiful, even generated and optimized with artificial intelligence for the races. And the AI is winning. (Java applets, fyi)

I Am Curious; Bubble. I've turned into a bubble tea zombie. I just love this stuff, and have 3 bubble tea joints within 3 blocks of my house. Anyone else a slave to Tea 'n' Lumpz?

Curious, George: Digitizing my vinyl music I'm looking for tips, suggestions, and software for converting some of my music on vinyl to digital format. more inside

Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman? an essay by Dinesh D'Souza from the April 2005 edition of American History magazine.

CIA Electronic Reading Room Thousands for formerly secret documents for researchers, enthusiasts, or the simply curious. more inside

Crash Test Kitchen put together by Aussies living in Canada

Hiroshima Peace Site In keeping with today's "Japanese" theme, I thought it was appropriate to post some Hiroshima-related links, seeing that yesterday was 60 years since the US dropped the bomb. more inside

Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts The materials, techniques, terminology and history of various forms of Japanese arts and crafts. more inside

Watching Braveheart

This song is the Japenese obession with eggs. They put eggs on EVERYTHING. Raw eggs on salad, meat, rice...and cooked eggs on almost everything ELSE! They love their eggs. Ignore the little popup thing asking you to download the Language pack. more inside

Uncut - OHH! "The Finnish version of the DuckTales theme sounds very much, to an English-speaker's ear, like an anti-circumcision song." Has sound and may be a little bit NSFW. (via b3ta)

Curious George: Cinema Paradiso. Specifically the kiss montage at the end. I'm trying to find a list of all the film clips shown and my google-fu is failing me. more inside

Why are we laughing? Researchers are asking this question, and have come up with several ideas, if no absolute answers. Are they all wet or on the right track?

Old Hollywood Movie Stills. High quality images too.

WWI Image Archive 'EarlyAviator': Large collection concentrating on air-ware. Includes airships, guns, planes, posters/paintings/badges & death photos. The site could use a makeover with thumbs but compensates with content over appearance. [The death section is pretty benign - nothing gruesome to my mind - mostly crash scenes/graves.]

I dream of old Dean Moriarty. "On the Road", Beat Bible and required reading for any sullen teen wanting to get out of their hick town, finally to make it to the big screen. Brace yourself -- this will either be glorious, or an abomination and sin against nature. more inside

Curious George: Getting out of a Cell Phone contract. I suspect I may be up that famous creek with this, but I thought I'd ask the monkeys and see if I can get some help. more inside

Curious George (yes, another): Wiki Do any Wikis support data fields, or are they all just blobs of text? Reason being... more inside

The worst foods for your health You there! Put that French fry down and come out with your hands up! Actually when it comes to bad foods, the French Fry, though a culprit isn't the worst. #1 on the list is a little suspected breakfast item. And zounds what about that fettucini alfredo?

Greatest Submarine Rescue in History. On 23 May 1939, the submarine Squalus sank in 243 feet of water off Portsmouth, NH when the engine room flooded due to a catastrophic valve failure. 26 men in the after part of the ship were drowned. Thirty-three others, including the commanding officer, LT Oliver F. Naquin, who were in the forward section, were trapped with no way to escape. Thus began the greatest submarine rescue of all time. Also, here's a short story about one of the survivors, Warren Smith. more inside