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Shaggy checks out what's available...very silly. Flash w/ sound more inside

Ask a scientist. more inside

Architonic - Mid-Century, Modern Design Database more inside

The Mother of All Traitors

Star Wars as it should have been I haven't laughed so hard in all of 2005. Watch this and you'll see why. Enjoy.

Curious George: Ow So today I had two impacted wisdom teeth removed. My dentist is lovely but didn't explain the aftermath too well. [The more inside could be gross.] more inside

Fetal tissue heals burns. An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully healed severe burns in eight children, sparing them the need for skin grafts. Did you hear that noise? That was the sound of Bill Frist's head exploding.

Group Wants to Transplant African Animals to the Great Plains Of course, parallels were drawn between this and how Australia has suffered because of relocation of animals, but the foreign, distructive, animals in Australia were taken there for entirely different reasons. more inside

The Baldwin Project "seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923."

Piersh Broshnan makesh it offishial. In the leasht shurprishing newsh shurrounding the Jamesh Bond dynashty, Piersh hash been outshted. Not a bad shpell, I'd shay, but obvioushly Broshnan never reached the hieghtsh of the true mashta, but letsh be honesht -- Shean ish a shingula pershonality, and there CAN only be one. more inside

Martin Bower's Model World Models form Space 1999 and Alien and Dr Who and Blake's 7 and...

Olympic Lobbying If a proposed bill goes through, it 'will make it illegal to combine words like "games", "medals", "gold", "2012", "sponsor" or "summer" in any form of advertising.' No more "Summer Hits". No more "Gold Cards". No more bongs for heroic deeds. And the calendar will jump a year. More proof that the (say it with me) OLYMPICS has nothing to do with sport.

Jean Charles de Menezes was shot down in cold blood. The man shot dead by police shortly after the July 21 bombing attempts didn't run away, he didn't leap the ticket barrier, and he wasn't wearing a padded coat. more inside

Electric Stuff, antique glass thingies, vunderbar old ads for electronic bits, Nixie tubes, dekatrons, counting tubes and dangerous home-brew high-voltage devices.

"Stay hopeful that the crystalline amoeba poops your car out soon."

The Sarcastic Sex Toys blog (NSFW) features reviews of interesting and poorly-named devices such as the "Fist of Adonis" and "Sure Grip Tighten-Her Cream." [via the similarly NSFW Fleshbot]

Burlesque and Side Degree Specialties, Paraphernalia and Costumes. The 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Catalog of Fraternal Supplies. more inside

Hard-Core Stalinist propaganda, Juche style. A searchable database of a decade's worth of KCNA articles, with added insult generator and a handy Juche Era conversion tool.

Leonard Cohen is broke. Please help. Only YOU can help Leonard Cohen. (Sorry for posting twice in one day, but this is Earth-shattering stuff for me...) more inside