Curious George: Computer security. Can anyone point me to a geeky resource that shows all the points to hit for hardenening a personal Windows 2000 computer from exploits? more inside

The hunt for #928. In 1967, an A-12 blackbird crashed in the Nevada desert on its return to the Groom Lake airbase. Almost 30 years later, Tom Mahood set out to find the crash site. It's a story of modern archaeology that has top secret black titanium spy-planes, codenamed compatriots, CIA coverup stories, FOIA requests, and some great detectiving. Plus, he sinks his truck. more inside

Odiferous George: The smell of rot wafts from my neighbor's woodshed... more inside

Strange, Beautiful Little Ballad This is a bit overly gothed out for me... but I like the idea of a long running internet comic, and the simple art blows me away.

Conquerous George Okay, so I've decided to take over my back garden and declare it as an independent state. I haven't decided on the name yet; Finnegestan, maybe, or Piss Off. Anyhoo, I was wondering how I'd go about getting my country internationally recognised. I want the whole shebang: tea with Chirac, talks late into the night about drilling rights, discussion about the fishing boundaries in that little pond at the end. Is there someone I need to talk to about this? Some list I need to add my name onto? How do I go about joining the UN? And do I get any additional rights in England as a sovereign of another country, should I decide to sometimes leave mine to get some groceries or something?

Flash Flipbook Fun DIY flash based flip books to share. more inside

MoFi meetup weekend party It's a house-party meetup in Southern Ontario, the weekend of August 5th through 7th. more inside

Teletext porn For those times that C64 porn just isn't lo-fi enough more inside

The die is cast, you will cut the mustard or face the music . What say you?  

The story of a Cambodian girl named S'kun (a/k/a Srei Kor, "deaf mute woman" in Khmer). She is a girl who was sniffing glue and living on the streets of Phnom Penh, when she was noticed by an expat American photographer. I think the five part story he wrote about her is very much well worth the read. (As is the rest of his site: Tales of Asia). more inside

This is the strangest example of internet collaboration. You visit the site. You 'get' it. You submit your own oo. It goes on and on.

Bjork at 40
Some Bjork videos & interviews.

This is the dumbest, most pretentious thing I have ever seen.

Curious George My Google-fu has failed me. I have a bunch of mp3s on my harddrive that I want to burn on cd, and I want the cd to play on regular players. I find all sorts of programs to do this on a PC, but none for my 10.2.8 OSX ass... Help?

The Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederick Sandys and Ford Madox Brown, among others. Their beginnings, and their varied faces. more inside

J. Ralph: Ad Tune Master Millions of people listen to J. Ralph's music, yet he's far from a household name. (Link goes to "All Things Considered" interview, with other good stuff, like three full-length songs from his new CD, and links to his website) more inside

The Forgery Indictments and Biblical Archaeology Review - Learning from Hindsight. Via Ralph the Sacred River

The tragic story of the Lady Be Good. This WWII B24 bomber was lost in 1943 over the harsh Libyan desert hundreds of miles south of its base, due to a simple navigational error. As their plane ran out of fuel, believing they were still over the Mediterranean, the nine crewmen bailed out wearing their Mae West life preservers ...

Do a search on eBay for "monkeyfilter" more inside

40 things that only happen in the movies. I'd like to add one more: many, if not most of the people in many movies smoke cigarettes and no one ever notices, or objects. The smokers never ask permission either.