Sensitive Light: a Portfolio of Photographs by Graham Jeffery. Excellent photographs, with galleries by subject and a blog. more inside

Curious George: I need a graphic artist to design a logo I want a logo for letterhead and business cards for my new law practice. more inside

Revenge of the Sith

"Revenge of the Sith" is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the "Star Wars" prequel the haters have been bitching for since "Menace" came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying.

Strong words. And I almost believed him until this: more inside

"Twelve napkin folds you don't have to remember, just bookmark this page." Myself, I like the naughty one. (Never fear, quite SFW. It's a NAPKIN, after all.)

The politics of backlash. Great article on why blue-collar America is going over to the Republicans and how liberals still don't get it. more inside

A Call to Arms! Or at least a call to set pens to paper... A very good friend of my wife and I is in her last month of pregnancy. Yesterday, her OB put her on complete and total bedrest rest for the next three or more weeks. Our little monkey brains started scheming on how to make our friend's enforced confinement as a very pregnant beached whale bearable. more inside

SciFiNoir deleted Apparently, Yahoo won't let people talk about current events on their groups.

Man Tries to Pay for Pizza With Pot Police arrested a 21-year-old man early Saturday after he allegedly assaulted a pizza delivery driver who refused to take marijuana as payment for a pie.

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