Tin. Hats. Ahoy. The perfect storm of conspiracy theories. HST, WTC, NWO...If only a black helicopter had been seen. more inside

Curious George: European Vacation? : My sister and I will be travelling through Europe this summer. Where should we go and what should we see? [MI] more inside

Useful, green urban technology or over-hyped greenwash? This Kitchen-based composter offers a clean, efficient method of composting your kitchen waste. Those of us who already compost using traditional methods, including those who do so inside, may be slightly sceptical of the green benefits of this new device.

Revolved (.torrent). For those of us already tired with those three Kleptones albums (the Detroit to JA mashup, the Queen mashup and the Flaming Lips mashup) I recommend CCC's Revolved album, which combines the Beatles' Revolver with a bunch of other crap. A fun listen, but in my mind not much more than a novelty next to A Night at the Hip-Hopera or Revolver for that matter. They mess with the guitar on She Said, She Said way too much - the highlight of the original album for me.

Brainboost is a search engine that attempts to find answers to plain English queries. I've found it useful in a small way. Here's your challenge ... what question or questions will drive it completely bug-eyed mad?

Bubba the 22-pound lobster was recently caught in the waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts. Apparently he's even set off a battle between PETA and a group calling itself "People For Eating Tasty Animals," and will eventually settle down in a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum more inside

ChoicePoint, Part II Continuing the earlier FPP about this, the LA Times (and others) have uncovered that the same thing happened to ChoicePoint 5 years ago. more inside

Language Garden Does an orangutan find freedom in the gift of words? Do we? more inside

World of Warcraft! Who's up for kicking some butt on Azeroth and Kalimdor? more inside

Game Theory The University of Alberta has a group that's working on mathematically solving a host of popular games, such as checkers, chess, and poker. Some playable demos of their work are available, and they've consulted to a few big computer game companies.

Curious, George: Firefox Sabotage? My wife is having a bizarre Firefox problem on her work computer (brand-new WinXP box, running FF 1.0.1 beta), and both Google and the bug forums on Mozilla fail me... more inside

Baby is hungry and you have no milk? well that's OK...here, feed him this rocket fuel bottle.

Way up wep! At the British Library's website "a remarkable collection of more than 55 hours of audio recordings of English regional accents and dialects went online today" via the Grauniad. Proper job, my lover.

The Sense of Smell Institute. Get ready for Sense of Smell Day (April 30) or read the Fun Facts with Dr Nosetradamus (sigh).

Does this bother anyone other than me? I'm not a Kobe fan. I'm not even a basketball fan. This woman's behavior doesn't say "victim" to me.

Finally, a use for that dormant GMail account. Use it as a great big hard disk that can be accessed from anywhere. more inside

Everything you wanted to know about menstruation. But were too busy dodging plates to ask. Or feeling too rubbish to look up (depending). Includes jokes.

The Cross in Space via bifurcated rivets

It's all about the O. Guess I wasn't the only one whose eye was caught by that commercial. probably USian monkeys only.

Spider man, Man of God. (via)