American police torturing suspected drug user...listen to the tape! When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen...

Indonesian quake toll passes 3,000 And surely will go higher. My thoughts and prayers to all of my friends there...

Bits o' lives o' others: So yeah, I'm a sucker for decent photography, but I'm no expert. However, some nifty slide shows [flash] are too neat to pull away from, and I'm always interested in pics of geologic stuff like the Giant's Causeway (how else do giants get around?). But this, my friends, is the best photo series you'll see all day: Pug Still Life Series (created by my pal Dave, who works at my favorite kitsch shop, Archie McPhee).

Festevil! An international noise festival--make some noise wherever you are at 6:06 pm local time on June 6th! "send in your noise!! - 06/06/06 only happens once every 100 years! - make the most of it! - think of your noise as both contributing to and vanquishing evil, simultaneously!" more inside

Hey, Good-lookin', What Ye Got Cookin'?

Rematch - of possibly the most famous wine tasting ever. It's 30 years on (give or take a few days), so who aged better? more inside

So tacky and yet so cool. Monkeys UNTIE!! Help Trac get those anon links off the sidebar. Post till you drop. This is a post about happy things. A post about nifty things. A post about the greatest lawn ornament ever invented. This has history, people. This has controversy. We owe it all to this man.