The Inner Life of a Cell. An 8-minute Flash production that may be the most eerily beautiful thing you see today. And just try not to laugh at the motor protein shuffling along in fuzzy slippers.

Life at Low Reynolds Number "Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced." more inside

Is it live?!

How Time is Perceived in Comics - Steven Grant at Comic Book Resources explains.

Changing the past? What if we could? Scientists haven't ruled the possibility out ... more inside

Afghanistan, marijuana and white phosphorous. O_O

Chernoff Faces "Chernoff faces display multivariate data in the shape of a human face." more inside

radio free #mofirc : an Internet radio station by and for the members of #mofirc and Monkeyfilter. more inside

Grameen Bank wins 2006 peace prize. It's a simple but powerful idea: microcredit. "Dilwara Begum became a Grameen borrower 11 years ago. She began with just one milk cow. Then, about four years ago, another loan helped build a poultry barn, a productive enterprise that takes the whole family to manage. The weekly yield of about 7,000 eggs is picked up every other day and taken to the capital, Dhaka, about three hours away." more inside

Ornithopter - First successful* flight in the news. *Success is a relative concept. [9MB mpg] more inside

Eros and Modern Art (NSFW), an exhibition at the Foundation Beyeler, following their previous Eros: Rodin and Picasso (NSFW).

Tito: male belly dancer. He's starting to shake... He's starting to shimmy... Gotta admit, dude's got moves. But he also does martial arts stick dancing, which is very, very manly. *cough* [youtubey goodness]. more inside

Tiny Dinosaur Theory - also, Ugly Overload. Via everlasting blort

LOTR quizzes from "The Thain's Book", an online LOTR encyclopaedia. My best score is a miserable 56.2%.

A Low Impact Woodland Home and all for 3,000 quid. Warning: link may contain beards

More tiny people in big-people settings.

Flight Patterns

Auckland MeFi meetup Monkeys are bound to be welcome at tomorrow's Mefi meetup in Cornwall Park. Bananas optional. Sorry for the late notice - we'll do better next time.

How to dispose of an elephant carcass - the FAO is brimming over with Interesting Stuff: more inside

Calvin & Hobbes Mash-Up - I'm not sure who came up with this, but it made me unspeakably sad.