Trees, Old and Odd more inside

Curious George: How to unload unneeded hotel reservations? Is there a good way to find someone who may need hotel reservations in Indianapolis for the Final Four? more inside

Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents were released to the public last week. Titles such as "A Report on a Cartoon Character Called "Pokemon" and "Propaganda By Iraq TV including dancing and singing with Iraq national songs, praising Saddam Hussein's achievements for Iraq and shouting dreadful words against the United States" should prove interesting for a dull Friday afternoon. more inside

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts David Byrne and Brian Eno's groundbreaking 1981 album sounds just as fresh and new today. But now it's even fresher and newer with a new remastered and extended version coming out shortly. The accompanying site has lots of information, sounds and sights to go along with the rerelease. Sort of Friday Flash-y stuff, but not really...

Word! White boys can't rap. (NSFW lyrics.) more inside

The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll Scenario A: Twelve guys with boxcutters + 1 guy in a cave. Scenario B: (Scenario A + Government incompetence). Scenario C: LIHOP - (The Government Let It Happen On Purpose). Scenario D: MIHOP (The Government Made It Happen On Purpose). Pick. more inside

16th C. Spanish ship found thanks to Hurricane Ivan. Another storm has exposed formerly-unknown parts of Louisbourg.

The Most Important Algorithms. Among them - A* search algorithm, Beam Search, Binary Search, Buchberger's algorithm, Dijkstra's Algorithm and others.

Women's dime novels are the subject of Felicia L. Carr's site, based on her dissertation. Women's stories were one of the main kinds of dime (never 'dime-store'!) novels, though more typical were tales of derring-do. more inside

Quotes for She(ehan), Not For Thee - Like Cindy Sheehan, Julia Conover lost her son in Iraq to a suicide bomber. Unlike Sheehan, she apparently doesn't have the "absolute moral authority" of a grieving mother... more inside

A recent bug report to Mozilla demonstrates some...privacy issues. more inside

Curious George: Proctology. Why does a doctor decide to specialize in proctology? Is there professional interest in rectums, anuses, and colons? Are graduate classes for it cheap? Or are they paid better than other specialties? I want to put on my gloves and get to the bottom of this!

Barbara Bush Donates to Katrina Fund Lovely. She also specifies that the "undisclosed amount" must go to education. Spiffy. Specifically, to her son Neil's company. Oh. more inside

Political George: For all our talk in Canadia about America mucking with our politics, how much influence do they really have in our policy making? How at risk are we of Americanization? more inside

Who's Alive and Who's Dead? A nice but depressing website that tells you which famous people of a certain age are still breathing and which ones have shuffled off the mortal coil. Frequently updated. Settle all your bar bets here. You can sort by category. Apologies if this is a double. I searched and didn't see it but it seems so MoFi that I wouldn't be surprised.

Curious, George: "What's So Civil 'Bout War, Anyway?": I'm researching the American Civil War and the Reconstruction. I'm having trouble figuring out who this Johnny Reb guy is, but he seems to be everywhere, man! more inside

If only I looked better in tights... Stan Lee is teaming up with the SciFi channel to come up with his next comic book idea. As Mrs. Moondoggie told me: "Can you imagine what that casting calls going to look like?" Yes, I've sheltered her from the horrors of cosplay. via more inside

Graphic pain, may not be safe for some. This is insane. I can't imagine being able or willing to sit through this. This kid has a love for pain.

A step-by-step guide to using the greatest spread in the world. (If you don't agree, you're just an uncultured barbarian, and probably a Seppo.)

Vermonts platform cairns and stone chambers are mysterious lithic features that are not well known, but have caught the attention of archaeoastronomers and are even the basis of a horror novel.