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We're #8! Stuart Brown discovers that the Internet's #8 password is... you know. Taken together, his top 10 passwords are used by 1.8% of Internet users. The top 100 passwords are used by an amazing 6.5% of people. (May not apply precisely outside the UK.) If your password is on that list, change it today!

Talk 2 Action Article via BoingBoing

Curious George: Wedding Filter Help save me from the hell of wedding planing! I'm overseas right now and trying to plan a wedding in California. more inside

Aw, hey, whattya know? Another pancake with Jesus on it! Anybody want to buy it?

Why bush won. Some silly pictures comparing Bush with that other guy.

Curious George: I've been condemned to browser hell Firefox I.5.0.3 went nuts on me a few hours ago -- anyway I finally broke what was left of into pieces and trashed them. more inside

Link Wikipedia and Google Maps Put a pin in a Google Map, and link it to a Wikipedia entry. more inside

How vinyl records are made (youtube)

The Edinburgh Cow Parade

The Mr. Heterosexual 2006 Pageant was the brainchild of Pastor Tom Crouse, who believes that it is "time that heterosexuals were shown some tolerance." more inside

Lost and found. 14 yr old kid's wallet found, right where he dropped it in 1971. (No word on a circ-circ-circular impression.) [via obscurestore]

Mathematical Imagery from the American Mathematical Society. more inside

Don't Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July. Why couldn't Robert Lansberry get his mail? (Via Mindhacks, inspired by AskMe.)

A lesson on cleaning your hard drive before selling your computer. Amir sells his old laptop, claiming it works fine when it doesn't. The buyer, apparently unable to reclaim his money, finds some rather personal content on the laptop's hard drive including a doctored passport and lots of photos of women's legs.

The fantastic illustrations of Frank R Paul more inside

Rob Newman's History of Oil This 45 minute google video (some language NSFW) just blew my mind. via Metafilter.

Welcome to the Spock Casa - getting wired up at the coffee shop, down with kareoke, or just relaxing with James at the pool. (The above are YouTube links) more inside

Peruse or perish. With somewhat bemused interest, one has been absorbing opinion, garnished with a variety of perceptions and intelligent observation, the comments generated from the post of ActuallySettle. Thus one has been inspired to embark upon a quest for elucidation upon a subject one might venture to describe, mayhap, as one of miriad perceptions upon what constitutes an and/or descriptor of tribal social mores; mores one might say, which have evolved to become almost an entity separate to the desire of that initial drive toward a social structure. A social structure which evolved to ensure, individually and collectively, a sense of safety within such an agreed unity with one's fellows. To one's somewhat wry amusement, one discovered this site and link within; Aussie words