Curious George and his car tunes. Well, summer cruisin' season is upon us. Time to roll down all the wagon's windows, drape your arm over the door, and staight-arm steer at two o'clock, blasting out tunes all over the nieghbourhood and having the bass reverb dislodge all the plastic in your car. What cruisin' tunes do you prefer, to aid in your non-chalant pissing-off of everyone within earshot? more inside

Learn English as you exercise. TV in Japan presents (via YouTube) Zuiikin English. These mesmerizing videos feature a short dramatic sequence followed by phrase repetition while aerobic exercising. more inside

Valve publishes statistics from players of Half Life 2: Episode 1, collated using Steam. Warning - contains Half Life 2: Episode 1 spoilers, although you probably guessed that. more inside

Trailers of Historically Significant Films

Cur-IRC-ous George IRC hates me. Help! more inside

McDonalds - Global Sanctum? "Indeed, despite its vaunted reputation as a juggernaut of American culture, McDonald's has come to function as an ecumenical refuge for travelers of all stripes. This is not because McDonald's creates an American sense of place and culture, but because it creates a smoothly standardized absence of place and culture — a neutral environment that allows travelers to take a psychic time-out from the din of their real surroundings." Still, I had fun visiting India, Russia, Japan, South Africa and some quirky Island. more inside

RIP Arif Mardin Ace record producer (Aretha, Averge White Band, Chaka Khan ...) rocks no more.

Man, I had forgotten how good Pete Seeger is. One thing I never knew though, was he had his own TV show. Luckily youtube has our back: The Weavers (he was a member) Mississippi John Hurt: part 1, part 2, and himself with Johnny and June Carter Cash. (For a little variety Pete on the Johnny Cash show.) more inside

The Thief and The Cobbler: Recobbled Filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist attempts to contruct of a final cut of Richard Williams epic, unfinished, animation project from a variety of sources that look like film, animatic, pencil tests, and video. more inside

It's nearly November Can't think of what to write about? No problemo: Random Logline Generator is here to help you. more inside

The Paul Daniels' eBay Transactions Blog. I'm sure many of us recall magician Paul Daniels' heyday in the 1980s with his lovely assistant Debbie. (He has his own blog, btw.) Someone discovered his eBay username and is blogging everything Paul buys and sells, including complex commentary on the bidding process. Another example of having too much time on your hands.

Herr Bear, we bury ya in Bavaria. "Bruno" -- the first wild brown bear to be sighted in Germany in over 170 years -- was shot dead over the weekend. more inside

Boys are more likely to grow up gay if they have older brothers - because of biology, rather than upbringing. more inside

THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES by SABINE BARING-GOULD more inside

Gabbly - Just add 'gabbly.com/' in front of any URL & you can have a little chat client spawn in the window. It allows you to chat around any webpage. It’s free to use! /wonders how long this will last

Geneology? LAME! If you really want to see whence you came, you can participate in the Genographic Project, which uses a sample of your DNA to delineate the travels of those who begot you. more inside

The New Shadow: Tolkien's quickly abandoned sequel to Lord of the Rings. more inside

Just in case you plan on kidnapping someone. Seriously, who has time to do all that cutting and pasting?

Boonville California is a small town in the Coast Range Mountains between the Sonoma Valley wine country and the Mendocinoo Coast. It's a scenic area and largely agricultural, but it's most widely know for Boontling, a folk language created there in the 1800s. With a vocabulary, of over a 1000 words, it was remarkable to hear. But, sadly, it's on the brink of pikin' to the dusties.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. But, there is Littlewood's law, which states that we each can expect a miracle to happen to us at the rate of about once a month. It appears our grip on reality is slim. more inside