Ragtime by Perfessor Bill Edwards. Midi can vary greatly, but most of these are superb, the best I've ever heard. Aside from Midi, The Perfessor's a pianist and composer of considerable attainments; his site also gives lyrics for many old songs, plus showing a number of original and early sheet music covers. more inside

Larry levels banana crop. Massive cyclone hits Australia's east coast. No levees breached but bananas toast. more inside

ASCII Art - 1948

In September 2005, Neil Gaiman discovered a demonic tomato in his garden. Sensibly enough he decided to make evil salsa out of it. Website Tomatoes Are Evil heard about Neil's evil fruit and linked to it as an example of a vicious killer tomato. Now Neil is being threatened with possible legal action by Branfman and Associates [warning: embedded music(!)] on behalf of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, who claim Neil has violated their trademark by linking to them from Tomatoes Are Evil. Except, uh, Neil doesn't run Tomatoes Are Evil, and has not linked to anything to do with AotKT. more inside

The Laurence Hutton Princeton University Collection of Death Masks And even more over here.

Johnny Lydon On Jimmy Kimmel The Rotten Man tells Kimmel why the Sex Pistols refused their induction to the Rock $ Roll Hall of Fame.

Elmyr de Hory: the greatest art forger of the 20th century. more inside

SUPER COLOSSAL .. Satriani - brilliant as ever! Listen here to entire CD.

Spielberg Inc. Gives Apache Girl $325,000 Haircut

Architecture against Death. Because "people, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline". more inside

Cuba and Japan will face each other in the inaugural World Baseball Classic final tomorrow. With Japan finally beating Korea in their third meeting, and Cuba beating the Dominican Republic, the World Baseball Classic is about to end.

The Lulu Blooker Prize : serious literary venture, or shameless attempt to draw more hapless victims into self-publishing their worthless maunderings?

Futurama is going to be renewed for television with 26 episodes. According to Billy West.

A large and previously unknown reservoir of water ice may have been found below the surface of Mars, new radar observations suggest. You can use the new Google Mars to prospect the sites for yourself. You'll have to, because the astonishing longevity of the twin Martian Rovers looks to be coming to an end, and they won't be able to help you. more inside

La liberté Also known as civil war. more inside

Stolen Van Gogh returned, seven years later.

Collection of WWII booklets from Stars and Stripes. Stars & Stripes published a series of G.I. Stories of the Ground, Air, and Service Forces in Paris in 1944-1945. Each booklet was approximately 32 pages in length and small enough to fit in a uniform pocket and to conveniently mail home. Originals of these booklets are getting very expensive, but the page has links to most of them online.

Mind-opening lectures on the physiology of stress. The work of Robert Sapolsky.

1972 Documentary on ARPAnet, the precursor of the modern internet. This is a Google video approx 30 min. Rather piercing moog Mozart at the beginning. more inside

Curious George: photo gallery on a website I am looking for a way to share photos via my website. I have used Flickr, but without paying for the Pro account one cannnot download/view the original full resolution of the photo. I would like people to see the photos at full res. I checked OSWD for a good template but the designs coupled with my poor skills in setting up the page was not a great help. I tried Pixelpost but could not get past all the technical stuff setting up a database. Ideas? Am I too hopeful, and should I shell out for a pro account?