Ice Worms. 'Kind of hot right now.'

Chocolate milk. The new sports drink. I told ya!

Force Skeptics - 'Ladies and Gentlemen, you have been bamboozled. The Force is a fiction that exists only in the minds of deluded Jedi practitioners. The so-called "Jedi Powers" are nothing more than cheap stage-magic tricks that anyone can learn and which violate no known laws of physics. The Masters of the Jedi Order are charlatans, preying upon your gullibility and demanding your blind respect in return.' Seen @ Spiflicated Bivalves

"No One Anticipated the Breech of the Levees" WASHINGTON (AP) -- In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. more inside

Ah-ooga, it's MoFiLA meetup? Ooga_booga is coming to LA this weekend, and will be here Saturday and Sunday. Is anyone up for a Saturday evening dinner/drinky thing or a Sunday brunch? more inside

Today in Science History. Short paragraphs (most with links) chronicling the day in science. more inside

Don't be a worry wart. What could possibly go wrong?

The fall colours' chemistry. It's autumn down under and this takes all the romance out of those pretty colours.

Where can you buy a watch that doesn't appear to be able to tell the time, flashes random colors, and is called the Pimp Pleasure Seeker? Why, Japan, of course.

Curious 30-something George How much of the 90s do you remember? And what does "The 90's" mean to you? I just noticed that 6 Degrees of Separation is at the top of my netflix queue. Somehow this movie epitomizes the 90's for me, so I thought what the hey, why not host a 90's themed party to watch it! How would you go about it? more inside

Curious Coldfusion George. I need to make my database of PDF's available online. more inside

Who wants to be a Chinese Mucus Monitor? The local government in Beijing says it's launching a campaign against the common habit of hocking up lurgies in public. According to the BBC. But in 2003 the Scottish Sunday Herald explained that fines were already being enforced due to the outbreak of SARS. And while many sites claim spitting is illegal, I pretty much spat the dummy just trying to find out what countries it actually was illegal to cough one up. more inside

Curious Pineapple George Okay, pineapples were on sale today and this monkey 's never eaten a real one. I couldn't resist. Now Spiney Piney is sitting here on the counter bristling defiant. Deliciousness inside. But tough unchewable spiny outside. Now I sad. Help me oh monkey brothers and sisters. I want to eat.

This just in - Bush is a liberal! Yes, just in time to salute the flaming wreckage of the worst administration in American history as it plummets to earth like so much half-chewed fish, the new right-wing meme: Bush is actually a liberal! more inside

If Microsoft packaged iPod (parody) more inside

A Short Musical. Martin Short, SCTV Alum, cameo king, Tony Award winner and general Hollywood pissant, has come up with a musical based on his own life story (which is, basically, Marty biting at the teat that suckles him). more inside

Monkey-people discovered in Turkey Lifted from daily monkey. Ah, daily monkey....

Got an old Sega CD game system and 16 hours to kill? A rare copy of "Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors" has surfaced... more inside

Cleveland March Meetup this Thrusday, 3/2 @ 8:00: Several of us are already going and MeFi/MoFi/MeCha, lurkers, non-member readers and paparazzi are all welcome at Edison's Pub in Tremont. Details inside.

Ahh.. Bras What wonders of engineering, all in all I like them. Not porn, unless you want it to be, nevertheless NSFW. Via:1 & 2