A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican... Horror in London Park!

"Paris Syndrome" - It's so horrible it will make you have a psychotic break.

A Good News Day for Scott Adams The creator of Dilbert lost he voice 18 months ago due to Spasmodic Dysphonia. There is no cure. Yet he has managed to work out how to speak again. more inside

ITunes code "cracked" Adds extra layer of "copy protection". Real Soon Now -- shop around for your iPodian needs.

Bush Uses The Google Yes, hot on the heels of the megahit "The Internets", the red hot despotic act POTUS releases a new single The Google, on which the eponymous "Google Maps" is misunremembered, but email - is eschewed. more inside

Son of Weird Animal News! We lead with a Snoring Horse that has a life-saving operation on its hooter. Elsewhere, a duck kills a giant Pike but does not live to quack. And that's not all! more inside

Tokyo Zombie! LA Zombie! Florence Zombie! Texas Zombie! Hawaii Zombie! Adelaide Zombie! Winnipeg Zombie! New York Zombie! Kitchener Zombie! At radio free #mofirc [listen!] we have a lot of zombies. What we need is some fresh blood and brains.... Mmmmm braaaains.... more inside

The 2006 Living Planet Report was released by the WWF today. The group’s biennial statement on the state of the natural world, says that on current projections humanity will be using two planets’ worth of natural resources by 2050 — if those resources have not run out by then. more inside

Comic Cover Database (over 120,000 comic covers)

Phase toy Via things magazine

Something Stinks in Norway The smell of home ... more inside

Boing Boing Blogs Beautiful Book Building, Bashes 'Bashi. Brilliant! more inside

Pumpkin Carving With Klingons. And a cat. via

Amazing New Product! Erstaunliches Neues Produkt! Products. Useful. Sleek. You will buy or possibly make them! vom blauen Filter der Liebe

Foley-Phile? Play along at home with the Mark Foley action figure! With kung-fu grip (on a bottle of hooch) and pants-falling fun! more inside

Guinevere Project cancelled - I don't know why, but something has happened to the British Rocket Group's project to send a probe to Mars.

Coke vs. Pepsi takes on a new meaning in San Juan Chamula, a village where Mayan indigenous beliefs intersect with Christianity. While it is illegal to take photos inside the local church [based upon a Mayan belief regarding the travel of the soul through mirrors], you can catch a glimpse here [if you dare!]

Identify the movies depicted with office supplies I just cannot get the one with the markers on either side of the dotted line or the one with the person under the roll of tape, despite searching here and here

Rendez-vous des singes. Roryk and I are having a monkey meetup somewhere in Paris, on Monday, November 20th. Sometime after 18h00. Please consider this your open invitation to join us, and/or suggest where we could go to stop our blood-alcohol levels from becoming dangerously low. more inside

Pictures of Geckos Eating Jam - Geckos at Wikipedia. Do you like Geckos?