Clean your dirty CD's with a banana! Utilizing the special fruitons and other waxagens, the banana makes a perfect CD cleaner! Simply eat, wipe, and shine! It might be the Windex though. via Gizmodo

Karl, we hardly knew ya... Karl Rove to resign at the end of August. Resign for real.

OOH, SHINEY! Interesting messing about by astrophysicists. "Ooooo, it makes ya wonder .." Or is it .. "Well hell, I knew that!"

World's smallest pancake recipe. Via

StoryCorps. "StoryCorps is modeled—in spirit and in scope—after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the 1930s, through which oral history interviews with everyday Americans across the country were recorded. These recordings remain the single most important collection of American voices gathered to date. We hope that StoryCorps will build and expand on that work, becoming a WPA for the 21st Century." Some great stuff here.