Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation

The prehistoric version of middleclasstool's workshop has been found.

Before the end of the last ice age, a hunter-gatherer left a bag of tools near the wall of a roundhouse residence, where archaeologists have now found the collection 14,000 years later.

(Note: ancient overalls were not found.)

Hitler's English Love Child He knocked up Nazi nob Unity Mitford, who then spawned. Maybe

The Lives They Left Behind - a haunting examination of suitcases and trunks found in the attic of an abandoned psychiatric center. more inside

Kucinich booted from Iowa debate. The Des Moines Register informed the campaign that Kucinich is not invited because the newspaper determined “that a person working out of his home did not meet our criteria for a campaign office and full-time paid staff in Iowa.” Once again, credit to the H Dogg.

Videogaiden The BBC's computer games show, now on the internet. From the people who brought us Consolevania, which is probably the best video games show ever made more inside

Cooties PSA. I thought this was amusing, having been obsessed with not catching boy cooties in the 4th grade. But I'd never heard the cooties innoculation chant until today! We just used invisible cootie spray. What were your playground cootie or other rhymes and chants, and where did you live at that time? (I was in Dayton, Ohio.)

'Embuggerance': British humorist Terry Pratchett, 59, diagnosed with "rare form of early onset Alzheimer's." more inside

Binocular Soccer. A new Olympic sport? Should be! Another product of Takeshi Kitano's comic genius.

That should be errata. Northern Exposed regrets the error. One million murders in Detroit. 40-45 pounds of shrimp. Dewey beats Truman. And more!

A tough-guy's Christmas Story (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). more inside

Who ate all the pies? Um...me! Dog nearly ruins fat blert's chances.

Buy less crap this year. Please! Nothing here that won't be familiar to most MoFians but it doesn't hurt to have a timely seasonal reminder that our profligate lifestyle's days are necessarily numbered. (Flash Animation) more inside

Ike Turner 1931-2007. The man who wrote the first rock and roll song has died at his home in San Diego.

The comic genius of Tina Fey. A nice little well-linked essay on Tina Fey, and why 30 Rock is the best show on TV right now (despite our earlier predictions)

JELLY ROLL It must be .. (?) .. coz Jelly don't wobble like that!

How to pose. Not much else to say really. I'll let you monkeys do the clever commentary on this one.

On U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. From a link posted by the ever-vigilant thread updater H Dawg in the Giuliani thread.

"...sometimes the cabin gets airborne and comes down with a thump..." Justin Jones and James Castrission are about midway through a trans-Tasman kayak journey, hoping to be the first to kayak from Australia to New Zealand. They left Forster, north of Sydney, on November 13 in a heavily modified kayak with cabin large enough to sleep the paddlers top-and-tail, and with plenty of computer hardware for nav tracking and communication. However, their tall, square cabin is causing them to move backwards at about 1km/hour in head winds. Whatever: we here in NZ are just hoping they stay alive. more inside

This may be the most awesomest music video evar. more inside