No Whisper No Sigh. A photo essay from Magnum. Haunting, and worth seeing through to the end.

Get the Glass!!!! Absolutely stunning.

Rare Book Room Wow! In particular the site contains: 1. Some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Darwin and others. 2. Most of the Shakespeare Quartos from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Edinburgh Library, and the National Library of Scotland. It also contains the First Folio from the Folger Library. 3. The LIbrary of Congress ’ copies of Poor Richard ’s Almanac by Benjiman Franklin. 4. Very rare editions: Gutenberg ’s Bible of 1455, Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Siderius Nuncius, the first printing of the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta. Wheee! via MetaWhee

Richard Jeni is tragically dead. Picked up from the blue, but posted here because the man who came up with one of the very funniest things I have ever, ever heard deserves to be noted in his passing, and deserved a passing greater than this. more inside

The Failed Attorney-General. Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held — President Bush’s in-house lawyer — and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference. Fighting words from the New York Times.

Planet of slums. Review of a couple of Mike Davis's recent books. From the review: "There are more than 20 megacities in the developing world. Two of these – Mexico City and Seoul – were ‘hypercities’ (with 20 million inhabitants) at the time he published this book. Since then São Paulo and Mumbai must also have hit the 20 million mark, with Delhi fast approaching it...‘In many cases,’ Davis observes, ‘rural people no longer have to migrate to the city: it migrates to them.’" Here is an interview with Davis.

Curious George Yoooooohoooo!?! It's lonely in here. Sundays are pretty quiet. When and where do you monkeys do your Filtering? more inside

Question of the Day: How Do You Get Crabs From A Gorilla?

Get Rich or Try Lying Fake rich guy (online magazine reporter) surveys a $500-per speed dating event in Gotham. Potential male suitors must make $500k/yr. with a million in the bank. Potential female catches must submit five pictures to prove hotness. Come! For the freaks! Stay! For the show! via $5.00Filter

It's oh so quiet. Yes, its cats. Yes it's stolen from B3TA. Yes, it's Youtube. 'Ave it!!

germy data drives Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data. You guys remember those old spy films where they fished a dot of microfilm off the femme fatal's beauty mark. I imagine that with this new technology the retrevial of data will be a bit more, shall we say, personal. more inside

Britain’s youth worst-behaved in Europe. more inside

R2-D2 Mailboxes ...to celebrate George Lucas and 30 years of Star Wars, the US Postal Service will be dressing up mailboxes like the lovable droid.

Curious George: Oven Self Destruction Curious George: Melted electric oven element? Or, fun with home repair of electric appliances. more inside

CuriousGeorge: WANTED: good, fast, printable b/w map At my work, we regularly and frequently print out street maps. Google Maps makes the best printouts we've see, but it's slow, and the print-outs are poor, as we're doing it on a b/w printer. Here's what I want: (1) A full-page printout with one click. (2) Map formatted in black-n-white for printing. All the other printable map sites I've found want to print half-sheet sized maps, which is unusable to me. Anyone know anything better?

The Man From Maine and Jack LaLanne, LIVE on PAYPAHVIOUU!!!

qaSvI' ngoch cherwI' is trying to win re-election to the Finnish Parliament, by appealing to the Klingon vote. A few words may require the assistance of native speakers of the language, but fortunately, his site is also in English, Swedish, and (obviously) Finnish. Clearly, he is a man ahead of his time.

Yoga at Home - Indian Comic Book The Yoga Institute in Santa Cruz, Mumbai is unique in catering mainly to middle-class Indians who usually have a family and face the pressures of urban life. This 1997 comic book, produced by the institute in the style of popular indian comics of the period, captures the essence of 'householder yoga', giving an idea of how powerful spiritual practices can shape the ethos of an 'ideal' Indian family. In the spirit of the "Action Philosophers" FPP from yesterday, an informative flickr set how-to in convenient look-see picture form. And less o' the talkity talk-talk yappin'. via boingboing more inside

This gets my vote in the Best-Doormat-Ever category.

Airborne cats