Photo walkthroughs of wicked NYC pads. Plus scads of other domestic goodness for the snarfling, like sake sets for $5, fritata recipes, spin-around electrical outlets, and where to find adhesive hippie flower bathtub-floor deslipifiers.

A new species of leopard has been discovered in Borneo, the latest of more than 400 species discovered since 1996. A very handsome animal it is too. more inside

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Protecting Splenda Johnson & Johnson and Tate & Lyle, developers of sucralose, or as it's known commercially, Splenda, have spent a bunch of money and effort buying up any domain name that might possibly show their product in a negative light including www.splendakills.com, .org, .biz and .info. Apparently this is some sort of preemptive strike for when publicity eventually turns against them? via.

Which microlender makes best use of my $20?

The convoluted politics of zombie cinema. Yet another discussion of what being a walking cannabalistic corpse in today's modern age all means. Erudite and nerdy!

Life-Sized Blue Whale. more inside

Control Panel Get your g33k on.

Hollywood Bizarro: Notstarring.com chronicles the roles that actors either didn't get or turned down: Christopher Lee as Grand Moff Tarkin! Chevy Chase as Forrest Gump! Russel Crowe as Aragorn!

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Sonnet Central features lots of sonnets in English, and a fair few translations. You may also enjoy having some read to you (real audio), or the monthly battle of the sonnets. more inside

Gotta lub them 404s Get your froggy 404 here. You like 'em adult, amusing, creepy, geeky, interactive, or shocking? The Research Lab has 'em all.

What's so funny? Laughter, a topic that stymied philosophers for 2,000 years, is finally yielding to science. Researchers have scanned brains and tickled babies, chimpanzees and rats. They’ve traced the evolution of laughter back to what looks like the primal joke — or, to be precise, the first stand-up routine to kill with an audience of primates. more inside

The Drawing Adventure by Ian Stevenson (main link youtube)

Monster Brains (a weblog looking at horror artwork and other interesting things)

Prank Calling While Under the Influence Nothing says, "Celebrate the Saint who brought the Gospels to Ireland *MORE* than getting drunk, saying stupid shit, and prank calling a hotline for precisely that purpose." Erin Go Bragh, Boozehounds...

Viacom launches billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube for "massive" copyright infringement. YouTube is going to crumble like so many crumbling crumblethings. AND I SAY GOOD RIDDANCE! more inside

OMG NFW! Allegedly, national sorority Delta Zeta attempted to reinvigorate interest in it's DePauw University house by evicting the less-attractive, "socially-awkward" or inappropriately ethnic members. The ousted members were "recommended for alumna status" - off campus. Oh, and the sorority has been asked to leave campus too. more inside

...I can report that the possibility of Conrad being acquitted is regarded there as marginally less likely than Elvis turning up as a courtroom usher. more inside

Tuesday Fun: Paint with pixels, watch a cartoon, and escape a dungeon.