Mickey Mouse lookalike directs kids to fight the U.S. and Israel more inside

Gaelic psalm singing Yale music professor Willie Ruff thinks it might be the roots of gospel music in America. Whatever the truth of that, it's one of the most glorious sounds on God's good earth, a profound spiritual happening.

Harsh Words Die Hard on the Web The US law-school-related blog AutoAdmit contains message boards that are reportedly "essentially, a massive toilet of racism and sexism". Said message boards are suspected in preventing some women, otherwise well-qualified, from getting high-profile legal jobs after they were allegedly maligned, objectified, and even threatened therein. The message board's "Chief Education Director"also had a pending job offer rescinded, following publicity of these incidents. Defending the message board's activities as Free Speech proved ineffective relevant to the rescinded job offer. Some say, "Cry me a river." What do You think? via BlueAdmit

Photos by Denis Darzacq.

Map of online communities and related points of interest on genius webcomic xkcd. (previously) Kind of like the map you find at the beginning of a doorstop-sized fantasy book; maybe this should be the first page of the Web? more inside

Curious George: Newsfilter Horrific crime committed in Tennesee. For Monkeys who live out there, they may have heard of it, as it happened in January. I, for one, am honestly surprised that this hasn't gone national. more inside

Babies Watch Lots of TV , so claims a new study from the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute. . . by 3 months of age 40 percent of infants are regular viewers. (10-20 hours/week) That number jumps to 90 percent of 2-year-olds . . . "This study is important because it teaches us about the media diet of infants who are too young to speak for themselves." via linkfilter more inside

The Tomb of Herod the Great has been discovered at Herodium. more inside

Ah, Spring! The sun, the breezes, the corpse flowers in bloom.

Chess Chicks

Death Becomes Her. Bloody hell. The worst I ever did to MY Barbie was give her a 'Sanson haircut'.

Calling crane in the shade Author SJ Marshall's great resource on the 易经, or I-Ching. Use the Book of Changes to access profound insights from the ancients, perhaps add your own hippy claptrap, or even enjoy other surprising interpretations.

Poll: Americans love the queen A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday during the queen's six-day U.S. visit finds that eight in 10 Americans have a favorable view of the British monarch. This comes despite the fact that four in 10 believe Britain would be better off without a royal family. Quite.

Hitler's moustache. His moustache is the most instantly recognisable - and sinister - in history. Yet, according to new research into Adolf Hitler's early life, the distinctive, toothbrush shape that adorned his scowling face was not his first preference.

International Klein Blue more inside

The Random Collections is a collection of "images gathered from the internet, from free sites, via e-mail from our visitors." The collection contains many kick-ass time wasters such as porn bread(NSFW), a penguin church, how to make a tampon pistol(NSFW), or even amazing metal art Warning! Dangerous to productivity! (Some entries NSFW)

What is wisdom?

psst. guess what's here. I give it 5 years. 10, tops.

Goodbye everyone, I no longer feel welcome here, or that kinship I was searching for. Well I tried pleasing everyone and it's just waisting my time. No, you mutated children, crossbreeds between hagfish and a puddle of babboon vomit, just FLAT OUT ASSUMED that I am some drugged-out fluffy who plays violent video games and names Deities after them. quidnunc, i sincerly hope that you hump a tree. Not looking for sympathy or anything either. Just pointing something out before I take my leave of this community. more inside

D.A.N.C.E. The coolest t-shirts ever. [video] More on Justice