The Daily Coyote. "Charlie came into my life when he was just ten days old, orphaned after both his parents were killed. He lives with me and a tomcat in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming." [Via MeFi.]

Mystery Meat Macrophotography

The Comprehensive Bunny Name List - NOTE: Use of this list to obtain names for kitties, puppies, gerbils, hamsters, or other fuzzy pets is an abuse of this service and will not be tolerated. Tip o'the cock to Blort

Canadians killing the planet with their beer fridges.

Interactive graph of the most influential directors & companies in the US. . Mapping the ruling class more inside

Curious George: If you live in one of the Canadian Maritime Provinces, what hockey team do you root for?

Daredevil Evel Knievel dead at 69

Friday Flash Video Fun Warning: contains cow dismembering and manipulation by creative aliens. Via.

A junior history major at the University of Texas writes an informative article in defense of dresses. more inside

Zombie cockroaches can now be brought back to life! Thank you, science!

Lost bracelet found 25 years later... inside a chicken. more inside

The King of Thailand causes pink shirt fever. They can be dangerous, express solidarity, or fight breast cancer. You can get Pink shirts in any colour, but perhaps you shouldn't. Still, if they're good enough for Palermo...

Frederick Wiseman. According to reason.

Shaolin: Temple of Zen. Nifty photos. And here is a movie about the Shaolin. (Second link YouTube.)

Chocolate Bunny (youtube). It is oddly horrifying

SelfpostFilter Returns Post your accomplishments, your own web content, anything you've made, anything you're selling (although, uh, please not your eBay auction selling your nosehair, that's just icky). The continuation of this thread which is now too big and unwieldy to read.

What makes us moral. "Morality may be a hard concept to grasp, but we acquire it fast. A preschooler will learn that it's not all right to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not. If the rule is lifted and eating is approved, the child will happily comply. But if the same teacher says it's also O.K. to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates...In both cases, somebody taught the child a rule, but the rule against pushing has a stickiness about it, one that resists coming unstuck even if someone in authority countenances it. That's the difference between a matter of morality and one of mere social convention, and [some] believe kids feel it innately."

You cannot force people to follow directions they deem arbitrary. more inside

9 Most Badass Bible Verses (Not safe to read while drinking anything)If the Bible had been written by King Leonidas and the rest of the Spartans from 300, it would probably read pretty much the same as it does now. It turns out, the Bible is already chock full of ass kicking.

Study finds pictures of eyes may deter crime. The experiment, which gained global media attention, found that people put nearly three times as much money into a unsupervised coffee room cash collection box when they were being watched by a pair of eyes on a poster. more inside