Pet Food Recall This is probably just for USian pets, but Menu Foods Income Fund, which is apparently the name of a pet food manufacturer that contracts for many different brands has recalled a large number of dog & cat foods. Visit the list to make sure you don't have any in your pantry. This is also probably as good a time as any to remind you that your dog wants steak.

Japanese Toilet Training Video [Kinda NSFW, youtube] There are no words.

Image*After. Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. more inside

Toasty little toddlers And it's true. It's really, really TRUE! more inside

The Dark Ages are history, man. Google video about a book. more inside

Sand Fantasy by Ilana Yahav (main link youtube)

Todd Rundgren is one of us. When he set about releasing a video for his beautiful song Change Myself, back in the early nineties, he pulled out his Amiga (Ten Amigas actually) and made the video himself. Modelling, animating, on his big bed of Commodore Amigas.

Portraits of Violence: The Gangs of Port Moresby and Suicide Bombers in Gaza. Essay.

MacQuarium. Macquarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuarium. MacQuariums.

Rumspringa When she turned 17, she started her rumspringa -- the Amish rite of passage in which young adults are allowed to dabble in the indiscretions of our world before officially joining the church. "It just means you can do whatever Yanks do," Tina says. "Not everyone drinks alcohol. Some people just drink Coke and play volleyball." . . . She quickly grew a tiny collection of T-shirts and eye shadow, learning to drink by the six-pack until dawn and memorizing Eminem's entire discography. She even bought a cell phone, which her parents still don't know about. more inside

Rediculous

"Rooney Shoots, Jesus Saves" No British churchyard is complete without a """witty""" advertising slogan with some punning word play encouraging non-believers to step inside ... Finally the 'Church Poster of the Year competition' has been launched to celebrate this quaint high-street art form. C'mon Monkeys what's the best one you've seen?

Chickenhawks. Know your enemy.

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