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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.

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