Using Second Life to treat agoraphobia. "Meet Roberto, quite an eye-catching avatar who is one of the more interesting characters that can be found frequenting random areas of the Second Life world...Roberto Salvatierra...is a medical student from San Jose, Costa Rica, who suffers from the fear of open places and being out in public that is known as agoraphobia...his main reason for making his avatar resemble his real-life image as closely as possible was to help him in curing his affliction."

Curious George: Hope me find the name of a book Gettin' breezy in here more inside

Cows with guns! Go ahead, pretend you don't like it, pretend you didn't laugh, but if you don't wait for the chickens, don't come crying to me about it!

They Got Older, Too ...and in theory, wiser. We asked the pop icons you grew up with what they've learned about money. Bill Shatner, Cheryl Tiegs, Ron Howard, Denzel Washington, James Taylor and more with a sentence or two on what they've learned about money. via linkfilter

Curious George: Teacher tributes The recent, unexpected death of the favourite tutor of my college years, eminent Shakespearean A. D. Nuttall, prompts me to ask: who are the teachers who helped shape your life? Did they guide you in a subject that would become your life's work? Offer understanding during a difficult time? Or were they just generally cool and inspiring? Post your tales here.

Put Down The Duckie A classic, star-studded musical number to put a smile on your face. [YOUTUBE, MUPPETS!, SINGING] more inside

A million penguins - writing a novel by wiki. Join in! Via spurgeonblog more inside

World Press Photo Awards 2007. The winner, and a few of my favourites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. more inside

The Truth About Beauty. "Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is."

Doomsday vault design unveiled. The Svalbard International Seed Vault, built into the natural refrigeration of the permafrost in Arctic Norway, will safeguard the means to resurrect the planet's agriculture - in case it all goes to hell in a handbasket. more inside

HAVIDOL: When More Is Not Enough. Via.

Anna Nicole Smith is dead. She was found unresponsive in her hotel room in Florida and pronounced dead at a local hospital.

2006 Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll. more inside

I'm confused... so how old am I exactly?

Curious George: Make Windows Pretty Now! I'm sick of the look of Windows and want to make it pretty and/or shiny. Or something. I use Style XP on one machine, but I paid for that years ago and there's got to be some excellentness out there in free, opensource glory. What do you use? See also the Desktop thread. more inside

Lloyd? Is that you? Searching for some information on Lloyd Moseby, I found what looks to be his myspace page. more inside

Guinea-Bissau discovers that Whoopi Goldberg is their most famous daughter. "Come to visit us!" they ask. more inside

Steve Jobs wants to end copy protection for online music. This could be controversial, eh?

It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact.

MetaMix! In case you missed my announcement on MeFi, I just launched MetaMix, a forum for MeFi, MeCha, and MoFi members to trade mixtapes and talk about music. Sign up with your MeFi, MeCha, or MoFi username and join the fun!