Another Sad Day in Iraq 85 More dead. Students most of them. I am speechless. When will it stop?

Dangerously addictive flash game. Tower Defense.
Some strategic advice courtesy of mefi.

FDLS Here's some news from the Fundamentalist Mormons. And some more. more inside

The Edge project (Flash) of the Zoological Society of London has produced a prioritised list of endangered animals, based on how unusual and how threatened they are. You might want to browse the top 100. I'm afraid I may have nightmares about the Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat.

Lady bug versus Spider

Happy MLK Day Audio of Martin Luther King speech from 1965 at Temple Israel in Hollywood. Special treat for American monkeys on MLK day (which it still happens to be over here). Enjoy. via Good

*slings girl and runs*

RandomWebsite.Com! How often do you find yourself on the internet looking at the same boring pages? You know there is something out there but you don't know where to look!!

Suck it up! more inside

Manakins are small jungle birds whose males make clicking and humming noises with their wings as part of an elaborate courtship ritual. But it's their smokin' dance moves that really get the ladies.

The UK is 300 years old on 16 January. The signature of the Act of Union was commemorated at the time by the planting of some trees which still survive. Nothing much by way of celebration seems to have been planned this time round, apart from a commemorative £2 coin. The Union may not, in fact, survive much longer, as support for Scottish independence slowly grows.Gordon Brown has been trying to combat the drift towards separation, but a recent poll showed 52% of Scots in favour of independence. 59% of English voters were in favour.

Transforming sewage sludge into Milorganite fertilizer Solar energy would provide nearly all of the electrical power needed to transform sewage sludge into Milorganite fertilizer at the Jones Island wastewater treatment plant, under a proposal by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. The Milorganite plant would become nearly 100% self-sufficient for electrical needs, depending on cloud cover, if the solar panels are installed,

How NSA Access was built into Windows A MS Windows computer's security and encryption software is controlled by a program that has two keys. One is Microsoft's and another for the US National Security Agency. Anyone previously heard of this?

Anti Cancer Drugs to be produced from eggs laid by genetically modified Chickens. more inside

Eiffel Tower made of matches. (Found on the always... eh... interesting http://englishrussia.com/.)

Henry VIII's songs, poems, and speeches. Just one small part of Luminarium, a splendid anthology of eng. lit from medieval to Restoration.

Barndoor Logo Flyers

Michael Brecker dead Great tenor player Michael Brecker has died of leukaemia at 57. He played sessions almost beyond number, including great recordings with Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, Paul Simon, and the Average White Band, as well as with his brother Randy in the Brecker Brothers. Happy trails, Mr Brecker.

Furious George. Why can't I find a sound file of the infamous Verizon ad? more inside

Behind the raging horseshoe falls of Niagara there lurks a dormant monster, a century old tunnel painstakingly laid brick by brick. A tale of urban exploration in gloriously purple prose.