Another 5 ways to hustle free drinks Try these bets and you'll never have to pay for another drink again! This is a follow up to the Top 5 ways to hustle free drinks blog post that circulated around the internet a month ago.

LMNOPUZ is a collaborative, online crossword puzzle. I think it's gonna take them awhile to work out the bugs (it times out a lot and has occasional glitches), but what a killer app!

How to fly hassle-free with sex toys. If you're one of the 500,000 (half a million!) people traveling to San Francisco for this year's Pride Parade, before you pack your one suitcase of sweaters and hot pants (you'll need both) and your five suitcases of sex toys, think about the TSA for a minute. (Ugh, not like that.) Sure, uniforms are hot, and some of you may have those nonconsensual cavity-search fantasies rarin' to go, but save your fetishes for Pink Saturday and pack your sex toys with care. Otherwise, be prepared to have your expensive toy collection ripped apart by security dogs and your favorite dick detonated by the feds. Imagine arriving and having to explain, "Honey, they blew up the Ballsy Jeff Stryker 10-inch."

Coal Fire Burns Beneath Town Since 1962 The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania is all but abandonded now. 46 years ago, a carelessly set garbage fire set a vein of coal in the mines below the town on fire. more inside

The problem of man boobs.

"Gold Farmers": video with associated links. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but this, the developmental speed of the internet from social appendage towards full corpus, initially surprises me.

BBC headline: "FBI tries to fight zombie hordes" This made me really happy just now, despite the less-than-exiting contents of the article.

Ebay cuts all advertising with Google "San Jose's eBay cut its advertising Monday shortly after Google unveiled plans for a party in Boston to hawk its online payment service, Google Checkout. Attendees of eBay's user conference, eBay Live, which starts today, were all invited for free drinks, food and massages." From Article

Flute Hero

Sorry, gotta go - convincing sound files for when you really, really want to end that pesky call. Takes me back to the old days when my mother, talking on a black rotary dial phone, would frantically make doorbell pushing motions to us kidlets so she could escape a boring call. I like "My carriage is here".

Today is "Blog Like it's the End of the World" Day. The "blogosphere" (I hate that word, even though it was on The Daily Show) is blogging about some weird events. It almost sounds like the undead are walking. more inside

A 19th-century weapon was found in a bowhead whale that was recently shot (by a similar weapon)by native Alaskan hunters. This was a legal hunt, since the whale hunt quotas for native people in Alaska and Russia were recently renewed for five years. more inside

Better dead than red? - gingerism threatens carrot-tops. (Yes, carrot tops are green, but try telling non-reds that.) more inside

Exploring the mind-body orgasm. Q: Do you think there might come a time when orgasms really get detached from the genitals? A: It's happening right now. People have described orgasms through imagery, nose orgasms, knee orgasms.

17 Foods to Try Before You Die (Just because trying them afterwards is so tacky). Let the controversy begin.

Rome Reborn. Architects, archeologists and computer nerds have spent ten years coming up with a 3D real-time computer simulation of Rome in the time of Constantine, when it was the Greatest City in the Universe. Zigzactly! Ferpectly right!

The art outlaws of East L.A. Long before flash mobs, Gamboa began perfecting the practice of the spontaneous art action when he and three other East L.A. artists formed the venerated avant-garde performance group known as Asco, named after the Spanish word for “nausea.” Here you had, in the middle of the 1970s, four style-conscious art jesters — three men, one woman — cavorting in outrageous outfits around the streets and empty lots of East L.A., making a scene, actions sprinkled with cutting social commentary, then disappearing. A Dada daydream in Chicanoville, USA.

NYC Short Notice Meetup? Got some big apple biz tomorrow. Who's free for a beer after? more inside

9 ways to simulate a panic attack. YouTube starring my favorite Muppet, Grover.

This ain't no disco (photos of creative workspace)