Why Americans Have Swallowed an Official Conspiracy Theory More Full of Holes Than Swiss Cheese

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Nabokov wanted his final, unfinished work destroyed. 'It's a decision that has fallen to his sole surviving heir (and translator), Dmitri Nabokov, now 73. Dmitri has been torn for years between his father's unequivocal request and the demands of the literary world to view the final fragment of his father's genius, a manuscript known as The Original of Laura. Should Dmitri defy his father's wishes for the sake of "posterity"?'

We Are Borg This article is the latest on a post put here in May of '04 "I know. I've done the research" - T. Cruise. Love that io9 website!

Flour sacks, feed sacks, quilts, and collectors more inside

Lasagna Cat: Um... It's Garfield and uh... videos. And musical hits from the '80s, of course.

The Mondo Spider - chasing little old ladies across the street was never more enjoyable. Here it is in action. more inside

Library of Congress posts 3000+ pictures on Flickr "Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist."

The Atlas Archives - A history of the short-lived comics publisher, Atlas/Seaboard (1974-1975)

The milestone threads Since we're slow today, I give you some glimpses at MonkeyFilter history. They're not our best, threads, by far, but they were milestones: 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, . Added bonus: 666.

Batman - a comic

Peter Russell Clark [warning: expletives] every mum's darling, promoting cheese and eggs.

Anonymous, George: Will the TSA DOA you for a DUI? Let's say a person has a several-years-old warrant out for failure to complete requirements associated with a DUI. Is that person going to run into trouble while checking onto a plane for a domestic flight? Do they check for such things before a flight?

Historic Audio Clips in MP3 Format.

80 million tiny images. English language nouns. Sorted. via

Two bits! . Space money. Plastic, of course.

Plantage is a gorgeous flash video created for Danish music group Under Byen by Amanita Design, who brought us Samorost. This and other cool videos found at Blue Tea.

Happy Smurfday! The Smurfs kick off their 50th anniversarsmurf this year, with a new tv series, 3D movie, and of course, comics. It'll be just smurfy! more inside

Pulp Fiction by Thomas Allen

The Electric Arc Radio Show Behold: Minneapolis' audio-only answer to the thriving local indy-film scene! It's current, (and it's on MPR's "the current."), it's more mind's-eye theater. more inside