Creeptastic! Your Friday Flash Fun for today

Cities sans signage make for the creepy look. [via]

Man buried alive saved by positive thinking, Buddhist meditation, and air trapped in his hat - 'Doctors were astounded, saying that a person could normally not live longer than five minutes in a similar sealed space. One local doctor said: “It’s a miracle that he’s alive after being buried for two hours.”'

Who knew that spreadsheets, flickr, and music would work so well together? You've probably already seen LivePlasma, which shows how musicians influence each other. Now you can get into their brains! Venn diagrams, bar graphs, and pie charts show the process that some of the world's greatest songwriters use when they agonize while writing lyrics. more inside

Sex researchers say: Under 3 too short, over 13 too long.... minutes, I mean minutes!!!!

Did chimp and human ancestors interbreed? - The earliest known ancestors of modern humans might have reproduced with early chimpanzees to create a hybrid species, a new genetic analysis suggests. Fundies are gonna love this.

Rumours that Patrick Swayze has only 5 weeks to live. more inside

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the world's first major virus for Macs. Video link here. Sheer I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that genius. Pranksters ahoy!

truck spills What a mess! WARNING - some involve animal deaths. more inside

Henry the Hexapus of Blackpool - picture here.

titlepage passionate conversations about books

Curious George: Uphill Both Ways? Where did the expression come from that goes something like, "When I was a kid, we had to walk barefoot to school in the snow, and it was uphill both ways!"? more inside

Top 15 Misconceptions about Evolution

How to spot a Tagger In most cases, the difference between graffiti being art or a crime is PERMISSION! via.

it's ok, you're safe now. more inside

65th Pictures of the year. Some heartbreaking. Others...

Dating culture is dead - instead, young New Zealand women are regularly getting drunk and cruising around in packs looking for men to have sex with. 'Nuff said. Present company excepted, of course.

...when they pry my cold, dead fingers off my clock's pendulum. I refuse to feel old until Win2x is in the dustbin.

Kevin Budden passed away on 29 July, 1950. He died from the venom of a taipan that he was trying to capture alive so that an anti-venom could be developed. Foolish adventurer or or self sacrificing hero? The debate continues 58 years on....

Curious George: Irrational Fears. I was discussing irrational fears today with a friend. She mentioned that she has an irrational fear of holding a newborn baby and accidentally pushing her fingers right through into its head, since she knows the skull is still relatively soft. I admitted that I have an fear that anyone coming towards me on a bicycle is going to deliberately swerve into me and hit me, so I tend to freak out silently in such situations. So now I'm curious, Monkeys o' Mine, what are your irrational fears?