Earth Hour 2008: turn your lights off, you bum! Earth Hour, conceived in Australia in 2005, has become a worldwide event with (woo) over 20 cities officially taking part. It's a chance to show your commitment to climate change and sustainable energy, or, you know, something along those lines. Christchurch will be the first to switch off at 8pm tonight, and San Francisco the last, 20 hours later. more inside

Drum machine robot (a video of a robot)

GraphJam

Ragtime, Limericks & Fibonacci Hardly mainstream knowledge, but bloody interesting, if you're interested in that kind of thing.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: A weekly podcast featuring puppet versions of the Johns, a song and video from their new children's album Here Come the 123s! and a second song from one of their previous albums! This is a very descriptive post!

Saturn moon reveals organic matter. Sign of life, comet-like origin or bombardment?

Does the Human Brain Possess Potential “Super Powers”?

'Fat Bandit' believed to be fat, not wearing a fat-suit.

Gerd Ludwig photography Striking and disturbing photos of pollution and its effects in the former Soviet union. (WARNING: dying baby photo) via digg more inside

Bead Me Up, Scotty - a crafty take on Star Trek. more inside

The peace symbol is fifty years old. It was originally created as the logo for CND by wartime conscientious objector Gerald Holtom.

You don't see one of those every day Musical instruments.

A Brief History of the Home Video Game Console From Odyssey to Wii

Curious George: not a nymphomaniac but a compulsive liar. Visiting this thread on the mother ship this morning got me thinking -- who among you saw Ally Sheedy 's transformation in The Breakfast Club as a good thing? Who among you was disappointed by it? (It is interesting to note that she didn't go for such a make-over in real life, but whatever.) Was it a sell-out? Did they all just buy into the stereotypes they just destroyed? How do you see it now, as compared to then?

Japan's internet group suicide problem.

The Asylum- Bringing you the Mockbusters you crave! From the giddy tech thrills of Transmorphers to the adrenaline pumping mysteries of The DaVinci Treasure, we've got it all! Crave a little creature on creature action but don't want to pay HIGH HOLLYWOOD PRICES? Let me suggest Alien Vs. Hunter, or AVH as we like to call it. You kids going crazy for snakes on some sort of transportation? We can do that, too- Bang! Snakes on a Train! Just like that Sam Jackson picture, only better cause it's on a train. more inside

'Mean Spirited' Goat kills Pastor - an angry goat, probably looking something like this one, in the words of the police 'just went berserk' and attacked and killed an elderly Christian Ecclesiastical official in Tennessee, USA. more inside

<b>Curious George:</b> A very Good Year? Murder? Wine? CATACOMBS??? more inside

How did humans evolve a brain that supports language? - a post from Babel's Dawn blog discussing the events of the Evolang* conference in Barcelona, which apparently signals the end of Chomsky's Generative grammar theory as an explanation of human language evolution.

Let's Talk - picture by Polish photographer Marcin Nawrocki