Cat Yodeling My wife made me post this.

Are Men Smarter than Women?

Do blind people prefer blondes? This Beeb magazine article was insightful for me. more inside

The Ten Doctors , a webcomic romp through time and space featuring all 10 incarnations of Doctor Who and all your favourite companions and villains, ended today after 247 pages, a near-superhuman achievement by Rich of Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic fame.

Notfertiti - a modern fake or an ancient portrayal of Queen Nefertiti?

What kind of battery should you wish for? The boring old matter anti-matter E equals M C squared kind? OR the pulling atoms apart kind?

A collection of medical instruments . The silver plated ear trumpet is quite something. As is the nipple shield. more inside

Coffee or ... (SLYT) more inside

PARO - the therapeutic robot baby seal. (and an entirely unrelated warning)

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild - As well as establishing a private zoological museum at Tring, Rothschild also established the edible dormouse or Glis glis. He was a big fan of the cassowary and author of Birds of Laysan.

"I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels".

What's next for Willem Dafoe? After his role in Lars Von Trier's AntiChrist the edgy actor has again exerted his penchant for imponderables. The recent screening at Cannes evoked violent reactions from armchair aesthetes in response to disjunctions of sexuality. The weighing of losses? Could that be the message intended? I haven't seen this yet, but expect it will put me well outside my comfort zone. more inside

A Field Guide to Highway Interchanges: Part 1 and Part 2. Wow.

Curious George: Windows vs. Mac It's time for a new computer and I am seriously torn... If Windows, what kind of machine? Is Mac really worth the extra $$$? more inside

Transit duration: 0.8s Transit bandwidth on Earth: 5.6 km. Altitude: 600 km. Speed: 7 km/s (25000 km/h). Length of Atlantis : 35m, length of Hubble : 13m. via

Hopefully, nobody we know... It's the weekend, ok?

A GQ article on Donald Rumsfeld . The throw up in your mouth interesting bit is the dozen or so cover sheets for the daily Iraq War intelligence briefing. Each with its own passage from the bible. The slide show on the main link isn't working for me, but you can see them by incrementing the image numbers in the URL of the second link. more inside

There's a zombie on your lawn! Plants vs Zombies. It's a very cute, horribly addictive game. Download for an hour of free play, or create your zombified avatar on their website. If, like me, you are hooked after half an hour, you can get it for $10US from here. Hopefully in the demo version you get to see the Michael Jackson zombie.

Awkward. Awkwaaaard more inside

Unemployment got you down? If you already have a prescription for Viagra, and then lose your job, Pfizer will keep your head up high for a whole year, FREE!