Who needs topsoil anyway?

Mouse steals leopard's lunch. Leopard is puzzled.

The Fox was a folk hero who made a positive environmentalist impact while causing fear in the halls of corporate polluters. Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Royko, syndicated columnist for The Chicago Daily News, was one of many who denied that The Fox was an eco-terrorist. Royko's FBI file was 86 pages long, so not everyone agreed. more inside

Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings.

I will not read your fucking script. Really. I will not read it on a dare I will not read it for a scare

Hospital food bingo , and heeeere's your host - Traction Man!

Big breakfast.

Moar Yodeling Cats. They're back and better than ever.

Big fleet.

Magic Lanterns and other Optical Toys Richard Balzer's collection of pre-cinema visual entertainment devices. more inside

Animals with Lightsabers.

Spacecraft 'could surf gravitational tubes' to make solar travel more efficient. "Gravitational corridors could help spacecraft travel the solar system like ships carried on ocean currents, making longer and cheaper journeys possible, it has been claimed."

At last. Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing and recognition of the appalling way he was treated....Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly.

Libya's Qaddafi Threatens Switzerland... with a UN Resolution dissolving the country. (1) The UN rejected it immediately (See? They do make SOME sense there.) (2) It apparently is the latest escalation of an incident in which the dictator's son was arrested in Geneva for assaulting his own servants. (3) Hey, it's a lot more civilized than a lot of things he could do... Oh, that Daffy Qaddafi...

IKEA chánges fönt. From Futura to Verdana. And it gets noticed. Petitions to change it back are started. IKEA is bemused.

Has the legendary Bigfoot been photographed? - YouTube vid with audio - article originally here. more inside

Level 26: a revolution in publishing?

Vauban - Between 1667 and 1707, Vauban upgraded the fortifications of around 300 cities in France, and some of his finest work is on the World Heritage list.

A new species of giant rat has been discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.

Farouk al-Kasim arrived in Norway in 1968 (the story from the day of his arrival in Norway is recounted in the article, and the stuff of legends) and would end up helping guide Norway into responsibly managing its oil reserves. more inside