Dear diary, you make me sic. Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. “In fact, you’re probably much better off if you don’t write anything at all."
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Dog Bites Shoots Man Take that, jerko!

Tell it like it is, George (14 MB .mov file). more inside

The oldest showgirl in Vegas is laying down the boa She's been dancing at Bally's since 1981--longer than most of her fellow dancers have been alive. But now Linda Green has been forced to "kick off her 5-inch heels and shed her 25-pound headress."

This is why I hate goddamn hippies via mefi archives

An online Scottish dictionary. And here all this time, I thought they were just speaking heavily accented English.

i'M iMpressed Steve Jobs' companies (Apple and Pixar) place 1st and 3rd as Senior Executives name the greatest iNovators of Past 75 Years in a BusinessWeek survey. "...Microsoft, fell short to Steve Jobs' Apple as the most innovative company (32 percent and 35 percent, respectively). Pixar, where Jobs is also president, came in a close third at 31 percent." more inside

YE MONK TRIFLE

The Beaufort Wind Scale Invented in 1806, and its descriptions are strangely touching.

HUGE Aussie urban mural Wow! Now THAT's a mural!!!

National ID Card Get Ready to register!... For your National ID card. This congressman is giving us fair warning. Canada's working on one... Oh, wait we already have one? I feel safer already. more inside

Curious George: Manga for Kids & Grown-ups Together My 7 year old son reads to me for 20 minutes each night as homework. I'm looking for suggestions on Manga titles that would be appropriate for him, but that I would also enjoy. more inside

Online Boggle Keeping your mind active yet Friday productivity down. Waaay down.

He freaking made it out alive

iceberg lettuce will be the death of us all.

Dokaka is a Japanese artist who does all-vocal covers of songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" among others. Using only his mouth, he re-creates each song bit by bit. Impressive if not a bit bizarre.

The Likudization of the world
Naomi Klein writes a comment piece in Canada's Globe and Mail about the adoption by Russia of Israel's ruling party's way of looking at terrorism. more inside

Curious George: You provide an expiration date with your credit card number. The CC you provided has now expired. The company you gave this information to changes the expiration date that you provided and charges your card. Is this legal? Ethical? What are the ramifications for this vendor? Any experts in the house?

mooncruise is an online magazine featuring and promoting photographers and musicians. It is also a Flash-eriffic, bandwidth-sucking behemoth with a lot of pretty pictures, some of which are NSFW. But is it worth it? I think so. [via Design is Kinky]

Yellow tomato causes legal dillema - How long would I get for a grape tomato?