Evidence for the decay of dark matter? The Tevatron particle accelerator at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, has produced particles that the team was unable to explain by the known laws of physics: far more muons were created than were predicted from the collision of protons and anti-protons. More crucially, some of these muons seem to have been created OUTSIDE of the horizon of the metal beam pipe: leaving no trace inside. As a possible explanation, Weiner and Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and colleagues have developed a theory of dark matter that posits dark matter particles that interact among themselves by exchanging "force-carrying" particles with a mass of about 1 gigaelectronvolts. Moreover, the new CDF muons appear to have come from the decay of a particle with a mass of about 1 GeV. So was this a particle of dark matter? more inside

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Unofficial Official America 2008 Election Wrap-Up. In a few hours, this interminable election will be over, and we can all go back to our regular lives, with late-nite talk show hosts joking only about Paris Hilton, SNL returning to its natural state of suck, and peace restored to the land. Or, in the alternative, whitey’s gonna steal the election and there’ll be all these race riots and stuff. Either way. Whatever. We need a place to discuss our last-minute wild predictions and baseless paranoid accusations, and this might as well be it. Happy Election Day, everybody! What a long, strange trip it's been, so far.

Yma Sumac, the "Peruvian Songbird" and "Nightingale of the Andes", is dead at 86.

Roll Up! Roll Up! See The Human Marvels! A surprisingly humane site looking at all manner of human shapes and sizes... more inside

Factory Balls And Factory Balls 2!

The macabre art of Kris Kuksi.

Museum of Bags and Purses. Shoe Museum. Hat Museum. Fan Museum 1, 2, 3. Hanky Museum.

San Francisco has approved Proposition R to be on the ballot. What's Proposition R? A move to change the name of the city's Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W Bush Sewage Plant. Reaction has been mixed, both from Bush supporters to supporters of the sewage plant. Come on, Bay monkeys -- vote early, vote often!

If you can't say something nice try anyway. Voters are asked to come up with something nice to say about the candidate they aren't voting for. Can we give it a try? more inside

Laura Gainey report published. The report into Laura Gainey's death is out. Laura was the daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey, a formerly-troubled woman who turned her life around, thanks in part to her time aboard the tall ship Picton Castle. In 2006, she was swept off deck, and lost at sea. more inside

CHOMP! nom nom nom

If Mos Def Were President, things would be better. more inside

I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna move to Canada with my gay friends so I can drink coffee over the Sunday New York Times before watching rugby. So there! full list

The Google Image Search Blog. Does what it says on the tin. Unfortunately, no activity for about two years, but still.

I love waiting for your flash to load For when you need to commmunicate, and just don't have the words to say it.

Forestry Commission scraps Magna Carta right to collect woods from forests. The Forestry Commission of Great Britain is phasing out licences for people to gather firewood from the forests, an almost 800-year-old right which was established in 1217 in the Magna Carta's companion document, the Charter of the Forest (previously on MeFi). [Via]

It's harder to get things wrong at 29,970 words per second.

Foreclosure Epidemics: West Nile Virus Tracks Housing Crisis.