HAY GUYS SOME PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE AWAY THE BEST KEY ON THE KEYBOARD DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT (HINT: IT'S WHAT JESUS WOULD DO IF HE WAS AWESOME) YEAH THAT'S RIGHT IT'S THE CAPS LOCK KEY AND THIS IS ITS MOST SACRED DAY. more inside

Curious George: Indian wedding present protocol What does one get as a wedding gift for an Indian friend and co-worker? American-style nuptual gifting is generally solved with a "where are they registered?" question to a member of the bridal party. I don't know anybody in the party to which this question could be put, but we're friendly enough I'd like to get them something. more inside

The Great War made even GREATER! Some chaps have come up with this horrid little number, wherein you command some Tommies in the trenches. Accurately enough, scores of men are lost before you learn the simplest of lessons, like "stay in the trench". Right. Let's get this nasty business with the Kaiser all sorted, show him wot's wot, and we can all be home in time for Christmas and sticky pudding! Up we go, men! [Taken from the bloody Huns over on their Blue Danube.][Some sort of Prussian Flash-business, I expect.]

Drive-thru voting. For when you want to exercise your franchise and throw the bums out, but not get your fat ass out of the car to do it. more inside

A more fearsome saber-toothed cat.

40 Creative Lamp Designs (via StumbleUpon) more inside

Lucian Freud's portrait of Francis Bacon sold today for rather less than expected. Bacon painted Freud many times. The Tate has an interactive exhibition on Bacon. Here's some Freud to balance things a bit.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Boathouse: a Case Study in the Ontology of Art. In 2000, three rowers from Buffalo's West Side Rowing Club sought the approval of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for the construction of Wright's design for a boathouse, and it was realized last year. But a new Frank Lloyd Wright building raises some interesting questions -- when is it a FLW building, and when is it a reasonable facsimile thereof? What is needed to make a building a FLW? more inside

Substitutes Can let you down Quicker Than a Strapless gown Burma-Shave more inside

I had no idea who the other medallist was. (Or why there was one left handed salute and one right handed). more inside

Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.....

NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-FLAVOR THYME CUBE (via MetaChat)

Tears for Levi Stubbs. The singer is dead at 72.

Digital artist Jason Feeny develops works of "candy colored madness".

CopyPasteCharacter. Because sometimes you need to copy and paste characters™.

Yes We Carve

Help keep your hitchin' available for all Californians!

Monkeys move paralysed muscles with their minds: Sending brain signals through electrodes to a paralysed wrist muscle restores movement. [Via]

Broken Koans and other Zen debris Reader-submitted koans, some of which are great, some which are...eh.

Faecal Matter On Public Transport. The Facts! more inside