I am the spirit of dark and lonely water more inside

The 2006 Olympics begin Friday. The internets have already come up with the Olympic drinking games, so let's go! (News is already coming out: the Spanish Olympic team has lost their luggage, and the New Zealand team has had their luggage stolen.) more inside

Lunchtime Quickies. A selection of true love and sex confessions from Eye's annual love and sex guide. (As if you need a guide, heh heh.) Feel free to rip off stories for your upcoming novel or screenplay. [possibly NSFW] Enjoy.

zillow.com Free, Instant Valuations and Data for 60,000,000+ Homes more inside

Jure Robes literally takes cycling to insane lengths. Welcome to the world of ultra-endurance cycling, where riders cram up to 10,000 calories per day into their bodies, ride further than the Tour de France in a week and finish events being unable to turn a key without using two hands. more inside

Shotcodes

When Litter Bugs Attack: Canadian rage, caught on camera. more inside

Have you seen this man?

Craigslist sued over housing ad bias A Chicago fair housing group has sued ... Craigslist for ... publishing discriminatory advertisements. more inside

Curious George: Domain Renewal Has anyone had a domain expire? Did you get it back? If so, how? more inside

Foul death prevented, not by strangling the chicken, but blowing it. more inside

Alan J. Shalleck, co-author of Curious George, found dead.

Ooops. How guilty would you feel? "This is not what I wanted to happen." Chalk one up to the laws of unintended consequences.

Justifications of genocide by Savitri Devi on flawlesslogic.com - don't let any names fool you here. Note the impact of the social climate on her 15 year old Bengali servant and his willingness to believe what older kids tell him - not your average Hitler Youth. [WARNING: NSFW - RACIST PROPAGANDA SITE] more inside

Prozac babies. (redux) Prozac is a completely honest, good, and rightly drug that would never do anything untoward to you. Honest.

Curious George: moving past point-and-click I own a Canon A40 Powershot and I'm thinking about spending some money to take a greater variety of photos. more inside

Furious George. Win98 problem -- I tried to keep from posting here. more inside

Worst. Weatherman. Ever. Wow.

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine A searchable archive of folk medicine remedies. The entries are spare-looking, but the archive as a whole is a nice indicator of how far medical treatment has come. My personal favorites.

Iranian Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons A prominent Iranian newspaper said Tuesday it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. more inside